The Intelligent Medical Robotics Technology Platform is based on the integration of medical and engineering disciplines, addressing the needs of clinical diagnosis and rehabilitation for elderly diseases with precision medicine. By combining robotics, artificial intelligence, and other multidisciplinary technologies, this platform aims to become a leading national medical-engineering integration technology platform. It has pioneered the development of therapist-mimicking rehabilitation robots, minimally invasive single-hole brain surgery robots, and intelligent and standardized research in traditional Chinese medicine diagnostics.
Our laboratory has developed prototypes and systems including ankle rehabilitation robots, wrist-finger rehabilitation robots, support robots, coordination training robots, and controllable flexible surgical robots. Additionally, we have initially developed a patient gait quantitative evaluation system. Our laboratory is equipped with EMG systems, foot pressure detection systems, and three-dimensional gait detection equipment, providing the necessary hardware support for future product development. In terms of external collaboration, we have established strong cooperative relationships with numerous research institutions, including Harvard University, Waseda University, City University of Hong Kong, South China University of Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, and the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
In the field of rehabilitation robotics, our team has moved beyond the traditional development model based on normal patient movement, focusing instead on therapist-mimicking perspectives. By using therapists as research subjects, we develop intelligent rehabilitation robots and construct patient quantitative evaluation systems. This approach shifts the current reliance on subjective doctor assessments to more objective metrics, providing quantitative data and support for the construction of expert systems in rehabilitation diagnostics. To date, our team has applied for over 70 patents, including more than 20 granted invention patents and 2 international patents. We have published over 70 papers and developed prototypes and systems such as ankle rehabilitation robots, wrist-finger rehabilitation robots, support robots, and coordination training robots. The ankle rehabilitation robot, in particular, has been recognized by the Guangdong Provincial Expert Committee for its leading technology and has entered the clinical trial phase.
In the area of surgical robots, we have developed minimally invasive hybrid parallel mechanical hands, controllable flexible surgical actuators, and prototype systems for minimally invasive surgical robots. We have applied for and obtained 32 patents, including 16 invention patents under substantive examination, and published over 30 SCI/EI papers. In the realm of intelligent traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) diagnostics, our team has successfully developed an intelligent robot for pediatric massage training and an intelligent robot for TCM tongue and facial diagnosis. We have pioneered the establishment of pediatric massage technique models and TCM syndrome tongue and facial diagnostic models, applying for and obtaining 5 patents and publishing over 20 papers.
Additionally, we are developing modern intelligent medical devices for TCM diagnostics, including TCM tongue diagnosis robots, TCM facial diagnosis robots, bionic TCM massage robots, and multifunctional TCM moxibustion and massage robots. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the team has developed multifunctional TCM disinfection and alert robots, non-invasive high-efficiency biosample collection robots, and molecular robots for COVID-19 detection.
