In 2026, Dandan gave invited university seminars at Peking University, Tsinghua University and Durham University, on tactile intelligence, contact-rich manipulation and physically

Dandan Zhang contributed to Imperial Magazine’s Stargazing feature on artificial general intelligence. The article examines potential benefits for research alongside limitations in

Dandan Zhang gave an invited keynote at the BMVA Symposium on Human Behaviour Understanding: From Models to Real-World Deployment, held at the British Computer Society in London.

Dandan Zhang co-organised the IROS workshop on Physical World Models for Scaling Embodied AI. The workshop explored how physical experience can support robot learning, simulation,

Dandan Zhang co-organised and co-chaired the ECCV 2026 workshop on safe world models in Malmö on 9 September 2026.

Untethered micro and nano robotics for healthcare applications Introduction This workshop will focus on the current challenges and developments in the field of untethered micro/nano robotics for healthcare applications, with a particular emphasis on the integration of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) in these systems. The use of untethered devices in medical applications has the potential to revolutionize the way we diagnose and treat various conditions, b

Date/location: 28-30 June 2022, Bristol, UK Website: phase2022.org We are very pleased to announce the Perspectives in Hybrid Autonomous Systems Engineering (PHASE 2022) in-person symposium, which will bring together experts from academia and industry to discuss and debate what the next generations of autonomous systems will look like - systems that must be designed to have the human in or on the loop. Themes will range across human factors, systems, architecture, ethics, tr

We organized a workshop for 2022 Hamlyn Symposium. The medical robotics field is making a solid road towards its quest of non-invasive and non-disruptive surgical technologies to provide safe, effective and seamless therapies. The surgical technology has advanced various methodologies to transfer and enhance the surgeon’s dexterity to the surgical site while reducing soft tissue trauma. This has been achieved by breaking down and transforming the complex surgeon-robot-tissue

Title: Human-Robot Interaction in Unstructured and Dynamic Environments Organizers: Dr. Dandan Zhang et al Time: 12:30pm – 3:00pm, 25th March Invited Participants: Tactile Robotics Group at UoB (PIs, Postdoc Researchers, PhDs, MScs, Interns) Teleoperation Group at UWE (PIs, Postdoc Researchers, PhDs, MScs, Interns) Data Science Group/AI Group/VI Group at UoB (PIs, PhDs, Interns) Main Objective: This workshop aims to put the ‘Human-Robot Interaction in Unstructured and Dyn