Meet our masterful machines
Science fiction writer Isaac Asimov, author of such futuristic works as I, Robot, would have been impressed. For here was a robot capable of crawling through cramped ventilation ducts for inspection and cleaning, a robotic petrol-filling station, a fearless robot that can scale the walls of high-rise buildings and clean windows, and a robotic muscle arm for nursing, just to name a few.
Dr Simon Wong, the Chief Executive Officer of Hong Kong Advanced Science and Technology Research Institute Ltd, Professor Roderick Wong, Dean of Faculty of Science and Engineering at CityU, and Professor Xu Yang-Shen, Acting Dean of Faculty of Engineering at CU, officiated at the opening ceremony.
The 22 sessions at the Conference covered a wide range of design and application activities in mechatronics and machine vision locally and globally. All the sessions organized at the Conference were closely related to the practical applications and latest R & D activities in their respective fields. In addition to presentations at the Conference, the organizers also offered a series of demonstrations at the Service Robotics Research Laboratory at CityU.