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  • [11/2026]    [Service] Dandan is serving as Programme Co-Chair of IEEE ROBIO 2026.
    Conference committee

  • [11/2026]    [Award] Our paper “A Compact 3D-Printed Soft Finger with Cyclic Hydraulic Actuation” received the Best Student Paper Award at ICAC 2026. Congratulations to the team!
    Paper

  • [10/2026]    [Preprint] Our PhysLadder preprint introduces a matched simulation-and-real-world benchmark for contact-rich robotic manipulation.
    arXiv

  • [10/2026]    [Event] Dandan co-organised the IROS 2026 workshop “Physical World Models for Scaling Embodied AI”, held in Pittsburgh on 1 October.
    Workshop

  • [09/2026]    [Talk] Dandan was an invited keynote speaker at the BMVA symposium “Human Behaviour Understanding: From Models to Real-World Deployment” in London on 30 September.
    Programme

  • [09/2026]    [Paper] TacVerse was published in Advanced Robotics Research, introducing 106,800 tactile images from seven sensors for studying cross-sensor tactile perception. Congratulations to Lan and the team!
    Paper

  • [09/2026]    [Event] Dandan co-organised the ECCV 2026 workshop “Safe World Models for Trustworthy Embodied AI”, held in Malmö on 9 September. Many thanks to our co-organisers, speakers, and contributors!
    Workshop

  • [09/2026]    [Paper] PixelTac was published in Communications Engineering, combining tactile sensing with in-sensor computing. Congratulations to Wen and the team!
    Paper

  • [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]    [Paper] Our review on embodied cross-domain intelligence in biomedical microrobots was published in Cyborg and Bionic Systems. Congratulations to Zongcai, Lan, Kangyi, and the team!
    Paper

  • [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.

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