Conference
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IEEE Robosoft 2025 Art Gallery Award: The Breath of a GRACE
A big congratulations to Sweder van Dipten and Ming Chun Chan for winning the art gallery award for the second year in a row with their art installation titled “breath of a GRACE”. This project was a collaboration with artist brian LAU. With 18 three-dimensional artworks and 11 photographic artworks…
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Attend RoboSoft 2026
[Reposted from PI’s LinkedIn] Great to be back at RoboSoft! I enjoyed attending, and giving a talk at, the ‘Soft Transitions: Soft Robots for Land, Amphibious, Underwater Locomotion’ workshop organized by Saravana Prashanth Murali Babu, Poramate Manoonpong, Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio, and Kotaro Yasui. Congratulations to our HKUST Integrative Systems and Design…
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Toward Octopus-inspired Whole arm Manipulation: A Sliding Pseudo-joint for Soft Pneumatic Robot Arm
Author list: Yucheng Luo; Ming Chun Chan; Dickson Chiu Yu Wong; Yuchen Liang; Rob B.N. Scharff Published in: 2025 IEEE 8th International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft) Whole arm manipulation with soft robot arms is a challenging problem because, in contrast to traditional robot arms with grippers mounted at the…
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Outstanding Arts Exhibit 1st Place (RoboSoft 2025)
“Reciprocal Touch: The Art of Connection,” won at the 2025 Art Expo of the International Conference on Soft Robotics. Led by Sweder van Dipten (MPhil Year 1) and supported by Ming Chun Chan (PhD Year 1), Yuchen LIANG (PhD Year 1), and Mulan YU from Hefei University of Technology under…
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Attended IEEE RoboSoft 2025
Looking back on a wonderful 2025 IEEE RoboSoft in Lausanne, with a packed but fantastically organized program by Chairs Josie Hughes and Cosimo Della Santina! It was great to reconnect with familiar faces as well as meet many new ones.Our team contributed a paper by Yucheng LUO, an extended abstract…
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Autonomy Award RoboSoft 2024
Our lab’s team (Team RobUST) attended RoboSoft 2024 Fruit Salad Competition and won the Autonomy Award
