Glad to showcase about our latest projects to Prof. Russell H. Taylor and Prof. Peter Kazanzides from Johns Hopkins University! 

Happy to join Prof. Jinrong LIU during the 2-day workshop in University of Macau

Good time in Hangzhou 😀

Conference Paper selected as a finalist for the Lotfi Zadeh Best Paper Award! Congrats to team!

Best Design Award in Surgical Robot Challenge at The Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics 2025. Congrats to the team!

Honored to be one of the six CUHK Projects awarded with funding in the second round of ITC's RAISe+ Scheme. Link

This is our 2nd time to join the symposium! Nice time at HKSTP.

Prof. Kwok served as panel discussion moderator at Hong Kong International Medical Device Regulatory Forum on 28 May. 

World's first robot-assisted en bloc resection of bladder tumour with locally developed endoscopic surgical robot system Link

Our PhD graduate, Owen & Jing conferred their degrees at the congregation ceremony. Congrats to Dr. Ng and Dr. Dai!

Dr. Lin Lin and Dr. Yamin Wang joined us as Post-doctoral Fellows!

Prof. Kwok has started his new position as Professor at Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Press conference held in InnoWing2, HKU on 22 May for 2nd generation of our neuro robot. News Clipping check out at: Press Release

Group IRIS attended MRC Symposium 2024 in HK, followed by ICRA 2024 in Yokohama, Japan. We got awards at the Conferences! Congrats to Xiangkai and Yifeng! Awards

Press Release featured our intra-op MRI robot in neurosurgery is published.Check that out at: Press Release

Our PhD, Yingqi Li has completed her exchange journey at Technical University of Munich, TUM in Germany. Let's give a big welcome to her!

A paper with PhD, Jing Dai and RAP, Dr. Bohao Zhu as co-first author accepted by RA-L.

A paper with PhD graduate, Liam He as first author accepted by Advanced Science.Another with Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Chenchen Fan as first author accepted by IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems.

Our MPhil graduate Jason Mak conferred his degree at the congregation ceremony.Congrats to him again!

Dr. Yifang Zhang joined us as Post-doctoral Fellow. Warm welcome to her 😀

Our publication on TRO was awarded the Best Experimental Paper by SCRN. Dr. Kwok, on behalf of the team, presented our work at the 7th Annual Meeting of SCRN on 19 Oct 2023 in Washington D.C.. Congratulations to team! See Awards

Xiangkai Ouyang joined us as PhD student. Welcome Xiangkai!

Prof. Peter Kazanzides from Johns Hopkins University visited our lab during his visit to Hong Kong.

Our PhD, Yingqi Li set off for her 6-month exchange at TUM. Wish her a fruitful journey!

Zhiyi Jiang joined IRIS as PhD student. Welcome Zhiyi!

Our Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Bohao Zhu promoted to RAP! Congrats to Bohao 😀

Our innovation won a Silver Medal in 48th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva. Congratulations to team! See Awards

Prof. Iordachita from Johns Hopkins University visited our lab during his visit to Hong Kong.

Thesis of our PhD graduate, Dr. Ge Fang was awarded Best Thesis Award 2020-21 by the Department of Mechanical Engineering, HKU.

Our paper on Science Robotics was awarded the Research Output Prize! Congratulations to team! See Awards

Dr. Menglong Ye from Moon Surgical gave a talk to our members and fellows at the Department

Group IRIS attended IROS 2022 in Kyoto! This is the first conference we attended overseas after the pandemic.

Dr. Kwok gave a tech talk for Faculty's InnoWing TechTalk Series on 2 Jun, and a talk for Hong Kong Institute of Science & Innovation, Chinese Academy of Science on 25 Jun.

Dr. Xiaoqi Song joined IRIS as Post-Doctoral Fellow.

Dr. Kwok gave a talk for RSC Distinguished Scholar Sharing Series, Faculty of Engineering, HKU

Dr. Kwok gave a talk for School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London, UK.

​Dr. Kwok gave a talk in for Engineering Medical Innovation Summit: Medicine for the Future 2021(EMedI Summit 2021) in Hong Kong Science Park 

Libaihe Tian and Yifeng Hao joined IRIS as PhD students.

The team has announced latest innovation, Soft Robotic Manipulator for Intra-operative MRI-guided Transoral Laser Microsurgery in a Press Conference on 9 Sep 2021!

Dr. Kwok gave a talk at Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics 2021 Workshop: Soft, smart, multifunctional, agile and aware surgical robots: Progress and technologies

​Dr. Kwok gave a talk at ICRA 2021 Workshop: Impact of COVID-19 on Medical Robotics and Wearables Research. 

Group's invention was awarded Silver Medal in Special Edition 2021 Inventions Geneva Evaluation Days. Respective innovation is now licensed to spin-off Momentus Robotics! Congratulations to team! See Awards

Dr. Kwok was awarded as one of the Outstanding Young Researcher Award by HKU for his outstanding accomplishment in R&D. See Awards

Dr. Kwok was awarded the Actuators 2020 Young Investigator Award for his contribution to the field of MR-based actuation technologies. Congratulations to him! See Awards

Ying-Qi Li joined IRIS as PhD student.

Dr. Kwok gave a talk for WEISS Virtual Mini-Symposium: Robotics in Surgery.

Dr. Kwok gave a talk for Shenzhen Institute of Artificial and Intelligence and Robotics for Society (AIRS), CUHK (SZ).

Congratulation to Chimlee Cheung for his new paper published in TMECH! Also to Zhuoliang He and Xiaomei Wang for their new papers published in RA-L!