Biosyncretic Sensing, Actuation and Intelligence for Robotics
Distinguished Research Seminar Series
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Date
16 Apr 2025
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Organiser
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, PolyU
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Time
10:00 - 11:30
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Venue
Online via ZOOM
Speaker
Prof. Lianqing Liu
Remarks
Meeting link will be sent to successful registrants
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Summary
Intelligence can be categorized as silicon-based intelligence and carbon-based intelligence based on the material. Carbon-based intelligence evolves continuously from nature through biological evolution, while silicon-based intelligence emerges with the invention of computers and artificial neural networks. Recent breakthroughs in large models have demonstrated the remarkable abilities of silicon-based intelligence. However, if intelligence is defined as the ability to adapt to open situations under limited resources, the performance of silicon-based intelligence still lags significantly behind carbon-based intelligence under the same energy consumption. This talk introduces the research progress on exploring new intelligent paradigms through the fusion of biological and mechatronic systems at the cellular scale, including how to establish and optimize sensing and actuating components based on living cells using micro/nano manipulation technology, which lays the foundations that interacts with the external environment, and how to achieve an ex vivo brain by using bio-3D printing technology and brain organoid culture. Through integrating the cultured brain with cell based sensing/actuating components, a biosyncretic robot is developed and provides a novel approach for investigating artificial intelligence.
Keynote Speaker
Prof. Lianqing Liu
State Key Lab of Robotics, Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Lianqing Liu received his Ph.D. degree in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent System from university of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China in 2008, and B.S. degree in Industry Automation from Zhengzhou University, China in 2002. He started his career in 2006 at Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and holds the position of Assistant Professor (2006-2008), Associate Professor (2009-2010) and Professor (2011 to now) respectively. Currently his research interests include Biosyncretic systems, Micro/Nanorobotics, Intelligent control. He has published over 100 peer reviewed international journal papers and led more than 20 funded research projects as Principal Investigator. He was awarded the Early Career Award by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society in 2011, Outstanding Young Scientist of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2014, Rising Star Award of 3M-Nano Society in 2015, Talent Young Scholar Funds of NSFC in 2015, National Program for support of Top-Notch Young Professionals in 2015, Xiongyoulun Outstanding Youth Award in 2018, Distinguished Young Scholar Funds of NSFC in 2019, Xplore Prize in 2024. He is the winner of Best Student/Conference paper Award for ICRA, ROBIO, ICIRA, IEEE-NEMS, IEEE-CYBER, IEEE-NANOMED and IEEE-3M-NANO, and delivered Keynote/Plenary talks at ICRA, IROS, IEEE-NANO, IEEE-NANOMED, IEEE-NEMS, ICIUS, MARSS and so on. He has served as guest editor for IEEE TNANO, Sensors, TIMC, Journal of Autonomous Robotics, Journal of Healthcare Engineering，associate editor of Fundamental Research, Cyborg and Bionic Systems, Mechatronics, IET Cyber-Systems and Robotics, Control Theory and Applications. He has been elected as the vice president of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society for the term of 2018-2019, served as a member of long-range planning committee of RAS.
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