- 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
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- Paper in AJODO by Research Team 2023-07-09
- Team's New Publication in Comput. Sci. 2023-06-09
- Med. Phys. Features Team's Work. 2022-11-17
- Team Granted National Invention Patent 2021-02-05
- Paper in IEEE-ASME T MECH by Team 2021-02-01
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

[2023-08-07] Dr. Xu from UCLA joined the Soft Robotics Research Center as Assistant Professor.
Dr. Xu from University of California, Los Angeles(UCLA) joined the Soft Robotics Research Center as Assistant Professor/Postdoctoral Fellow. She specializes in microrheology, soft matter physics, colloidal dynamics, and stimuli-responsive hydrogels. More

[2023-07-16] Soft Robotics Research Center members participated in the 10th Medical Image Computing Seminar 2023 (MICS 2023), and was invited to give a report
The 10th Medical Image Computing Seminar 2023 was held on July 14-17 in the Xiaohe International Conference Center in Taiyuan, the members of Research Center were invited to participate in the conference and gave a lecture titled “Dental Image Processing for Precision Orthodontic Treatment“. More

[2023-07-09] The American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics published our team's work: "The mechanical effect of geometric design of attachments in invisible methodology"
This study aimed to determine the biomechanical effect of attachment geometry on orthodontic force and moment using 3-dimensional finite element analysis. More

[2023-06-09] The Journal of Computational Science published our team's work: "Efficient dynamic modeling of soft tissue deformation using a WSC-integrated order reduction method"
A new Weighted Skinning and Cubature Integrated (WSC-integrated) order reduction method is proposed for dynamic modeling of soft tissue deformation. More

[2023-06-04] Soft Robotics Research Center members participated in the 2023 Academic annual conference of Intelligent Rehabilitation Council of Chinese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine and gave an invited report at the conference session
This 2023 Academic annual conference was held from June 2 to 5 in the conference hall of the Wangjiang Hotel in Chengdu. Prof. Xia made a special invited report entitled “Robot and artificial Intelligence assisted precision Orthodontic diagnosis and Treatment“. More

[2023-04-01] Dr.Chen from NTU/PolyU joined the Soft Robotics Research Center as Associate Professor!
Dr. Chen from the NTU/PolyU joined the Soft Robotics Research Center as an Associate Professor. Dr. Chen received his Ph.D. degree from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2019. His research focuses on soft robotics and biomechanics. More

[2023-01-11] The 2022 Annual Meeting and Symposium of Key Support Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China “Research on Quality Prediction and Robot-Assisted Key Technology for Precision Orthodontic Treatment” was successfully held
On January 11, the 2022 Annual Meeting and Symposium of Key Support Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China “Research on Quality Prediction and Robot-Assisted Key Technology for Precision Orthodontic Treatment” was held at CAS/SIAT, presided over by Prof. Xia. More

[2022-11-17] The Medical Physics published our team's work: "Fully automated cardiac MRI segmentation using dilated residual network"
This paper proposed a dilated residual UNet (DRN) for cardiac ventricle segmentation using short-axis CMRI. This method is highly accurate and quick. More

[2022-08-25] New Book Launch - The New Monograph “Dental Image Processing“ Published by Prof. Xia's Team
Recently, the “Dental Image Processing” compiled by Zeyang Xia's research team was published by the China Science Press. This book systematically introduces Prof. Xia and his research team's previous results based on the clinical orthodontic treatment of different application scenarios in various types of oral CT image segmentation and reconstruction methods. More

[2021-12-09] NSFC-JSPS International Cooperative Research Program 2021 Annual Conference and Academic Exchange Conference
On December 9, the 2021 Annual Conference and Academic Exchange Conference of the International Cooperative Research Program between the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), undertaken by the Soft Robotics Research Center of CAS/SIAT was successfully held. 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

[2021-02-09] Soft Robotics Research Center starts the global recruitment plan.
Soft Robotics Research Center starts the global recruitment plan, and calls for Professors and Associate Professors, Assistant Professors and Postdoctoral Fellows, Research Assistants and Engineers, Ph.D. and Master Students, and Joint-supervision/Guest Students. We always welcome experts and professionals of all levels to join us in doing great work in this interesting field. More



- [2023-08-07] Dr. Xu from UCLA joined the Soft Robotics Research Center as Assistant Professor.
- [2023-07-16] Soft Robotics Research Center members participated in the 10th Medical Image Computing Seminar 2023 (MICS 2023), and was invited to give a report
- [2023-07-09] The American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics published our team's work: "The mechanical effect of geometric design of attachments in invisible methodology"
- [2023-06-09] The Journal of Computational Science published our team's work: "Efficient dynamic modeling of soft tissue deformation using a WSC-integrated order reduction method"
- [2023-06-04] Soft Robotics Research Center members participated in the 2023 Academic annual conference of Intelligent Rehabilitation Council of Chinese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine and gave an invited report at the conference session
- [2023-04-01] Dr.Chen from NTU/PolyU joined the Soft Robotics Research Center as Associate Professor!
- [2023-01-11] The 2022 Annual Meeting and Symposium of Key Support Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China “Research on Quality Prediction and Robot-Assisted Key Technology for Precision Orthodontic Treatment” was successfully held
- [2022-11-17] The Medical Physics published our team's work: "Fully automated cardiac MRI segmentation using dilated residual network"
- [2022-08-25] New Book Launch - The New Monograph “Dental Image Processing“ Published by Prof. Xia's Team
- [2021-12-09] NSFC-JSPS International Cooperative Research Program 2021 Annual Conference and Academic Exchange Conference
- [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] IEEE/ASME T MECH published our team's work: "A Mechanism-image Fusion Approach to Calibration of An Ultrasound-guided Dual-arm Robotic Brachytherapy System"
- [2020-12-16] Research Center member 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] Research Center member 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.
- [2019-12-09] Research Center member was awarded the honorary of "Excellent Member Award, Youth Innovation Promotion Association, Chinese Academy of Sciences".
- [2019-11-15] Research Center member was invited to visit the UNSW, Sydney and gave a talk.
- [2019-09-25] 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.
- [2019-08-13] Prof. Xia was awarded the honorary of "Xiong Youlun Zhihu Excellent Youth Scientist Award".
- [2019-08-10] IEEE RCAR 2019 was successfully held.
- [2019-05-28] 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.
- [2019-04-15] Our team attended the 2nd IEEE RoboSoft 2019
- [2019-01-27] Hiking and Teambuilding.
- [2018-12-08] Our team participated in the 2018 annual Conference of Chinese Robotics Society (CCRS 2018) and Prof. Xia gave a report at the conference session.
- [2018-11-16] Prof. Xia was elected vice chairman of the Young Scientists Club of China Electronic Institute, and chairman on duty in 2021.
- [2018-08-25] Our Team will organize the IEEE RCAR 2019
- [2018-05-13] Our Team attended the ICRA 2018 conference and the Soft Material Robot Challenge.
- [2018-04-21] Prof. Xia was awarded the honorary of "Excellent Scientific and Technical Workers of the Chinese Institute of Electronics".
- [2017-12-22] Our team was awarded the Seventh Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Award (Natural Science)
- [2017-11-06] Team members visited UEC, Tokyo, Japan.
- [2017-10] Our team jointly organized ICVS 2017, and Prof. Xia serves as Program Co-Chair.
- [2017-08-25] Prof. Xia served as the Chair of Young Scientist on Robotics Forum at WRC 2017.
- [2017-07-08] Prof. Xia chaired the panel discussion at CCF-GAIR 2017: How will robots change the industry?
