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

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[2023-12-11] Dr.Jiang from The University of Tokyo joined the Soft Robotics Research Center.

Dr.Jiang from The University of Tokyo joined the Soft Robotics Research Center as Postdoctoral Fellow. He specializes in advanced manufacturing and robotics. He has published 6 papers as the first author in CIRP annals、Int. J. Adv. Manuf. Technol.、J. Electr. Eng. Technol and international conferences, and 14 papers in total. More

[2023-08-07] Dr. Xu from UCLA joined the Soft Robotics Research Center.

Dr. Xu from University of California, Los Angeles(UCLA) joined the Soft Robotics Research Center as Postdoctoral Fellow. She specializes in microrheology, soft matter physics, colloidal dynamics, and stimuli-responsive hydrogels. She has published 4 papers as first/co-author in Science Advances, Physical Review E, Scientific Reports, and 9 paper in total. 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

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