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| Oct 2026 | 🎉 Our paper, “Autonomous robotic exploration of unknown soft objects”, is featured on the cover of The International Journal of Robotics Research, Volume 45, Issue 12 (October 2026). |
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| Sep 29, 2026 | 📄 New preprint: CADeT: Causal-Aware Deformation Transmission for Indirect Robotic Manipulation of Soft Tissue. Explore the project page and experiment videos or read the paper on arXiv. |
| Aug 10, 2026 | 📊 Our DRENDS dataset for depth estimation in dynamic robotic endoscopy is published in Scientific Data. Read the paper and access the dataset on Zenodo. |
| Aug 04, 2026 | 📄 Our paper, Hybrid Geometric and Latent Shape Servoing for Autonomous Gallbladder Exposure, is featured at BioRob 2026 (August 1–4, Edmonton, Canada). Read the paper on IEEE Xplore. |
| Jun 23, 2026 | 🏆 Our University of Leeds team received the Champion Award for Task 1: Safe Needle Picking and the Best Demo Award for Task 3: Vessel Clipping at AutoSurg 2026, part of the MRC–Hamlyn Workshop in London. |
| Apr 22, 2026 | 📊 Open-H-Embodiment, a large-scale open dataset for medical robotics to which we contributed, has been released. Read the preprint and explore the dataset and project. |
| Mar 19, 2026 | 🎉 “Multiscale Deformable Objects Manipulation via Wavelet-Decomposed Boundary Element Method“ has been accepted by the International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR)! |
| Dec 16, 2025 | 🎉 “Autonomous Robotic Exploration on Unknown Soft Object“ has been accepted by the International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR)! |
| Nov 27, 2025 | 🎓 Thrilled to announce that I have successfully passed my PhD viva! And I am going to be a Research Fellow in medical robotics at Stormlab. |
| Oct 24, 2025 | 🎤 I co-presented a talk with Prof. Pietro Valdastri at the IROS 2025 workshop “Soft Tissue Manipulation in Robotic Surgery”, titled “From Conformation to Exploration: Advancing Autonomous Robotic Manipulation of Soft Organs in Laparoscopy” |