Lai Chun-Hin (center), Prof. Robin Ma (left) and former Department Head Prof. Matthew Yuan (right) at the IMechE Hong Kong annual dinner on May 9, 2024
Realizing a More Affordable and Functional Robotic Hand
Prof. Shen Shaojie (third right), his current PhD students Jiang Chenxing (first author, second right), Liu Peize (first left) and Yu Zehuan (second left), and former PhD student Dr. Zhou Boyu (third left) received an IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2024
Prof. Shen Shaojie (first left) and his two former PhD students, Dr. Zhou Boyu (second left) and Dr. Xu Hao (second right), received the 2024 IEEE Transactions on Robotics King-Sun Fu Memorial Best Paper Award, which recognizes the best paper published annually in the IEEE Transactions on Robotics.
The HKUST ROV Team won their 12th straight championship in the Hong Kong Regional Contest of the MATE International ROV Competition since they joined in 2011. They will head for the international competition in the US this June.
A joint undergraduate student team of five HKUST students and five HKUST(GZ) students won four awards at the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Tertiary Institution Innovation Project Invitational Competition on March 9, 2024.
Witnessed by the Secretary for Housing, Ms. Winnie Ho (back row, center), the Acting Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry, Ms. Lillian Cheong (back row, left), and the Chairman of the Board of the HKCRC, Dr. Shin Cheul Kim (back row, right); the Associate Director of the HKCRC, Dr. Liang Haobo (front row, right), and the Permanent Secretary for Housing/Director of Housing, Miss Rosanna Law (front row, left), signed the Memorandum of Understanding.
The “HKUST-ExxonMobil iSTEAM Program 2023 – Spider Robot STEAM Challenge” drew around 160 students and teachers from 19 primary and secondary schools to learn about STEAM, teamwork and leadership.
