Patents and Competitions


Research Interest Groups


  • Autonomous soft robots (continuum & concentric tube robots) 
  • Bipedal humanoid robots 
  • Quadruped robots
  • Autonomous mobile manipulation robots 
  • Artificial intelligence and computer vision algorithms and applications

Recent Works

Visual odometry for autonomous navigation in environments with low illumination and uneven terrain, January 2021

Self-balancing e-bike prototype test at NTU Campus, November 2023

Laboratory-made drone UAV indoor flying against disturbances, January 2024

Drone flying with following a mobile robot (take-off and landing), January 2024

A mechanically compliant cable-driven five-fingered robotic hand with grasping objects with arbitrary shapes, June 2023

A pneumatic-driven five-fingered robotic hand (grasping balloon task with different grasping force levels), June 2023

A 6-DOF concentric tube robot performing: (1) arbitrary poses; (2) image- guided autonomous grasping tasks, June 2023

Flapping-wing robot (ornithopter) with flying pose control (via remote controller), June 2023

Autonomous Navigation of a Forklift Robot

Subject-adaptive transfer learning for sEMG hand gesture classification, January 2024

Two and three drones formation with circle and lemniscate paths, January 2024

Three drones formation with co-hooking an object uisng a knotted nylon netting, January 2024

​Humanoid robot fall detection and recovery (self-protection with disconnecting power and restoration), November 2023

A five-fingered robotic hand deploying liquid metal injected tactile sensor arrays, June 2023

A PLA printed autonomous robotic dog (SLAM, path planning, obstacle avoidance and video surveillance), June, 2023

Stir-frying robot for cooking pasta noodles and image processing

Autonomous 3D object grasping with stereoscopic vision and machine learning, July 2022

Continuum manipulator Initial Trials on October 2020​

​Ornithopter Initial Trials on October 2020​

Six-legged Robot Prototype Initial Trials on October 2020​