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  • 4 papers accepted at MICCAI2024
    by admin on June 19, 2024 at 2:43 pm

    Congratulations to the following members (Long, Beilei, Yiming) for the papers accepted and to be presented by MICCAI2024 (accepted 858 out of 2771 papers this year, reaching an acceptance rate of 31%): Endo-4DGS: Endoscopic Monocular Scene Reconstruction with 4D Gaussian Splatting EndoUIC: […]

  • Team presentation and award at IPCAI2024
    by admin on June 19, 2024 at 2:21 pm

    Congratulations to Beilei and Mobarakl for the paper “Surgical-DINO: Adapter Learning of Foundation Models for Depth Estimation in Endoscopic Surgery, (Beilei Cui, Mobarakol Islam, Long Bai, Hongliang Ren) Shortlisted for competing for the IPCAI2024 Best Paper Award and long presentation at  […]

  • Dr Ren Won Young Researcher Award, CUHK
    by admin on June 16, 2024 at 1:11 pm

    Dr. Ren won the Young Researcher Award 2024, CUHK, Congratulations!   The Young Researcher Award is nominated annually by each Faculty to recognize young academic staff with exemplary research achievements. The Award consists of a plaque and an amount of HK$ I 00,000 in the form of a research […]

  • Chi Kit Won Creativity Award, CUHK Capstone Project Presentation Competition 2024
    by admin on May 18, 2024 at 2:49 pm

    Chi Kit received the Most Creativity Award at the CUHK Capstone Project Presentation Competition 2024 for his FYP work on enhancing autonomy in robotic surgery. Congratulations!     Continue reading

  • Team presentations and award at ICRA2024
    by admin on May 16, 2024 at 12:50 pm

    Congratulations to the following members for the papers accepted by ICRA2024 Japan and presentations at  ICRA2024: Chained Flexible Capsule Endoscope: Unraveling the Conundrum of Size Limitations and Functional Integration for Gastrointestinal Transitivity Magnetic-Guided Flexible Origami Robot […]

  • Team presentations at IJCAI 2023
    by admin on August 28, 2023 at 1:53 pm

    Congratulations to the following members for the presentations at  IJCAI2023 Macau, IJCAI2023 Symposium on Multimodal Reasoning – Techniques, Applications, and Challenges: Multimodal Reasoning and Language Prompting for Interactive Learning Assistant for Robotic Surgery. Gokul Kannan, […]

  • 6 papers presented at MICCAI2023
    by admin on July 11, 2023 at 12:29 pm

              Congratulations to the following members for the papers accepted and presented by MICCAI2023: Revisiting distillation for continual learning on visual question localized-answering in robotic surgery   L Bai, M Islam, H Ren* Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention […]

  • Team award at The 9th Hong Kong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition
    by admin on June 29, 2023 at 1:43 pm

    Our Team projects Skull mountable robot won awards at The 9th Hong Kong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, organized by Hong Kong New Generation Cultural Association, in Jun 2023! Third-place Award: Skull mountable robot Continue reading

  • Team presentations and award at ICRA2023
    by admin on June 6, 2023 at 1:03 pm

    Congratulations to the following members for the papers accepted by ICRA2023 and presentations at  ICRA2023: Surgical-VQLA: transformer with gated vision-language embedding for visual question localized-answering in robotic surgery L Bai, M Islam, L Seenivasan, H Ren* arXiv preprint […]

  • Team award at 48th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva
    by admin on April 30, 2023 at 2:09 pm

    Our Team (Ruoyi, Jiewen, et al..) project Vision-guided Fiberoptic Nasotracheal Intubation Robot won Silver Medal, at the 48th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva,  in April 2023! The project was also showcased at Continue reading

  • Dr Ren Won Healthy Longevity Catalyst Award 2022
    by admin on November 27, 2022 at 4:44 am

    Dr. Ren won the Healthy Longevity Catalyst Award (Hong Kong) 2022 with research on intragastric balloons. More information can be found at: https://healthylongevitychallenge.org/winners/swallowable-encapsuled-multi-stable-intragastric-balloons-for-obesity-treatment-semibot/ CUHK bags three wins at […]

  • 3 papers accepted by MICCAI2022
    by admin on June 3, 2022 at 3:06 am

    Congratulations to the following members for the papers accepted by MICCAI2022: An et al Rethinking Surgical Instrument Segmentation: A Background Image Can Be All You Need Lalith et al Surgical-VQA: Visual Question Answering in Surgical Scenes using Transformer Mengya et al Rethinking Surgical […]

  • Team awards at The 8th Hong Kong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition
    by admin on June 3, 2022 at 3:03 am

    Our Team projects Modular Parallel Robot and Magnetic Capsule won awards at The 8th Hong Kong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, organized by Hong Kong New Generation Cultural Association, on May 27-28, 2022! Third-place Award: Magnetic Capsule, Presented by Sishen […]

  • Team presentations at ICRA2022
    by admin on May 26, 2022 at 9:39 am

    Congratulations to the following members for the 3 papers accepted by ICRA2022 and presentations at  ICRA2022: Godwin: Chip-Less Real-Time Wireless Sensing of Endotracheal Intubation Tubes by Printing and Mounting Conformable Antenna Tag  Lalith: Global-Reasoned Multi-Task Learning Model for […]

  • Dr. Ren invited to talk at IEEE IMBioC 2022
    by admin on May 18, 2022 at 9:23 am

    Dr. Ren, together with Godwin, was invited to give a talk at IEEE IMBioC (International Microwave Biomedical Conference) 2022, on Kirigami Strain Sensors Using Conductive Trace and Radio Frequency Estimation for Robotics. Related webpages: http://www.nusri.cn/IMBioC2022/    Continue reading

  • Team awards at EMedic Global 2021
    by admin on November 21, 2021 at 3:11 pm

    Our Team projects Skull-bot and Magnetic Capsule won awards at EMedic Global 2021! Silver Award: Skull-bot Best Presentation Award: Skull-bot https://youtu.be/xrwjYkMsktA Technical Challenge Award: Magnetic Capsule  https://youtu.be/XxlTGHfyLeY Continue reading

  • Dr. Ren invited to talk at 2021 ISMR workshops
    by admin on November 17, 2021 at 7:35 am

    Dr. Ren was invited to give 2 talks at 2021 ISMR (International Symposium on Medical Robotics) workshops Talk 1: “Flexible Endoluminal Robotics with Minimal Invasiveness and Exposure” for workshop on “Model-based Design, Sensing, and Control of Continuum Manipulators and Robotic Flexible […]

  • Dr. Ren’s invited keynote speech at 2021 ICRA RoPat workshop on ‘Robot-Assisted Systems for Medical Training’
    by admin on June 1, 2021 at 11:41 am

    Dr. Ren was invited to give a keynote speech at the 2021 ICRA (International Conference on Robotics and Automation) RoPat workshop on ‘Robot-Assisted Systems for Medical Training’ Related webpage: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/morph-lab/events/ropat21-icra-workshop/ Surgical motion generation and […]

  • Dr. Ren invited to talk at 2021 ICEE workshop on Safeguarding Public Health During Infectious Disease Pandemics Using Medical Robotics, Wearable Technology, and AI
    by admin on May 17, 2021 at 7:15 am

    Dr. Ren was invited to talk at 2021 ICEE workshop on Safeguarding Public Health During Infectious Disease Pandemics Using Medical Robotics, Wearable Technology, and AI.  Related webpages: https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/2021-icee-workshop Pilot Study of Trans-oral Robotics to Meet the Minimal […]

  • Team presentations at pre-ICRA2021
    by admin on May 15, 2021 at 7:19 am

    Congratulations to the following members for the papers accepted by ICRA2021 and presentations at pre-ICRA2021: Menya Learning Domain Adaptation with Model Calibration for Surgical Report Generation in Robotic Surgery https://youtu.be/Eu-ryJ9OyTM Godwin Chip-Less Wireless Sensing of Origami […]

  • 7 papers accepted by ICRA2021 including 2 concurrently by RA-L
    by admin on March 25, 2021 at 8:47 am

    Congratulations to the following members for the papers accepted by ICRA2021 including 2 concurrently by RA-L: Xiao et al Magnetically-Connected Modular Reconfigurable Mini-Robotic System with Bilateral Isokinematic Mapping and Fast On-Site Assembly towards Minimally Invasive […]

  • Student award at the 2020 EMB Singapore Symposium student abstract competition
    by admin on October 10, 2020 at 2:44 am

    Congratulations to Kirthika, 2nd place winner, of the 2020 EMB Singapore Symposium student abstract competition! Related webpages: https://www.ieeesingapore.org/event/embs-symposium2020/ https://pacificyeah.wixsite.com/embcsg2020 Continue reading

  • Dr. Ren invited to talk at IEEE EMB Singapore Symposium 2020
    by admin on October 9, 2020 at 2:27 am

    Dr. Ren was invited to talk at IEEE EMB Singapore Symposium 2020 on Transluminal Robotics and Perception with Images.  Related webpages: https://www.ieeesingapore.org/event/embs-symposium2020/ https://pacificyeah.wixsite.com/embcsg2020 Continue reading

  • ICBME 2019 Special Symposium in Surgical Robotics
    by admin on December 12, 2019 at 9:19 pm

    ICBME 2019 Special Symposium on Surgical Robotics Organizing Chair: Hongliang Ren    Themes Computer-Assisted Surgery Flexible Robotics and navigation in Surgery Artificial Intelligence in Robotic Surgery Date: Dec 11, 2019, EA Speakers and Topics 1600 – 1615 Robotic Intervention Utilizing […]

  • Seminar by Prof Wei Gao of Caltech on Skin-Interfaced Wearable Biosensors for Personalized Healthcare
    by admin on December 10, 2019 at 9:34 pm

    A seminar on ‘Skin-Interfaced Wearable Biosensors for Personalized Healthcare’ was given by Prof. Wei Gao of Caltech. Abstract: The rising research interest in personalized medicine promises to revolutionize traditional medical practices. This presents a tremendous opportunity for developing […]

  • Skullbot and ACTORS showcased for ICBME & NUS Engineering Industry Day 2019
    by admin on December 9, 2019 at 9:41 pm

    Our team’s Skullbot and ACTORS robots were showcased for NUS Engineering Industry Day 2019 in conjunction with ICBME 2019.           Continue reading

  • Team project shortlisted for EMedic Global 2019
    by admin on December 9, 2019 at 3:34 pm

    Our Team projects RNOTES and Deep Needle were shortlisted for EMedic Global 2019 Continue reading

  • Team project Skullbot won best structure award for 2019 Global Innovation Design Competition of Medical Robotics
    by admin on December 9, 2019 at 1:37 pm

    Our Team projects Skullbot won the best structure award for 2019 Global Innovation Design Competition of Medical Robotics together with 50000RMB project fund. Continue reading

  • Best Paper Award from IEEE ROBIO 2019
    by admin on December 9, 2019 at 12:38 pm

    Our paper entitled “Biomimetic Stretchable Sensor Resembling Shar-Pei Crumples with 2D Materials towards Collaborative Robotic Minimally Invasive Procedures” (by Parita Sanghani, Catherine Jiayi Cai, Ting-Hsiang Chang, Benjamin Delecourt, Chwee Ming Lim, Po-Yen Chen, Hongliang Ren) was awarded […]

  • Dr Ren invited for ROBIO’19 Plenary talk
    by admin on December 8, 2019 at 3:25 pm

    Dr. Ren delivered a plenary talk at ROBIO’19, the 2019 International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, on the topic of “Proprioceptive Transluminal Robotics in Connection with Monkey King”. Continue reading

  • Seminar by Prof Dong-Soo Kwon on Medical Robot Systems for Laparoscopic, Endoscopic, Microscopic Surgeries
    by admin on November 11, 2019 at 3:29 pm

    A seminar on Medical Robot Systems for Laparoscopic, Endoscopic, Microscopic Surgeries was given by Prof. Dong-Soo Kwon from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).   Continue reading

  • Dr Ren delivered BDML’19 Plenary talk
    by admin on November 10, 2019 at 6:55 am

    Dr. Ren delivered a plenary talk at BDML’19, the 2019 International Conference on Big Data and Machine Learning, on the topic of Representation Learning in Multimodal Spatiotemporal Image-Guided Procedures, at Chengdu, China.   Continue reading

  • Dr. Ren invited to talk at IROS workshop
    by admin on November 8, 2019 at 3:13 pm

    Dr. Ren was invited to talk at IEEE IROS Workshop on Intelligent Robot Interaction with the Anatomy at Macau.  Continue reading

  • Dr Ren delivered ICSRIH’19 Keynote at Shanghai
    by admin on October 19, 2019 at 3:38 pm

    Dr. Ren delivered a keynote talk at ICSRIH’19, the 2019 International Conference on Surgical Robots and Intelligent Healthcare (ICMSR 2019), on the topic of Medical sensing and stretchable continuum, at Shanghai, China (Hosted by Shanghai Institute of Healthcare and Medical Science). Continue […]

  • Our team papers presented at MICCAI 2019
    by admin on October 17, 2019 at 2:42 am

    Our teamwork on surgical instrument tracking (led by Mobarakol) was selected for oral presentation at MICCAI 2019, Shenzhen.  Another paper on Robot-Assisted Surgery Using Multi-Domain CNN led by Qiu Liang was also selected for a workshop presentation and HTL journal publication. Key facts about […]

  • Team Award for TAP Project of Skullbot
    by admin on October 5, 2019 at 3:49 pm

    Our team project, Skullbot, lead by Xiao, Kirthika, Catherine and Drs Nic & Ren, won the TAP (technology acceleration program) award with 200,000, for the further project development in medical applications. Continue reading

  • Lab devices showcased at Innovfest Suzhou 2019
    by admin on September 26, 2019 at 9:04 am

    Our research prototypes on medical robotics were presented during  Innovfest Suzhou 2019 (http://www.innovfestchina.com/), which is a leading international Innovation and Entrepreneurship Festival in China.    Continue reading

  • Dr Ren delivered ICIRA’19 invited Keynote at Shenyang
    by admin on August 10, 2019 at 3:58 pm

    Dr. Ren delivered an invited keynote at ICIRA’19, the 2019 International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Automation, on the topic of Collaborative soft and continuum robots, at Shenyang, China. Continue reading

  • Dr. Ren invited to talk at ASME AIM workshop and our team paper won poster award
    by admin on July 8, 2019 at 3:39 pm

    Dr. Ren was invited to talk at ASME AIM workshop on soft and medical robotics at Hong Kong, in conjunction with The 2019 IEEE/ASME Flagship International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM 2019) and our teamwork won a poster award.  Continue reading

  • Gold Award and 2 Bronze Awards for BES Research Presentation at Biomedical Engineering Society 13th Scientific Meeting
    by admin on May 19, 2019 at 5:16 pm

    Our team members, Kirthika Senthil, and Catherine Cai won 1 Gold Award and 2 Bronze Awards for BES Research Presentation at Biomedical Engineering Society 13th Scientific Meeting, for the projects in sensing device for medical applications. Continue reading

  • Dr Ren delivered ICMSR’19 plenary talk
    by admin on May 5, 2019 at 4:53 pm

    Dr. Ren delivered A plenary talk at ICMSR’19, the 5th International Conference on Mechatronics System and Robots (ICMSR 2019), on the topic of Multi-modality medical sensing based intelligent theranostics. Continue reading

  • Dr. Ren received the ICBHI Young Investigator Award
    by admin on April 21, 2019 at 5:05 pm

    Dr. Ren received the Young Investigator award cum best paper award during ICBHI2019, International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics 2019, in Taipei City, for the research in smart surgical robotics. Continue reading

  • Lab paper presented at ROBOSOFT2019
    by admin on April 18, 2019 at 5:12 pm

    Our research publication on a flexible manipulator was presented during IEEE ROBOSOFT 2019 (IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), robosoft 2019, COEX, Seoul, Korea, April 14~18, 2019) and Dr. Ren served as the session chair for the soft manipulation session. Li, C.; Gu, X.; […]

  • Dr. Ren received the 2019 NUS Engineering Young Researcher Award
    by admin on March 23, 2019 at 5:07 am

    Dr. Ren received the 2019 NUS Engineering Young Researcher Award in March. Continue reading

  • Lab alumni received offers from the top universities
    by admin on March 8, 2019 at 6:13 am

    Our team members including undergraduate students received multiple PhD offers from Duke (Yifan), Hopkins (Jeya), Boston U (Athif). congratulations! Continue reading

  • Dr. Ren revisited Hopkins for LCSR talk
    by admin on February 18, 2019 at 6:06 am

    Dr. Ren revisited Hopkins for giving a seminar at the LCSR seminar series, which has been a tradition for more than a decade. Continue reading

  • Interstellar ECI workshop at NYC
    by admin on February 8, 2019 at 5:12 am

    Drs Y Suenaga, S-K Low, J Peters and H Ren (ECIs: Early Career Investigators) joined the workshop together again at NYAS, NYC, 2019. Continue reading

  • Team presented and finalisted at ROBIO2018
    by admin on December 19, 2018 at 7:52 am

    Our team members presented research publications and one of them won best paper finalist during IEEE ROBIO 2018 (International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics). OrumBot: Origami-based Deformable Robot Inspired By An Umbrella Structure, best paper finalist. Hritwick Banerjee, Sakshi Kakde, […]

  • Dr. Ren invited to talk at 5th symposium on cardio-bioengineering
    by admin on December 7, 2018 at 4:18 pm

    Dr. Ren was invited to talk at 5th symposium on cardio-bioengineering at NHCS (National Heart Centre Singapore) Continue reading

  • Interstellar ECI Mini-workshop at NUS
    by admin on November 26, 2018 at 10:36 am

    As partially supported by the Interstellar Early Career Investigator Program, JMED and NYAS, Drs Y Suenaga, S-K Low, and H Ren (ECIs) conducted a workshop together with Prof. Suda’s research team at YLLSOM, NUS.   Continue reading

  • Invited Keynote at ICIDM
    by admin on November 26, 2018 at 5:48 am

    Dr. Ren was invited to give a keynote talk at  International Conference on Innovative Design and Manufacturing ICIDM WHUT on design and measurements in medical robotics. Continue reading

  • Dr. Ren invited to talk at Asian Summit on Robotic Surgery (ASRS) 2018
    by admin on October 20, 2018 at 3:26 am

    Dr. Ren was invited to talk at The Asian Summit on Robotic Surgery (ASRS) 2018 for ACTORS in ENT surgery (Singapore). Continue reading

  • Dr. Ren invited to talk at IROS2018 Workshop: Assistive Precision Neurosurgery
    by admin on October 6, 2018 at 5:26 am

    Dr. Ren was invited to talk at Spain, IROS2018 Workshop: WS10: Assistive Technologies for Precision Neurosurgery: Current Successes and Future Challenges (Oct, 2018) Continue reading

  • Dr. Ren invited to talk at IROS2018 Workshop: Continuum and Soft Robots (CSR)
    by admin on October 6, 2018 at 5:19 am

    Dr. Ren was invited to talk at Spain, IROS2018 Workshop: Continuum and Soft Robots (CSR) (Oct, 2018) Continue reading

  • Team presenting at ICARM2018
    by admin on July 18, 2018 at 2:07 pm

    Our team members were presenting research publications and doing lab demos during IEEE ICARM 2018 (The IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics).   authors title Sri Sai Krishna Suraj Narapareddi, Vineeth Muppalla, Parita Sanghani and Hongliang Ren Comparative Study of […]

  • Dr. Ren gave keynote talk at HCR/i-CREATe 2018
    by admin on July 16, 2018 at 2:40 pm

    Dr. Ren gave a keynote talk at the 2nd Shanghai International Symposium on Human-Centered Robotics, HCR 2018, held together with the 12th international Convention on Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology i-CREATe 2018. our lab abstract “Design of a Human-Centered Compliant and […]

  • Dr. Ren invited to talk at HUST
    by admin on July 13, 2018 at 2:02 pm

    Dr. Ren was invited to talk at HUST (Huazhong University of Science and Technology) on medical robotics. Continue reading

  • Our undergraduates project on surgical robotics received 2 awards
    by admin on July 10, 2018 at 9:16 am

    Our undergraduates DCP project on surgical robotics received 2 awards: FoE 32nd Innovation & Research Award (IRA High Achievement) and NUS Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher (OUR) Prize. Cai Jiayi, Catherine Cai Xinchen Krishna Ramachandra Seenivasan Lalithkumar Ren Hongliang (Advisor), […]

  • Dr. Ren received the Interstellar EARLY CAREER INVESTIGATOR AWARD
    by admin on June 25, 2018 at 2:33 pm

    Dr. Ren received the Interstellar EARLY CAREER INVESTIGATOR AWARD given by the New York Academy of Sciences and the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) and attended the Interstellar workshop held at the New York Academy of Sciences conference center in New York City. Continue […]

  • Showcasing at innovfest unbound 2018
    by admin on June 5, 2018 at 4:04 pm

    Our team’s showcasing at innovfest unbound 2018 (attended by ~14,000 key players in the technology and innovation scene, Southeast Asia’s largest innovation festival) for two technologies in flexible robotics: ONR grasper and ACTORS. Continue reading

  • Dr. Ren received the 2018 IAMBE EARLY CAREER AWARD with an invited talk
    by admin on June 4, 2018 at 2:23 pm

    Dr. Ren received the 2018 IAMBE EARLY CAREER AWARD from The International Academy for Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE) in June of 2018 at The IUPESM 2018 – World Congress on Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering, Prague, Czech Republic. There are 3 awardees internationally and […]

  • Silver Award for BES Research Presentation at Biomedical Engineering Society 12th Scientific Meeting
    by admin on May 20, 2018 at 9:58 am

    Our team, Yun Hol, Kirthika Senthil, Qinghui Wu (NUH advisor) and Ren, Hongliang (NUS advisor) won the Silver Award for BES Research Presentation at Biomedical Engineering Society 12th Scientific Meeting, for the project in a robotic device for medical applications. Continue reading

  • Dr. Ren invited to talk at IEEE NEMS 2018
    by admin on April 26, 2018 at 3:19 am

    Dr. Ren was invited to talk at The 13th Annual IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems on magnetic medical robotics for neurosurgery (22-26, April 2018 at Singapore). Continue reading

  • Dr. Ren invited to talk at KKH monthly neurorehab teaching session
    by admin on December 6, 2017 at 12:40 pm

    Dr. Ren was invited to talk about medical robotics and sensing at KKH’s monthly neurorehab teaching session ( KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital). Continue reading

  • Dr Ren gave talk at NUS-Waterloo Workshop 2017
    by admin on November 21, 2017 at 11:35 am

    Dr Ren gave a talk for NUS & U of Waterloo Workshop on Transnasal Surgical Robotics. Continue reading

  • Dr Ren gave talks and served as Program chair for CISRAM 2017
    by admin on November 20, 2017 at 2:47 pm

    Two papers from our team were presented by Dr Ren: Creation of Statistical Atlas of Nasal Cavity from Computed Tomography Scans for Transnasal Surgeries. Modular Design and Actuation System Comparison for Underactuated Tendon-Driven Soft Anthropomorphic Robotic Finger. Continue reading

  • 3 Awards from biomedical engineering design teams
    by admin on November 6, 2017 at 12:31 pm

    The biomedical engineering design teams, under our lab won “The most innovative design award”, “The best presentation award”,  and “The most elegant instrumentation award” among 12 BN3101 teams of this year.   Continue reading

  • Invited talk and Origami Soft Robots Demo at Robotics Expo
    by admin on November 2, 2017 at 11:12 am

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  • Team presenting our ACTORS technology at Lean LaunchPad
    by admin on October 23, 2017 at 4:47 am

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  • Dr. Ren invited to talk at KAIST-NUS workshop
    by admin on October 16, 2017 at 5:27 am

    Dr. Ren invited to talk at KAIST-NUS workshop on global healthcare Continue reading

  • Team won gold award at EMedic Global 2017
    by admin on October 1, 2017 at 3:45 am

    Our Team ACTORS won the gold award at EMedic Global 2017 out of about 20 teams Continue reading

  • Team presenting at IROS 2017
    by admin on September 27, 2017 at 3:00 am

    Our papers on surgical navigation and flexible robotics were presented in the conference and also Dr. Ren chaired the session for medical robotics. Continue reading

  • Team presenting at MICCAI
    by admin on September 12, 2017 at 12:19 am

    Our papers on surgical navigation and automatic medical image analysis were pretended. Continue reading

  • Flexible robotic manipulator pretended and team meeting at WRC 2017
    by admin on August 27, 2017 at 1:20 pm

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  • Soft tactile sensors presented at CASE 2017
    by admin on August 23, 2017 at 1:10 pm

    DEVELOPMENT OF FLEXIBLE FABRIC BASED TACTILE SENSOR FOR CLOSED LOOP CONTROL OF SOFT ROBOTIC ACTUATOR    Godwin Ponraj, Senthil Kumar Kirthika, Nitish V. Thakor, Fellow, IEEE, Chen-Hua Yeow, Member, IEEE, Sunil L. Kukreja, Senior Member, IEEE and Hongliang Ren†, Member, IEEE   Abstract— The […]

  • Team attending IRC-SET 2017
    by admin on August 10, 2017 at 1:32 pm

      Our team attended IRC-SET 2017 and presented Semi-Automated Segmentation of Glioblastomas in Brain MRI Using Machine Learning Techniques by Naomi Joseph, Parita Sanghani, Hongliang Ren Air-Powered Soft Robotic Gripper Using Lego Bricks and Jamming of Granular Material: An Initial Approach by […]

  • Congratulations to Summer interns
    by admin on July 29, 2017 at 1:05 am

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  • Dr Ren visited U of Macau
    by admin on July 20, 2017 at 12:55 am

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  • Dr Ren delivered IEEE ICIA plenary talk
    by admin on July 20, 2017 at 12:40 am

    Dr Ren delivered A plenary talk at IEEE ICIA 2017 and also presented other two research publications. Continue reading

  • Co-organization of ICAR 2017 on the boats
    by admin on July 16, 2017 at 1:00 am

    Our team co-organized the historical ICAR (International conference on advanced robotics) conference at Hong Kong. Dr Ren served as the program chair and our previous and current members were presenting in the conference. Continue reading

  • Our paper to ICVS2017 shortlisted
    by admin on July 11, 2017 at 2:10 pm

    Our paper on the stereo endoscope navigation was shortlisted as Best conference paper (finalist award) in the recent ICVS 2017 conference at Shenzhen. Continue reading

  • Team showing at Innofest
    by admin on June 8, 2017 at 2:10 am

    Team showing flexible robotic manipulators at NUSRI Innofest  Continue reading

  • Dr REN invited to talk at SUDA 
    by admin on June 6, 2017 at 2:40 am

    Dr REN was invited to talk about recent surgical robotics Research at SUDA, Soochow University Continue reading

  • Team at ICRA
    by admin on June 3, 2017 at 2:35 am

    Our team members have been actively participating in the ICRA conference at various angles including chairing sessions, volunteers, technical tour Demo, workshops, robotic challenge among others. Continue reading

  • Team visit to FANUC Singapore
    by admin on November 16, 2016 at 3:19 am

    Team visit to FANUC Singapore PTE LTD, observing intelligent and collaborative robotic systems Continue reading

  • Dr Ren Invited to Talk at NEU
    by admin on November 11, 2016 at 3:00 pm

    Dr Ren was Invited to Talk at NEU (Northeastern University of China) Continue reading

  • Dr Ren Invited to Talk at SUSTC
    by admin on October 30, 2016 at 2:57 pm

    Dr Ren Invited to Talk at SUSTC (South University of Science and Technology of China) about recent developments in flexible surgical robotics. Continue reading

  • ICBME 2016 Special Symposium in surgical navigation and robotics
    by admin on August 12, 2016 at 2:32 pm

    ICBME 2016 Special Symposium on Surgical Robotics and Navigation Symposium Organizing Chairs: Hongliang Ren (Singapore), Etsuko Kobayashi (Japan) Themes Computer-Assisted Surgery Flexible Robotics and navigation in Surgery Artificial Intelligence in Robotic Surgery Date: Dec 7, 2016 U-Town […]

  • Best Paper Finalist award at ICMA 2016 Conference
    by admin on August 10, 2016 at 11:44 pm

    Our team’s research paper titled “Investigation of a Stiffness Varying Mechanism for Flexible Robotic System” paper was presented and shortlisted for the Best Conference Paper at 2016 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA 2016), Aug 7-10, 2016, China. Continue […]

  • ICIA 2016
    by admin on August 10, 2016 at 12:50 pm

    Members of our research staff were actively involved at ICIA2016, IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation in Ningbo, China from Jul 31 to Aug 4. Dr. Ren was the Program Chair of the organizing committee and also presented our recent papers in soft and flexible robotics. […]

  • Best Student Paper for IEEE RCAR2016
    by admin on June 10, 2016 at 1:28 pm

    Our paper titled “Towards Magnetically Actuated Guide-wire Steering in Arteriovenous Fistula Angioplasty Procedures” was awarded for the Best Student Paper at IEEE Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics (RCAR), June 6 to 10, 2016, at Angkor Wat, Cambodia. Continue reading

  • Gold award in BES10SM Design Competition
    by admin on May 14, 2016 at 1:10 pm

    Congratulations to the Gold award in the Biomedical engineering Society 10th Scientific Meeting (BES10SM) at Singapore, 14th May 2016, for our lab’s research led by FYP student, Yoew Bok Seng, on the project of Magnetic Robotic Intervention, for the design (undergraduate) category. Continue […]

  • Best Paper Finalist award at CSCWD 2016 Conference
    by admin on May 4, 2016 at 1:01 pm

    Our team’s research paper titled “Human-Compliant Body-Attached Soft Robots Towards Automatic Cooperative Ultrasound Imaging” paper was presented and shortlisted for the Best Conference Paper at 2016 20th IEEE International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD […]

  • Farewell Party for Dr. Wang Hongqiang
    on October 14, 2015 at 2:53 pm

    We have held a farewell party for Dr. Wang Hongqiang, our research fellow, who is moving to Harvard University. Continue reading

  • Our research presented at IROS 2015
    on October 2, 2015 at 2:56 pm

    The 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) took place in Hamburg, Germany during September 28 to October 02, 2015. The theme of the 2015 IROS conference was “Gateway to the Era of Robots” with the goal to create a variety of opportunities and formats […]

  • Our article featured on the cover of IEEE Sensor Journal
    by admin on August 19, 2015 at 3:06 am

    Out of 72 articles in the same issue, our paper on flexible robotic sensing, entitled “Electromagnetic Positioning for Tip Tracking and Shape Sensing of Flexible Robots”, was  featured on the cover of IEEE Sensor Journal,  (Volume:15 , Issue: 8, Issue Date: Aug. 2015). For more information […]

  • ICORR at NTU
    on August 14, 2015 at 6:31 am

    This year, the 14th edition of the IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR 2015) was hold in Singapore and our paper titled ‘A Preliminary Study of Force Estimation Based on Surface EMG: Towards Neuromechanically Guided Soft Oral Rehabilitation Robot’ was […]

  • Best Paper Finalist award at ICIA 2015 Conference
    on August 10, 2015 at 6:33 am

    During the recent IEEE ICIA/ICAL 2015 conference, we presented two papers including: 1. Keyu Wu, Liao Wu, Chwee Ming Lim, Hongliang Ren. Model-free Image Guidance for Intelligent Tubular Robots with Pre-clinical Feasibility Study: Towards Minimally Invasive Trans-orifice Surgery. 2. Wenjun Xu, […]

  • CIS-RAM 2015 at Angkor Wat, Cambodia
    on July 18, 2015 at 7:31 am

    The 7th IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems (CIS) and the 7th IEEE International Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM) was held in 15-17 July, 2015 at Angkor Wat, Cambodia. The conferences brought the international community of researchers, […]

  • ACCAS presentations and lab demos at NUS
    on July 12, 2015 at 1:02 pm

    The 11th Asian Conference on Computer Aided Surgery (ACCAS2015) was held in Singapore on July 9-11, 2015 at National University of Singapore. During the conference, international academic researchers, clinical scientists, surgeons and industrial partners presented and discussed their key […]

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Dr. REN awarded MSIWF Research Grant

(Nov 2014) Dr. Hongliang REN was awarded with Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Welfare Foundation (MSIWF) Research Grant.

Congratulate Sun Yi on winning the NUS Graduate School Scholarship (NGSS)

(Sept 2014) Our research assistant, Sun Yi, has received the very competitive graduate scholarship from NUS Graduate School (NGS) and will pursue his PhD in NUS.

Best Paper Award at IEEE Cyber 2014

(Jul 2014) Our paper on surgical tracking led by Jiaole received the best conference paper award at IEEE Cyber 2014.

Dr. REN awarded SMF grant

(Jul 2014) Dr. Hongliang REN was awarded with Singapore Millennium Foundation (SMF) grant for his proposed research on biologically inspired transnasal robotics.

Welcome visiting students from USA

(May 2014) A warm welcome to our visiting students, Ashley, Amy, and Kaiyuan, from UIUC and JHU, USA! They will participate the research projects in surgical navigation and robotics for 2 months.

Gold award and merit award in BES8SM (2014)

(May 2014) Congratulations on the awards led by our FYP students, Lynette and Yong Chun in the Biomedical Engineering Society 8th Scientific Meeting (BES8SM)! Lynette (right in the photo) won the gold award, for platform presentation under the university (undergraduate) category and another project poster led by Yong Chun (left) won the Merit Award in the Poster Category (undergraduate).

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  • Platform Presentation Category (undergraduate) Group: Teo Li Ting Lynette, Liao Wu, and Hongliang Ren, National University of Singapore Gold Award: “Robotic Endoscopy System for Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery”
  • Poster Category (undergraduate) Group: Koh Yong Chun, Jiayue Xu, Zhaolin Yang and Hongliang Ren, National University of Singapore Merit Award: “A Study Of Motion Control Patterns In Biorobotic Spiders”

Walking team explored Southern Ridges

(May 2014) A good escape from brain work – the walking team finished a journey through the Southern Ridges of Singapore during the Labour Day.

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Biorobotics FYP project received FoE 28th Innovation & Research Award (2014)

(May 2014) Congratulations to Yong Chun and Jiayue, two FYP students of our lab working on the biorobotics project, which has been selected for the Merit Award in the FoE 28th Innovation & Research Award (2014).

Clinical experiments with the developed robotic systems

(Feb 2014) In collaboration with Dr. Lim from ENT dept, a series of clinical experiments were performed in the National University Hospital, using the surgical robotic systems recently developed by our team members. 2014-02-24 10.39.56-prepSY

​​Dr. Song Zhangjun delivered a seminar on robotics

(Feb 2014) Jointly Organized By Medical Mechatronics Lab, BME; Edutainment Robotics Lab, ECE; Social Robotics Lab, IDMI, and Singapore IEEE SMC, R&A, and Control Chapters, Dr. Song Zhangjun gave a talk on Intelligent Systems & Robotics.

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Best Paper Award at ROBIO 2013

(Dec 2013)  In the recent ROBIO 2013, out of 610 submissions, our paper on cognitive tracking won the best conference paper award. Our paper on statistical implant & intramedullary robot  was nominated a finalist for the best conference paper in robotics.

  • Liu, W.; Ren, H.; Zhang, W. & Song, S. Cognitive Tracking of Surgical Instruments Based on Stereo Vision and Depth Sensing
  • Wu, K.; Wong, F. K. L.; Daruwalla, Z. J.; Murphy, D. & Ren, H. Statistical Humerus Atlas for Optimal Design of Asian-Specific Humerus Implants and Associated Intramedullary Robotics

Research paper shortlisted for ICBME Young Investigator Award

(Dec 2013) Our paper on flexible endoscopic robot led by Zeqi is shortlisted for ICBME 2013 (International Conferences in Biomedical Engineering) Young Investigator Award. Paper: Zeqi Tan and Hongliang Ren, Design and Actuation of a Snake-Like Robot for Minimally Invasive Surgeries, The 15th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering IFMBE Proceedings Volume 43, 2014, pp 28-31

Welcome to Dr. WU Liao

(Dec 2013) Welcome to Dr. WU Liao, who received both his B.S and PhD from Tsinghua University. He recently joined our lab as a research fellow and will be working on surgical robotics.

Dr. REN awarded YIA of NUS

(Oct 2013) Dr. Hongliang REN won the NUS Young Investigator Award with half million grant for his proposed research on medical micro-robotics.

Welcome to visiting students, Zongyong, Jiaole and Cong

(October 1, 2013) Zongyong is currently a PhD student from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and will be a visit PhD student in NUS for 1 year. Jiaole and Cong are visiting PhD students from The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Welcome to visiting students from Imperial College London, UK

(Aug 2013) Welcome to Zhenyi, Vyoma, Geraint, and Daniel, who are visiting students from Imperial College London, UK and will participate the research projects in NUS for 2 months.

Welcome to visiting students from Johns Hopkins University, USA

(June 2013) Welcome to Rohil, Inez, Namrata and Mizuha, who are visiting students from Johns Hopkins University, USA and will participate the research projects in surgical tracking, navigation and robotics for 2 months.

Welcome to visiting students from Thailand

(April 1, 2013) Welcome to Dusita Sukvanitvichai and Kulthisa Sajjamark, who are visiting students from Mahidol University, Thailand and will participate the research projects in surgical navigation and planning.

Finalist for best paper at ROBIO 2012

(Dec 2012) Our surgical planning paper (Statistical Atlas Based Registration and Planning for Ablating Bone Tumors in Minimally Invasive Interventions, by Xin Kang, Hongliang Ren, Jing Li and Waipan Yau) was one of the five finalists for the best conference paper award at ROBIO 2012 in Guangzhou, China. Congrats to the winners and the other finalists. (The photo cited from IEEE ROBIO 2012 website showed that Prof Toshio Fukuda was presenting the awards).

Dr. REN invited to give a talk in Bio4Apps 2012

(Nov 2012) The new but well attended conference, the Bio4Apps 2012 (International Conference on BioElectronics, BioSensors, BioMedical Devices, BioMEMS/NEMS and Applications; http://www.ece.nus.edu.sg/stfpage/elelc/Conference_Bio4Apps2012.html) is held at NUS, Singapore on Nov. 19 and 20, 2012, and Dr. REN is invited to give a talk on ‘Surgical Instrument Tracking for Navigating Minimally Invasive Surgery’. This conference is also held in conjunction with the JSPS Sponsored Workshop.

Dr. REN invited to give a talk in 2012 International Workshop on Robotics

(Oct 2012) Dr. REN is invited to give a talk in the 2012 International Workshop on Robotics (http://www.risit.org/workshop/) on 31st October 2012, which is held in conjunction with The International Conference on Social Robotics (http://www.icsoro.org/) in Chengdu. This workshop is to discuss the state-of-the-art in robotics and their emerging applications in different areas. In particular, Dr. REN gave a talk on Surgical Navigation and Planning in Computer-Integrated Interventional Medicine.

Welcome to Wei Liu

(Oct 2012) Welcome to Wei LIU, who recently joined our lab as a research engineer and will be working on a new trans-oral surgical robotic system.

Congratulations and welcome to Darren

(Aug 2012) Congratulations and welcome to Darren Yue ZHOU, a visiting PhD students from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, who was selected to receive an award under the Global Scholarship Programme for Research Excellence – CNOOC Grants for 2012-13.

Welcome new members!

(Aug 2012) Final year and UROP undergraduate students, Andy, Wan Cheng, Zeqi, Keyu, Cai Lin and Royston, recently joined our lab to work on various projects in computer integrated surgical systems.

Dr. REN to serve IEEE ICIA conference as program chair

(June 2012) Dr. REN is elected as program chair to serve the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation (IEEE ICIA 2013), which will be held in Yinchuan, Ningxia in Aug 2013. For more information, please visit the conference website of ICIA2013.

Dr. REN invited to give a talk at Hong Kong

(June 2012) Dr. Ren is invited by the Shun Hing Institute of Advanced Engineering of The Chinese University of Hong Kong to deliver a talk entitled ‘Surgical Navigation and Planning in Computer-Integrated Interventional Medicine: An Information Fusion Perspective’ for the Shun Hing Distinguished Lecture Series.

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