- 2021 annual strategic planning meeting 2021-03-31
- Our center starts global recruitment 2021-03-09
- SIAT PCT applications in the lead 2021-03-05
- SIAT NSFC grands hit record high 2020-12-25
- A world-class research-oriented university 2020-11-20
- A publication on IEEE/ASME TMech 2021-02-01
- A MOST project is officially completed 2020-12-04
- A GD project is completed 2020-08-14
- A GD project is completed 2020-06-05
- A publication on IEEE/ASME TMech 2019-09-25
Welcome from the Director:
Hello, Welcome to our Soft Robotics Research Center at Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. In this website, we will introduce to you who we are, what we do, how we do it, and what we will be doing in the interdisciplinary field of soft robotics. We always welcome experts and professionals of all levels to join us in doing great work in this interesting field.
——Zeyang Xia, Ph.D., Professor, Director of Research Center
News Update

[2021-12-09] Annual Conference of NSFC-JSPS International Cooerative Research Project was successfully held
On Dec. 9, the 2021 annual conference and academic seminar of the international cooperative research project between the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) was successfully held at SIAT, Shenzhen China. The conference was co-chaired by Porf. Xia Zeyang and Prof. Hiroshi Yokai. More

[2021-09-26] A monograph "Advanced Robotic System Simulation" came off the press
A monograph: Zeyang Xia, Advanced Robotic System Simulation, ISBN 978-7-5680-7125-3, 2021.06, came off the press by Huazhong University of Science and Technology Press. This monograph systematically introduces the modeling theory and simulation method of the "rigid-deformable-soft" robotic system in the previous work. More

[2021-09-24] A meeting to evaluate the Dissertation Proposals and Mid-term Reports for the graduate students was held
This is the Dissertation Proposal and Mid-term Report defense for the graduate students at autumn 2021. Profs. from Shanghai Jiao Tong Univerity, Nanfang Hospitial of Southern Medical University and SIAT participated in the review. More

[2021-08-25] Autumn Academic Seminar of research center was successfully held
Aug. 25, All research staffs, students of our research center attended the meeting and made quarterly academic research progress reports and exchanges respectively. Two invited Ph.D. students shared their research experience and made interactive communications with our graducate students. More

[2021-02-01] Congratulations!Our paper entitled "A Mechanism-image Fusion Approach to Calibration of An Ultrasound-guided Dual-arm Robotic Brachytherapy System" has been published at IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics Journal.
This paper presents a mechanism-image fusion approach to calibration of a US-guided dual-arm robotic brachytherapy system. With this approach, no tracker or complex phantom is needed as the dual-arm robotic system can use one arm as a substitute for tracker and phantom to calibrate the other arm. More



- [2021-12-09] Annual Conference of NSFC-JSPS International Cooerative Research Project was successfully held
- [2021-09-26] A monograph "Advanced Robotic System Simulation" came off the press
- [2021-09-24] A meeting to evaluate the Dissertation Proposals and Mid-term Reports for the graduate students was held
- [2021-08-25] Autumn Academic Seminar of research center was successfully held
- [2021-02-09] Soft Robotics Research Center starts the global recruitment plan.
- [2021-02-01] Congratulations!Our paper entitled "A Mechanism-image Fusion Approach to Calibration of An Ultrasound-guided Dual-arm Robotic Brachytherapy System" has been published at IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics Journal.
- [2020-12-16] Prof. Xia was invited to serve as the technical editor of IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics.
- [2020-12-04] An Inter-governmental Cooperative Science and Technology Project, Ministry of Science and Technology, China completes final reply.
- [2020-09-02] Prof. Xia was invited to serve as the special editor board member of the Robot magazine for the speical issue on "medical robtoic technology".
- [2020-08-14] A Major Project of Guangdong Province Science and Technology Department is officaly completed.
- [2020-06-05] A Guangdong Natural Science Funds for Distinguished Young Scholar is officaly completed.
- [Dec. 2019] Prof. Xia was awarded the honorary of "Excellent Member Award, Youth Innovation Promotion Association, Chinese Academy of Sciences".
- [Nov. 2019] Prof. Xia was invited to visit the UNSW, Sydney and gave a talk.
- [Sep. 2019] Congratulations!Our paper entitled "Optimal Design of Soft Pneumatic Bending Actuators Subjected to Design-Dependent Pressure Loads" has been published on IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics Journal.
- [Aug. 2019] Prof. Xia was awarded the honorary of "Xiong Youlun Zhihu Excellent Youth Scientist Award".
- [Aug. 2019] IEEE RCAR 2019 was successfully held.
- [May. 2019] Congratulations!Our paper entitled "Simulation of Orthodontic Force of Archwire Applied to Full Dentition using Virtual Bracket Displacement Method" has been published on International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering and published as cover paper.
- [Apr. 2019] Our team attended the 2nd IEEE RoboSoft 2019
- [Jan. 2019] Hiking and Teambuilding.
- [Dec. 2018] Our team participated in the 2018 annual Conference of Chinese Robotics Society (CCRS 2018) and Prof. Xia gave a report at the conference session.
- [Nov. 2018] Prof. Xia was elected vice chairman of the Young Scientists Club of China Electronic Institute, and chairman on duty in 2021.
- [Aug. 2018] Our Team will organize the IEEE RCAR 2019
- [May. 2018] Our Team attended the ICRA 2018 conference and the Soft Material Robot Challenge.
- [Apr. 2018] Prof. Xia was awarded the honorary of "Excellent Scientific and Technical Workers of the Chinese Institute of Electronics".
- [Dec. 2017] Our team was awarded the Seventh Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Award (Natural Science)
- [Nov. 2017] Team members visited UEC, Tokyo, Japan.
- [Oct. 2017] Our team jointly organized ICVS 2017, and Prof. Xia serves as Program Co-Chair.
- [Aug. 2017] Prof. Xia served as the Chair of Young Scientist on Robotics Forum at WRC 2017.
- [Jul. 2017] Prof. Xia chaired the panel discussion at CCF-GAIR 2017: How will robots change the industry?
