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• [07/2026]    [Open Source] Congratulations to RoboDojo Team for releasing a Unified Sim-and-Real Benchmark for Comprehensive Evaluation of Generalist Robot Manipulation Policies.
  arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.04434
  XPolicyLab code: https://github.com/XPolicyLab/XPolicyLab
  Community: https://robodojo-benchmark.com/community

• [07/2026]    [Open Source] Congratulations to SoftVTBench Team for releasing a Safety-Aware Visuo-Tactile Benchmark for Physically Constrained Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Objects.
  arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.04234

• [06/2026]    [News] I enjoyed the ARIA Robot Locomotion workshop in York.

• [06/2026]    [News] I am delighted to visit CNRS for PhD viva examination and research collaboration. Congratulations to Alaa!

• [06/2026]    [Paper] 3 papers accepted by IROS'2026! Congratulation and many thanks to all co-authors!

• [06/2026]    [Recruitment] 1 fully funded PhD position is available. Interested applicants are encouraged to get in touch.

• [06/2026]    [Recruitment] I am delighted to host an AI for Science Research Fellow and MSCA Research Fellow in my group. Please contact me if you are interested in working with me.

• [06/2026]    [Recruitment] One PDRA position is available for Deep Learning-based Real-Time 3D Ultrasound Image Processing Research. Interested applicants are encouraged to get in touch.

• [06/2026]    [Event] 6 students from our group attended ICRA'2026 and presented their projects this year.

• [06/2026]    [Recruitment] I plan to recruit a Research Assistant, co-supervised with Prof. Mengxing Tang, to work on 3D ultrasound and deep learning.

• [06/2026]    [Open Source] Our group has released codes for our ICRA'2026 papers.
  Microrobot Code Link: https://github.com/dianzdd123/Micro_Object_Sim2Real_ICRA_v2
  MultiDiffSense Code Link: https://github.com/dianzdd123/MultiDiffSense 
  ADM_DP Code Link: https://github.com/dianzdd123/ADM_DP

• [05/2026]    [Event] I am delighted to attend an AI Forum organised by CBAIA.

• [05/2026]    [News] I am delighted to receive the certificate to celebrate the graduation form the Media Training programme.

• [05/2026]    [News] Congratulations to Sara, who has been awarded a UROP scholarship and will join our team as a summer intern.

• [05/2026]    [Event] I am delighted to know that our workshop proposal entitled 'Safe World Models for Trustworthy Embodied AI' has been accepted by 2026 IROS. Many thanks to my co-organisers!

• [05/2026]    [Talk]  Dandan is delighted to be an invited speaker at a RSS workshop entitled 'Bridging AI and Robotics for Safer & Smarter Healthcare', which will take place in Sydney, Australia. Website: https://sites.google.com/view/ai-and-healthcare-robotics/

• [05/2026]    [Talk]  I am delighted to be invited to give a keynote talk at the upcoming BMVA'2026 Symposium on Human Behaviour Understanding: From Models to Real-World Deployment.

• [05/2026]    [Event] 2026 ECCV Workshop website is now available: https://trustworthy-world-models.github.io/ECCV2026/

• [05/2026]    [Paper] Congrats, Zongcai, Lan! Accepted paper has been nominated by the best conference paper at 2026 MARSS!

• [05/2026]    [Paper] 1 paper accepted by ICML'2026. Thanks my collaborators!

• [05/2026]    [Event] I am delighted to organise the Female Academic Network event with a topic of EU/UK fellowship for early career researchers.

• [04/2026]    [Paper] 1 paper accepted by RSS'2026. Thanks my collaborators!

• [04/2026]    [Event] Dandan is delighted to attend Imperial Media as One programme.

• [04/2026]    [Paper] Congrats, Yongchen, Kangyi, Lan! Paper accepted by MARSS'2026!

• [04/2026]    [Grant] Dandan is delighted to receive the AI in Science / Lab Automation Event Fund towards CLAW (Collaborative Lab Automation Workshop) organisation. 

• [04/2026]    [Event] Dandan is delighted to announce that our ECCV'2026 workshop proposal has been accepted. Many thanks to all the co-organizers for their joint efforts, and we look forward to the invited talks by all the speakers.

• [04/2026]    [Award] Congrats, Zongcai for winning Imperial Travel Grant for 2026 ICRA!

• [04/2026]    [Paper] Congrats, Zongcai, Lan! Paper was accepted by 2026 MARSS!

• [04/2026]    [Visit] It is our great pleasure to welcome Dr Antoine Barbot and his PhD student, Valentin, from Femto-ST, CNRS, to visit our lab and attend CNRS-Imperial joint activities.

• [04/2026]    [Talk] Dandan is delighted to give a talk on multimodal perception for robotic manipulation at the Tuojing Community World Model Forum.

• [04/2026]    [Grant] Dandan is proud to join Wellcome Trust Bioimaging Technology Development Award Project Led by Prof Mengxing Tang! Thanks to the joint efforts from the whole team!

• [04/2026]    [Paper] Congrats, Wen! Paper was accepted by Advanced Intelligent Systems.

• [04/2026]    [Award] Congrats, Lan for winning the IX-WAI award!

• [04/2026]    [Award] Congrats, Lan and Zongcai on being shortlisted for the Amazon Robotics Award!

• [04/2026]    [Interview] Dandan was featured in Imperial Magazine, where she participated in an interview on AGI.

• [03/2026]    [Member] Welcome Dr. Qiming Liu join our group as a visiting researcher.

• [03/2026]    [Talk] Dandan delivered an Invited Talk at the “Curie Forum” x “Jincheng Forum” Spring Special organised by the Marie Curie Chinese Scholars Association at the University of Oxford.

• [02/2026]    [Paper] Congrats, Zongcai, Kangyi, Lan! Paper was accepted by Cyborg and Bionic Systems.

• [01/2026]    [Event] Dandan served as a panel member for a roundtable discussion at the World Model Forum

• [01/2026]    [Talk] Dandan gave an invited talk at the 7th UK Manipulation workshop in Edinburgh

• [01/2026]    [Event] Thank you, @Lan, for helping me design a new website for dissemination of our microrobotics research.
                     https://zhangrobotics.com/msei_website/​

• [01/2026]    [Paper] Congrats, 6 papers accepted by 2026 ICRA!

• [01/2026]    [Talk] Dandan was invited to give a talk and join a panel discussion at the RoboSoft 2026 workshop in Kanazawa, Japan

• [12/2025]    [Member] Welcome Mr. Piotr Blaszyk from AI for Healthcare CDT join our group as a PhD student.

• [12/2025]    [Paper] Congrats, 1 paper accepted by Advanced Intelligent System! Thanks to the whole team!

• [12/2025]    [Paper] Congrats, 1 paper accepted by IEEE TASE! Well done, Wen!

• [11/2025]    [Paper] Congrats, Lan Wei won the best student paper award finalist at IEEE CBS 2025.

• [11/2025]    [Event] Dandan gave 2 invited talks at IROS'2025 workshop.

• [11/2025]    [Event] Lan and I attended IROS'2025.

• [11/2025]    [Award] Dandan received the Novak New Generation Award at IROS'2025.

• [10/2025]    [Member] Welcome Ms. Kangyi Lu join our group as a PhD student.

• [10/2025]    [Member] Welcome Mr. Zongcai Tan join our group as a PhD student.

• [08/2025]    [Award] Congrats, Dr. Zhang and Lan Wei won the IROS'2025 IES SYPA Travel Fund.

• [08/2025]    [Paper] 1 paper accepted at the IEEE International Conference on Cyborg and Bionic Systems (CBS 2025)

• [07/2025]    [Open Source] Our group has released codes for our MARSS paper.
  Microrobot Code Link: https://lannwei.github.io/Optical-Microrobot-Database/

• [07/2025]    [Paper] Congrats, Lan Wei won the best student paper with the highest score at MARSS'2025.

• [07/2025]    [Event] We will organise the 1st Trustworthy Embodied Intelligence in Healthcare International Symposium at Imperial College, sponsored by Imperial-X

• [06/2025]    [Paper] 1 paper on patch clamp multi-pipette localisation accepted at IROS’2025.

• [05/2026]    [News] Congratulations to Jayla, who has been awarded a UROP scholarship and will join our team as a summer intern.

• [04/2025]    [Paper] 2 papers on microrobots were accepted at MARSS’2025.

• [03/2025]    [Grant] I submitted the ResearchFish at the end of the project funded by UKRI MRC.

• [03/2025]    [Event] Wen Fan was featured in the Imperial-X PhD Research Spotlight interview series.

• [02/2025]    [Event] We co-organised the 2nd MEIS Workshop at CVPR'2025.

• [02/2025]    [Paper] 2 papers accepted at ICRA’2025.

• [01/2025]    [Talk] Dandan gave an invited talk at the 6th UK Manipulation workshop.

• [01/2025]    [Paper] 1 paper accepted by the Cyborg and Bionic Systems.

• [01/2025]    [Award] Dandan was shortlisted for AI Visionaries 2025.

• [12/2024]    [Award] Congrats, Wen Fan won the Robotics Forum-Amazon PhD Prizes for Outstanding Achievement in Robotics!

• [10/2024]    [Grant] I am delighted to receive the Imperial-CNRS joint project funding to support PhD students for joint research activities.

• [10/2024]    [Member] Welcome Ms. Lan Wei join our group as a PhD student.