Speakers

Professor I-Ming Chen received B.S. degree from National Taiwan University in 1986, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA in 1989 and 1994 respectively. He is currently Full Professor in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Co-Director of CARTIN (Center for Advanced Robotics Technology and Innovation) in Nanyang Technological University (NTU), and Technical Advisor to National Robotics Program Office in Singapore, and Certified Patent Valuation Analyst (CPVA). He was Editor-in-chief of IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics from 2020 to 2022, and Director of Robotics Research Centre (NTU) from 2013 to 2017. Professor Chen is Fellow of Singapore Academy of Engineering, Fellow of IEEE and Fellow of ASME, General Chairman of 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2017) in Singapore. His research interests are in Robot AI & perception, logistics and construction robots, human-robot interaction, and industrial automation. He founded Transforma Robotics Pte Ltd developing robots for construction industry and Hand Plus Robotics Pte Ltd developing robotics and AI solutions for logistics and manufacturing industry. 

Prof Chen I-Ming

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Prof. Xianmin Zhang

South China University of Technology, China

Professor Zhang, Doctoral Supervisor, National Outstanding Youth Science Fund recipient, National Candidate of the National Project of One Hundred Million Talents for the New Century, and Pearl River Scholars Distinguished Professor. He is currently the dean of the School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering of South China University of Technology, and the leader of the discipline of mechanical manufacturing and automation. He is also the chairman of the China Committee of the International Federation of Mechanisms and Machine Sciences (IFToMM) (2016-), the vice chairman of the Mechanisms Committee of the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, the vice chairman of the Guangdong Mechanical Engineering Society, and the vice chairman of the Intelligent Manufacturing Technology Committee of the Chinese Society of Artificial Intelligence, etc. He is also a member of the ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Automotive Engineering. His research fields include robot mechanism, precision positioning and precision operation system, precision electronic equipment and modern control technology.

He is a recipient of National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and is currently the deputy director of Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Integrated Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SIAT). At present, he is mainly engaged in the research of basic theories and key technologies of human-machine fusion service robots, and has published more than 260 papers in international journals in the field of robotics such as IEEE TSMC, TASE, TMECH, and international robotics conferences such as ICRA, IROS, etc. He has also published two monographs in English, including Household Service Robotics, and has authorized 63 patents for his inventions. He has been authorized 63 national invention patents. He is currently responsible for the key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), National Key R&D Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (MOST), and Guangdong Key R&D Program. He is a member of the Expert Group for the Implementation Plan and Guideline Preparation of the National Key R&D Program "Intelligent Robotics", an expert for the Guideline Preparation of the National Key R&D Program "Risk Prevention, Control and Emergency Response Technology and Equipment", and a deputy leader of the Advisory Expert Group for the Major Special Project on Intelligent Robotics in Guangdong Province. He is also the deputy head of the consulting expert group of Guangdong Intelligent Robotics Program. He is currently serving as an editorial board member of several international journals, including IEEE TSMC, TASE and RA-Letters.

Prof. Xinyu Wu

Prof. Guilin Yang

Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology&Engineering,Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Currently, Prof. Yang is the deputy director of Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology & Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is also an expert of National Talent Plan and Outstanding Mid-aged Experts of Zhejiang Province. He has been engaged in the research of mechatronics, robotics and manufacturing automation for a long time, and his main research interests include precision electromagnetic drives, flexible micro-nano manipulation robots, modular reconfigurable robots, rope-driven robots and industrial robots. He had been in charge of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) top-level and joint-funded projects, key deployment projects of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the STS project of CAS, the high-end innovation team project of Ningbo City, as well as a number of enterprise cooperation projects. He has published more than 330 academic papers, more than 10 book chapters, 2 books (co-authored), 2 books (co-edited) and a volume of manuals, and more than 130 domestic and foreign patents. He was awarded the R&D 100 Awards in 2014, the First Prize of China Industry-University-Research Cooperation Innovation Achievement in 2018, the Gold Medal of China Good Design in 2020, the First Prize of Ningbo Science and Technology Progress Award in 2020, and the China Patent Award of Excellence in 2022, and so on.

He is a professor at Anhui University, a senior member of IEEE, the executive deputy director of "Anhui Engineering Laboratory of Human-Machine Integration Systems and Intelligent Equipment", an automation technology consultant for many governmental organizations and high-tech enterprises, and a senior researcher at the former Agency for Science, Technology and Research (ASTAR) in Singapore. His main research areas are precision mechanisms and micro-assembly systems for chip manufacturing, dexterous grasping of intelligent robots, cooperative robots with integrated operation, power-assisted exoskeletons and serpentine robots, etc. He is leading a team that focuses on the national strategic needs. He is leading a team that focuses on the cross-fertilization of innovative technologies of mechanism, actuation, sensing and control in the above fields for the national strategic needs. With more than 30 years of research experience, he specializes in applying "mechanical intelligence" to solve adaptive problems in precision assembly and robot manipulation. He has led and participated in 5 National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) projects and more than a dozen other government and industry-funded projects on robot manipulation and assembly. He has published more than 100 high-level academic papers and holds more than 20 authorized invention patents.

Prof. Wenjie Chen

Anhui University, China

Prof. Shaoping Bai

Aalborg University  (AAU), Denmark

Shaoping Bai is a full professor at Department of Materials and Production, Aalborg University  (AAU), Denmark. His research interests include wearable sensors, medical and assistive robots, and exoskeletons. Prof. Bai leads several national and international research projects in exoskeletons, including EU AXO-SUIT and IFD Grand Solutions project EXO-AIDER, and Danish Independent Research Council project VIEXO, among others. He is a recipient of  IEEE  CIS-RAM 2017 Best Paper Award, IFToMM MEDER 2018 Best Application Paper Award and WearRAcon2018 Grand Prize of Innovation Challenges. Prof. Bai was an associate editor of ASME J. of Mechanisms and Robotics, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, and is an associator editor of Robotica. He is the founder of BioX ApS, an AAU spin-off on wearable technologies. He is an elected member of IFToMM Executive Council and serves as a deputy chair of IFToMM Denmark.