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Atlas getting ready for DARPA Robotics Challenge

May 20, 2015

Atlas is Back! Built by the Boston Dynamics Incorporation in the USA, HKU’s Atlas is one of the 7 full-sized humanoid Atlas robots in the world. Research on humanoid robots serves as one of the objectives...
Mechanical Engineering researchers achieve breakthrough in automobile steel

May 14, 2015

A research team led by Dr. Huang Mingxin at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of HKU has developed a new generation of ultrahigh strength steels. The innovation has met, 10 years in advance, the...
Outreach on 3D Printing

May 5, 2015

Over 100 people from the education sectors, NGOs and industry participated in the "HKU symposium on 3D Printing for Education" which was held on May 5, 2015...
Awarded to research into electrochemical actuation of nanoporous materials

May 1, 2015

Dr. Chuan Cheng, a Postdoctoral Fellow and a 2013 PhD graduate at Prof. Alfonso H. W. Ngan’s research group at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been awarded the prestigious Humboldt Research...
Research students get international biomedical engineering awards

Professor Min Wang’s research group in biomedical engineering received Best Student Paper Competition Award and Best Young Scientist Award in international conferences

Apr 7, 2015

Dr. Chong Wang, a member of Prof. Min Wang’s group in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, was Champion of the Best Student Paper Competition Award at the BME2014 Biomedical Engineering International...
Teachers and researchers awarded for excellence

Mar 30, 2015

The Award Presentation Ceremony for Excellence in Teaching, Research and Knowledge Exchange 2014 was held on March 30, 2015 at Lok Yew Hall. This year, Prof. Yuguo Li, Head of Department of Mechanical...
Young Faculty members joining the Advanced Robotics Initiative

Mar 17, 2015

HKU Engineering has set up the “Advanced Robotics Initiative” with a vision that it will become one of the most exciting multi-disciplinary initiatives in the Faculty. A wide range of research activities...
Breakthrough technology in wireless power transfer

Mar 4, 2015

Prof. Ron Hui, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and the Wireless Domino Power Transfer Systems. Prof. Ron Hui’s latest breakthrough on wireless charging technology has been widely...
Aqueous interface capturing Beethoven pieces and inaudible notes

Feb 22, 2015

A group of Mechanical Engineering undergraduate students at HKU, under the guidance of the department's Assistant Professor Dr Anderson Shum, has successfully “captured” Beethoven’s 5th symphony with...
Congratulations on winning 2 Collaborative Research Fund projects

Feb 12, 2015

Professor X Y Li and Dr Wallace Choy representing respectively Departments of Civil Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering were awarded Collaborative Research Fund projects by the Research...

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