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Dandan is serving as Programme Co-Chair of IEEE ROBIO 2026.

PI & Recognition · Dandan is serving as Programme Co-Chair of IEEE ROBIO 2026, helping shape the robotics and biomimetics research programme.

Our PhysLadder preprint introduces 16 tasks for evaluating physical robot interaction.

Research Highlights · PhysLadder introduces 16 matched simulation and real-world tasks to evaluate physical interaction across increasing manipulation difficulty.

Dandan gave a keynote at the BMVA Human Behaviour Understanding symposium.

PI & Recognition · Dandan gave an invited keynote at the BMVA symposium on Human Behaviour Understanding in London on 30 September.

Dandan co-organised the Safe World Models workshop at ECCV 2026.

Lab & Community · Dandan co-organised Safe World Models for Trustworthy Embodied AI at ECCV 2026 in Malmö on 9 September.

Our i-Tac inverse-design paper appeared in Advanced Intelligent Systems.

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Our soft robotic finger paper won the ICAC 2026 Best Student Paper Award.

Student & Alumni Achievements · Our compact 3D-printed soft finger with cyclic hydraulic actuation received the Best Student Paper Award at ICAC 2026.

Dandan co-organised the Physical World Models workshop at IROS 2026.

Lab & Community · Dandan co-organised Physical World Models for Scaling Embodied AI at IROS 2026 in Pittsburgh on 1 October.

Our TacVerse tactile benchmark was published in Advanced Robotics Research.

Research Highlights · Published in Advanced Robotics Research, TacVerse brings together 106,800 tactile images from seven sensors for cross-sensor perception.

Our PixelTac paper was published in Communications Engineering.

Research Highlights · Published in Communications Engineering, PixelTac combines tactile sensing and computation within a vision-based sensor.

Dandan spoke on contact mechanics and tactile intelligence at Tsinghua University.

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