Recent Progress in Medical Miniature Robots: from Bench to Bedside

Li Zhang is a professor at the Department ofMechanical and Automation Engineering anda professor by courtesy at the Department ofSurgery at the Chinese University of HongKong (CUHK). He is a director at theSIAT—CUHK Joint Laboratory of Roboticsand Intelligent Systems, and a group leaderin the Multi-scale Medical Robotics Center(MRC), InnoHK, at the Hong Kong SciencePark. Dr. Zhang’s research interests includesmall-scale robotics and biomedical applications.He is elected as FIEEE, FRSC, FAAIA,FHKIE, a member of the Hong Kong YoungAcademy of Sciences, and an Outstanding Fellowof the Faculty of Engineering at CUHK.

Philip Wai Yan Chiu is currently the Dean ofthe Faculty of Medicine, Shun Hing Educationand Charity Fund Professor of Robotic Surgeryat CUHK, and the Director of MRCand Chow Yuk Ho Technology Centre forInnovative Medicine of CUHK. He is alsothe Director of Endoscopy at Prince of WalesHospital and the New Territories East Clusterof the Hong Kong Hospital Authority. Hisresearch interests include minimally invasiverobotic esophagectomy, novel endoscopictechnologies for the diagnosis of early GI cancers,endoscopic surgery, and robotics forendoluminal surgery.

Kai Fung Chan is a research assistant professorat the Chow Yuk Ho Technology Centrefor Innovative Medicine and MRC of CUHK.His research interests include medical miniaturedevices, micro-/nanorobotics, and translationalmedicine. He is also a co-founderof three start-up companies that are relatedto in vitro diagnostic devices, miniature medicaldevices, and medical microrobotictechnologies.