Biomechatronics and Intelligent Robotics Lab
Hao Su is Irwin Zahn Endowed assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the City University of New York, City
College and the Director of the Lab of Biomechatronics and
Intelligent Robotics (BIRO). He was a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard
University and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. Prior to this role, he was a Research
Scientist at Philips Research North America where he designed robots for
lung and cardiac surgery. He obtained the Ph.D. degree in Surgical Robotics from
the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Dr.
Su received NSF CAREER Award,Toyota Mobility Challenge Discover Award, the Best Medical Robotics Paper
Runner-up Award in the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and
Automation (ICRA) and Philips Innovation Transfer Award. He received the Advanced
Simulation & Training Award from the Link Foundation and Dr. Richard
Schlesinger Award from the American Society for Quality. He holds patents on
surgical robotics and socially assistive robots. He currently serves as an associate editor of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL), IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), and IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).
We gratefully acknowledge the supports from:
March 2021
Two of our co-authored paper with Professor Axel Krieger, Russel H. Taylor and Robin R. Murphy on discussing the role that robots take in tackling with the COVID19 pandemic were published on Nature Machine Intelligence and Science Robotics. Two paper are titled Physical human–robot interaction for clinical care in infectious environments and Progress in robotics for combating infectious diseases.
August 2020
Dr. Su will lead an 8 faculty team from CUNY, NYU and Rutgers with $2.78M National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant to develop Perceptive and Adaptive Soft (PECASO) Robots to impact the future of work at the Human-Technology Frontier.
July 2020
Our paper was named finalist in the Best Student Paper Award and the third prize of Student Design Competition in Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM 2020 ).
May 2020
Our lab won the second prize of Three in Five Competition in ASME Design of Medical Devices Conference.
Apr 2020
Prof. Su received a National Science Foundation CAREER award for $552K, the agency's highest honor for faculty members at the start of their research and teaching careers.
Mar 2020
Our lab won the second prize of WearRAcon Innovation Challenge.
Feb 2020
Our work in collaboration with Prof. Jie Yin at NCSU is accepted for publication in Science Advances. Title is "Leveraging Elastic instabilities for Amplified Performance (LEAP): spine-inspired high-speed and high-force soft robots".