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Future robots need no motors HKU Engineering invents world’s first nickel-hydroxide actuating material that can be triggered by both light and electricity

A mechanical engineering team led by Professor Alfonso Ngan Hing-wan published an article in Science Robotics on 30 May 2018 (EST) that introduces a novel actuating material – nickel hydroxide-oxyhydroxide – that can be powered by visible (Vis) light, electricity, and other stimuli.
World’s first intra-operative MRI-guided robot for bilateral stereotactic neurosurgery

A HKU Mechanical Engineering team led by Dr. Kwok Ka-wai recently designed the first neurosurgical robotic system capable of performing bilateral stereotactic neurosurgery inside a magnetic resonance imaging (“MRI”) scanner.
MRI-guided surgical robot project wins best award in leading international robotics conference

A HKU engineering team led by Dr Kwok Ka-wai of Mechanical Engineering was conferred the Best Conference Paper Award in the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2018 (ICRA 2018), which was just held in Brisbane, Australia, from May 21 to 25, 2018.
HKU scholar Professor Ed X. Wu receives the 12^th Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Prize by the CAE

Professor Ed X. Wu, Chair Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Lam Woo Professor in Biomedical Engineering at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, received the 12th Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Prize by the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE).
HKU AI team wins “Facebook Low Resource Neural Machine Translation Award”

An HKU team led by Professor Victor Li On-Kwok has won the prestigious international award, “The Facebook Low Resource Neural Machine Translation Award”.
Technical Achievement Award by the IEEE EMC Society at 2018 Joint IEEE EMC & APEMC Symposium

Dr Jiang Lijun received the Technical Achievement Award by the IEEE EMC Society at 2018 Joint IEEE EMC & APEMC Symposium in Singapore, while Dr Li Ping received the 2018 Outstanding Young Research Scientist Award by IEEE APEMC.
HKU Engineering Delegation revisited Sichuan for the Earthquake 10-years-on

A HKU delegation revisited two reconstructed schools served by our students in the last decade and shared the reconstruction projects with the HKSAR Chief Executive and the delegates in Sichuan University.
HKU holds Long Service Awards Presentation Ceremony to recognise over 240 staff members

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