Lab News

News-2025:

  1. Dec. 5, Xin Mu's paper, "Morphological Manipulation of Particle Cluster Using Ultrasonic Phased Array System and Microscopic Vision" was accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.
  2. Nov. 26, 2023届研究生姜昱婕被评为三好学生(唯一25级博士生)、2024届研究生慕欣被评为优秀学生Congrats!
  3. Nov. 23, Xiang Fu's paper, "High Precision Control for Off-axis In-situ Rotation of Nanorobot inside SEM" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics (T-MECH).
  4. Oct. 27, Xiang Fu's paper, "Template maching-based nanoscale visual tracking for out of plane rotations inside SEM" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (TASE).
  5. Sep. 16, 土耳其科齐大学校长、德国马普所教授 Metin Sitti来访AMNR实验室,并与刘松教授进行学术交流。
  6. Aug. 5th, 实验室获得国家自然科学基金委“优秀青年科学基金”支持,刘松教授评选为“优青”。
  7. Jul. 18, 2023届硕士研究生姜昱婕凭借“HIFU系统”获得上海科技大学第七届创新创业大会比赛一等奖。
  8. Jun. 16, AMNR Lab has two papers accepted for publication in the proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2025).
  9. Jun. 13, 大湾区大学工学院院长王煜教授来访AMNR实验室,并与刘松教授进行座谈。
  10. Jun. 4, Jiaqi's paper, "MEMS Amplitude-Gradient Acoustic Transducer (AGAT) for Controllable Particle Transportation", was accepted for Poster presentation at the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS 2025), to be held in Utrecht, Netherlands, Spt. 15-18, 2025.
  11. Jun. 3, Prof. Song Liu gave an invited talk in Acoustic Robotics in Chinese University of Hong Kong.
  12. Apr. 24, An Siyuan and Liu Qing passed the Master degree thesis defense, officially graduated from the AMNR Lab as master students. Congrats!
  13. Apr. 22, AMNR Lab's paper "In-plane Manipulation of Soft Micro-Fiber with Ultrasonic Transducer Array and Microscope" was selected by the ICRA 2025 award committee as Best Conference Paper Award finalist, and Best Paper Award in Automation finalist.
  14. Apr. 16, AMNR Lab 2022届硕士研究生刘晴获评“上海市优秀毕业生”
  15. Mar. 28, AMNR Lab's latest research was online published by Nature Physics. In this work, we solved the challenge of manipulating liquid droplets on superhydrophilic surfaces. Click To Read More.
  16. Feb. 22, Qingyi's paper, "Reconfigurable Phase-Only Acoustic Holography with Surrogate Model Based on Soft-GAN" was accepted by Applied Acoustics.
  17. Feb. 19, Qing Liu's paper, "Low-Cost Acoustic Field Reconstruction with Physics-Incorporated Deep Learning for Binary Amplitude-Only Hologram" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. This paper proposed the concept of BAOH.
  18. Jan. 28, Chengxi's paper, "Accurate and Real-Time Acoustic Holography Using Super-Resolution and Physics Combined Deep Learning" was accepted by Applied Physics Letters.
  19. Jan. 28, Congrats to Jieyun and Prof. Su. AMNR Lab has two papers accepted by the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2025). From "In-plane Manipulation of Soft Micro-Fiber with Ultrasonic Transducer Array and Microscope", AMNR Lab is opening up a new research direction towards acoustic fibrebot.
  20. Jan. 18, Qingyi's paper "Physics-based Generative Adversarial Network for Real-time Acoustic Holography" was accepted by Ultrasonics. Ultrasonics is a very reputational and very traditional journal in the field of acoustics and ultrasonics.
  21. Jan. 9, Yujie's paper "Synchronous Rotation-based Knot Tying on Mini-Incisions Using Dual-Arm Nanorobot" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (T-BME). This is the third paper published in IEEE T-BME from the AMNR Lab.
  22. Jan. 6, Chengxi has been awarded funding from the "China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) Young Talents Support Project for Doctoral Students." The funding period is two years. 佳讯!微纳机器人实验室在读博士研究生钟承希同学获得“中国科协青年人才托举工程博士生专项”资助,资助期两年。

News-2024:

  1. Nov. 27, Mingyue and Siyuan's paper "Selective, Robust and Precision Manipulation of Particles in Complex Enviorenments with Ultrasonic Phased Transducer Array and Microscope" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Robotics.
  2. Oct. 9, Qingyi Lu won the National Scholarship for Outstanding Master Students for her excellent research works in acoustic holography.
  3. Sep. 20, Qingyi's paper "Deep Learning-Based Super-Resolution Acoustic Holography for Phased Transducer Array" was accepted by Journal of Applied Physics. This paper formalized and physically validated the concept of super-resolution acoustic holography.
  4. Aug. 23, Prof. Su's paper "A Review of Deep-learning-based Super-Resolution: from Methods to Applications" was accepted by Pattern Recognition, one of the top journals in the field of artificial intelligence.
  5. Aug. 17, Our paper "Nanorobot-based Direct Implantation of Flexible Neural Electrode for BCI" was selected as a Featured article and Front cover of the October issue of IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (2024).
  6. Jul. 16, Mingyue's paper "3D Noncontact Micro-Particle Manipulation with Acoustic Robot End-Effector under Microscope" was accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.
  7. Jun. 30, AMNR Lab has three papers accepted for publication in the proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2024). The three accepted papers are about particle cluster manipulation, binary amplitude acoustic holography, and 3D reconstruction inside SEM.
  8. Jun. 12, Jiaqi's paper "Obstacle-crossing Self Focused Acoustic Transducer based on Bessel Beams" was accepted by IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Joint Symposium (UFFC-JS 2024) in the topic of IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS 2024).
  9. May 26, Mingyue's paper "Vision-based Closed-loop Control with Spatiotemporal Multiplexing Strategy for Noncontact Trapping of Multiple Micro-particles" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering.
  10. May 23, Congrats to Mingyue Wang, Xiang Fu, and Zhenhuan Sun for becoming PhD students in AMNR Lab. The lab now has 7 PhD students.
  11. May 20, Dr. Teng Li and Yujie's paper "Nanorobot-based Direct Implantation of Flexible Neural Electrode for BCI" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. AMNR Lab is now turning to apply advanced micro-nanorobotics towards life science. Bio-electrical interface is one of the main research topics in the coming years. We have laid solid technical foundations in this regard.
  12. Feb. 20, Prof. Su's paper "Attention-based Multi-scale Feature Fusion for Efficient Surface Defect Detection" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement.
  13. Jan. 29, Yujie's paper "Automated Surgical Knot Tying on Mini-Incision with Micro-Suture based on Dual-Arm Nanorobot under Stereo Microscope" was accepted by International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024).
  14. Jan. 15, Fu Xiang and Sun Zhenhuan were awarded Merit Graduate Student and Outstanding Graduate Student of ShanghaiTech, respectively.

News-2023:

  1. Dec. 16, Chengxi and Qingyi's paper "Real-time Acoustic Holography with Physics-Reinforced Contrastive Learning for Acoustic Field Reconstruction" was accepted by Journal of Applied Physics.
  2. Dec. 3, Yuyu Jia's paper "Selective Acoustic Trapping, Translating, Rotating and Orienting of Organism from Heterogeneous Mixture" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.
  3. Oct. 17, Chengxi Zhong won the National Scholarship for Outstanding Doctoral Students for her excellent research works in acoustic holography.
  4. Aug. 29, Fu Xiang's paper "Visual Tracking with Motion Distortion Removal for Nanomanipulation inside SEM" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement.
  5. Aug. 25, Research in AMNR Lab received funding support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China from 2024 to 2026.
  6. Jul. 4, Chengxi's paper "Real-time Acoustic Holography with Physics-based Deep Learning for Robotic Manipulation" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering.
  7. Jun. 22, Qingqi and Chengxi's paper "Ultrafast Acoustic Holography with Physics-Reinforced Self-Supervised Learning for Precise Robotic Manipulation" was accepted for publication in the proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2023).
  8. Jun. 5, Yuting Yang's paper "Zooming-Free Hand-Eye Self-Calibration for Nanorobotic Manipulation inside SEM" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology.
  9. May 24, AMNR Lab had four papers accepted by International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS 2023)! IUS is the top conference in the field of ultrasonics, to be held in Montreal, Canada, this year.
  10. May 19, Dr. Teng Li's paper "Visual Servo Control for Workspace Navigation of Nanorobot End-effector inside SEM" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering.
  11. May 12, Qingyi Lu was awarded Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis in her bachelor degree defense. Qingyi is joining AMNR Lab in coming September as graduate student.
  12. The PI was awarded as Outstanding Faculty by ShanghaiTech and SIST in 2022.
  13. AMNR Lab has two papers accepted by ICRA 2023 @ London Excel!
  14. Our graduate student Chengxi Zhong becomes a reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging!