PAIR Distinguished Lecture: Prof. Dai Jiansheng of King’s College London delivers “Embedded Intelligence in Robotics
PAIR Distinguished Lecture Series
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Date
15 Sep 2025
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Organiser
PolyU Academy for Interdisciplinary Research
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Time
14:30 - 16:00
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Venue
Senate Room (M1603), 16/F, Li Ka Shing Tower, PolyU (Limited seats are available on a first-come, first-served basis) Map
Speaker
Prof. Dai Jiansheng
Enquiry
PolyU Academy for Interdisciplinary Research info.pair@polyu.edu.hk
Summary
Abstract
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Metamorphosis is a natural attribute that has been inherent in species evolution and survival throughout time. The realization of metamorphosis in robot structures is a core for structural intelligence that integrates with computational intelligence to achieve a genuine embodied intelligence to match the current rise of the artificial intelligence in the world. By obviating the need for adding components or disassembling a structure, metamorphism imparts on a mechanism a disruptive change in its structure, thereby completely altering traditional structural design. This constitutes a paradigm shift with respect to current robot design trends – which have resulted in the fundamental structures of robots remaining immutable since the world’s first robot appeared in 1959 – engendering a series of metamorphic robots that undergo deformation, structural change, topological variation, and degree of freedom alteration. The talk presents the trends and discoveries.
Prof. DAI Jiansheng
- FREng, MAE, FIEEE, FASME, FIMechE, FRSA, CEng
- Chair Professor at King’s College London, UK
- Dean of Institute of Robotics, South University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), China
- Chair Professor at SUSTech–KCL Joint School, Dean of Institute of Robotics
Prof. DAI Jiansheng is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng), a Member of Academia Europaea (MAE) and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (FRSA). He is FASME, FIEEE and ROBOTICA EiC. A pioneering figure in reconfigurable mechanisms and robots, origami robots, metamorphic robots, and the integrated Klein structure of Lie bracket for robotics, he was the 27th recipient since 1974 of the ASME DED Mechanisms and Robotics Award (2015), the 58th recipient and the first Chinese recipient of the ASME Machine Design Award (2020) since 1958, the 15th recipient of the IFToMM Award of Merit (2023) since 2003. Published over 700 peer-reviewed papers and 7 monographs, Prof Dai has guided over 100 PhD students and Postdoctoral researchers.
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