
HKU triumphed at the 49th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva, winning a total of 42 awards, including two special grand prizes. Among the 42 awards, our faculty members had bagged 16 of them.

Project name: SmartRehab – An automated telerehabilitation solution
Faculty member: Dr Wilton Fok, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and
Hong Kong Sport AI Laboratory
Award: Gold Medal with Congratulation of the Jury

Project name: SpImage: Large-scale Spinning Imaging for Intelligent Rapid Cell Screening
Faculty member: Professor Kevin Tsia, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Award: Gold Medal

Project name: Scalable wafer-scale ultra-flat ultra-flexible diamond membrane
Faculty members: Professor Zhiqin Chu and Mr Jing Jixiang, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Award: Gold Medal

Project name: Hybrid pose adjustment (HyPA) robot for assembly process in modular integrated construction (MiC)
Faculty members: Professor Li Xiao and Mr Jiang Ruiqi, Department of Civil Engineering
Award: Gold Medal

Project name: Strain-assisted doping of diamond
Faculty member: Professor Yang Lu, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Award: Gold Medal

Project name: Flexible microneedle electrodes enabling precise, invasive and long-term biopotential monitoring
Faculty member: Professor Wen-Di Li, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Award: Gold Medal

Project name: Next-Gen Mg-ion battery: Low cost and High Energy Density
Faculty member: Professor Wending Pan, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Award: Gold Medal

Project names:
(1) Smart Fixture-free 2D Sewing System with Automatic Fabric Alignment
(2) Passive Actuator-Less (PAL) Gripper for Fabric Picking
(3) Neuromorphic Enhanced Vision System for Challenging Light and Motion Conditions
Faculty member: Professor Kazuhiro Kosuge, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Awards: Silver Medals

Project name: Smart Polarisation and Spectroscopic Holography (SPLASH) system for microplastic assessment
Faculty members: Professor Edmund Lam, Dr Yuxing Li and Dr Jianqing Huang, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Award: Silver Medal

Project name: Ultrasensitive Rapid Antigen Tests
Faculty members: Professor Anderson Shum and Dr Cao Yang, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Award: Silver Medal
Project name: Saliva Mental: Dog Wellness Assessment Ball
Faculty member: Professor Anderson Shum, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Award: Silver Medal
Project name: Flowformer
Faculty members: Professor Anderson Shum and Dr Zhenyu Yang, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Award: Silver Medal
Project name: Fibro-gel: Novel personalized wound dressing
Faculty members: Professor Anderson Shum and Dr Yanting Shen, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Award: Silver Medal
Project name: AutoLAMP: an automated point-of-care RT-LAMP Respiratory Virus Detection Device
Faculty members: Professor Anderson Shum and Dr Sammer Ul Hassan, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Award: Bronze Medal
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