News before 2017

News in 2016

September, 2016
Welcome Liu Zemin, Wang Siqi and Fang Xi to join the lab as graduate students!
August 19, 2016
Prof. Li Wen received National Science Foundation Key Grant to develop future autonomous underwater Soft robotics for biological samples collection!
May, 2016
Prof. Li Wen receive research grant from Festo AG & Co.KG, Germany to develop the future bio-inspired soft robotic manipulator!
April 21, 2016
Prof. Li Wen has been elected as annual people (totally 10) in Department of mechanical engineering in year 2015.
February 2, 2016
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Sytems lauches new special issue "Soft Robotics Interacting with the Real World", Prof. Li Wen served as guest editor. More information please refer to the link. Link
January 14, 2016
Prof. Li Wen gave an invited talk at school of engineerin, Seoul National university, Korea. The talk was hosted by Prof. Kyujin Cho and Prof. Kim Ho-young. Prof. Li Wen gave an invited talk at 9th international symposium of nature-inspired technologies at Daejeon, Korea.

News in 2015

November 19, 2015
Congratulations! Gong Zheyuan and Xie Zhexin win the the first prize of National “Challenging Cup”! (this is the most prodigious Scientific and Technilogical competition of undergraduate students).
November 14, 2015
Prof. Kin Huat Low from NTU visited our lab.
October 2, 2015
Prof. Li Wen give an invited talk at IROS workshop “New Frontiers and Applications for Soft Robotics”. More information please refer to the link. Link
September 9, 2015
Good news! Our paper “bio-robotic model as scientific tool for experimentally investigating hydrodynamic functions of fish caudal fin” won the best technical paper award at the “2015 International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots” conference!
September 8, 2015
Prof. Fumiya Iida’s visited our lab and gave a presentation "bio-inspired soft robotics"
August 25, 2015
Prof. Li Wen give a plenary talk about “bio-inspired structure and soft robotics” on Stratasys forum in Shanghai.
August 20, 2015
Our research on “soft robotic gripper with tunable effective length” is accepted by IROS as poster presentation at Hamburg, Germany.
July 20, 2015
Throw-away party for our lab members Lin Xiao (who will Join Carnegie Mellon University as a graduate student) and Israel Gabti (who will Join Imperial College London as a graduate student). Wish they continue their success in future career!
July 8, 2015
Prof. Li Wen present a talk for IEEE Bio-robotics Technical Committee in ICRA in Seattle about the “Bio-robotics in China”.
June 30, 2015
Ren Ziyu’s research on “hydrodynamics of robotic caudal fin” is accepted by IROS at Hamburg, Germany.
June 20, 2015
Prof. Li Wen presented a keynote talk in Chinese Science Academy about soft robotics. More information please refer to the link. Link
June 15, 2015
Welcome our new lab member! Guan Shaoya joined our lab as a graduate Student!
June 1, 2015
Congratulations! Gong Zheyuan and Xie Zhexin win the “Challenging Cup” Beijing Chapter (the most prodigious Scientific competition) special prize! More information please refer to the link. Link
May 26, 2015
Prof. Li Wen present a talk about the Remora project in “Robotics-inspired Biology” workshop in ICRA, Seattle.
May 25, 2015
Prof. Li Wen present a talk for IEEE Bio-robotics Technical Committee in ICRA in Seattle about the “Bio-robotics in China”.
March, 2015
Welcome our new lab members! Mr. Hu Kainan and Mr. Yuan Tao joined the lab as Graduate Students!
January, 2015
Prof. Li Wen presented a talk about biomimetic shark skin in Annual Meeting of Society of Integrative Orgasmic Biology, 2015, West Palm Beach, USA.
January, 2015
The three-dimensional multiple-fin underwater bio-robotics project was founded by National Science Foundation Beijing!

News in 2014

October, 2014
Luo Ruidong joined our lab as a graduate student (with Prof. Tianmiao Wang).
October 8, 2014
Welcome our new lab members! Dr. Liu Xudong joined this lab as research associate, Wang Yueping joined this lab as Graduate Student, Gong Zheyuan and Xie Zhexin joined this lab as part of the “excellent undergraduate engineers program”.
September 19, 2014
The Remora-inspired Underwater Hitchhiking Soft Robot project was founded by National Science Foundation China!
September 15, 2014
Prof. Li Wen gave a talk about Bio-inspired Soft Robotics in Chengdu.
August 14, 2014
Prof. Li Wen gave a talk about flexible caudal fin robot in ICEFM in Beijing.
July 12, 2014
Prof. Li Wen gave a talk about multiple flexible fin robot in WAICA.
June 15, 2014
Ren Ziyu successfully defend his undergraduate thesis.
June 2, 2014
Prof. Li Wen attend the ICRA and give a workshop talk about the shark skin work.
May 22, 2014
Our shark skin paper with Harvard University has been featured by Nature as Research highlights!
May 15, 2014
Our shark skin work has been reported by Science!
May 14, 2014
Our biomimetic shark skin work has been reported by BBC, popular mechanics, Nature world news, Harvard University Wyss Institute etc.