The organizing committee of the 2022 First MedBot® Robotic “Da Mai Cup” Geek Innovation Contest awarded second prize to PU Tanhong, LI Haoyu, master students of Mechanical Engineering of ZJUI, class of 2021, WANG Tiexin, doctoral student of ZJUI, class of 2020, and WU Zheyu, ZJUI undergraduate, class of 2022.  With Liangjing YANG, Assistant Professor and researcher at ZJUI, serving as the team leader, the project entitled“MR-based Visual System for Cellular micromanipulation”  applied mixed reality technology (MR technology) to real-time cellular operation  through system construction. Thisvisualization of the operation processbrings+new insight into cell operation experimentation and enables Precision Medicine.

▲ MR operation demonstration: the needle tip will follow the finger click position to move and interact with cells

Based on MR technology, the system independently developed and built by ZJUI team allows the visualization of the operation process and can precisely interact with cells in real time. The team’s contribution lies in the development of (1) a procedure that automatically finds needles and positions the tip, (2) a self-calibrating/recalibration method in complex background, (3) intuitive multi-axis control model, and (4) precision operation in complex environments. After review, the project of “MR-based Visual System for Cellular micromanipulation” won the second prize in the competition.

▲ "MR-based Visual System for Cellular micromanipulation" independently developed and built by ZJUI team

The competition is hosted by Shanghai MedBot® (Group) Co., Ltd., guided and supported by Medical Robot Branch of China Association for Medical Devices Industry, Technical Committee on Artificial Intelligence of Shanghai Computer Society, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of MedBot®. The contest focuses on the application of medical robot-related technologies (robotics, sensors, AI, medical imaging, and hardware design, etc.) to actual clinical problems and explores in-depth innovative application solutions.

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