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EDUCATION

To give students more hands-on experience that beyond their traditional engineering curriculum, spread robotics knowledge that combines with deep mathematics and train students to have project management skills, the Robotics Institute has following educational initiatives.

ENTR 4000B Critical Steps to Successful Technology Startup

3 credits [2:3:0]

Thursdays 14:00-16:50

This course is intended for students who want to pursue hands-on technology entrepreneurship.  We will work with students to identify critical steps and  important milestones associated with each step towards building a successful technology startup.  These include team building, market identification and research, product ideation, technology and supply chain evaluation and finally rapid prototyping all within a lean product and business development cycle.

Company visits, field trips, trade shows and deep interactions with serial entrepreneurs will be arranged.  Students with good performance in the course are recommended to incubation program with seed funding to realize major goals set forth in the business plan and eventually to kick-off their own startups.

Talk Announcement

Piloting in 2018 is a collaborative series of joint online seminars and joint project opportunities with students form UC Berkeley.  Students will travel together in a field trip to SZ & DG to learn more about the manufacturing ecosystem and participate in hardUST 2018.

UG and PG students from all disciplines are welcome to apply through http://ri.ust.hk/education/.  20 students will be accepted.  Looking for students with passion to take on a journey of startup, hands-on experience with prototyping and commitment to success!

Highlights from 2017

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Education Programs

Education programs at both the undergraduate level and the postgraduate level will be developed, as summarized in the table:

Undergraduate Postgraduate
Robotics FYP:

Cross Departments & Joint Supervision

MPhil in Robotic Systems (2 yrs, incl. 1 yr internship)

MSc in Robotic Systems (1 yr taught, optional 1 yr internship)

MPhil Program in Technology Leadership and Entrepreneurship (TLE)

Cross-listing of

major Robotics courses

Minor program in Robotics

Collaboration with

*Center for Industry Engagement and Entrepreneurship

*Design Thinking and Entrepreneurship Cluster

Double degree in Robotics (later) Robotics PhD program (later)

 

Student Competitions

The Robotics Institute will organize and support UG and PG students to form teams to participate in selected major international Student Robotics Competitions, continuing the educational activity as in the past. A suitable competition is to be chosen from the following potential events.

Competitions Dates
RoboMasters

Amazon Picking Challenge at IEEE ICRA

Cybathlon ETH

DRAPA Flying Insect Drones

RoboSoft Grand Challenge

MBZIRC, Abu Dhabi

(July, each year)

(May-June, each year)

(October 2016)

(January 2016)

(April 2016)

(Fall 2016)

 

Outreach Programs

The Robotics Institute will organize and support outreach programs for local school students, including summer schools and participations in international robotics competitions. In particular, an opportunity is identified with the highly-acclaimed US FIRST Robotics Competition for HK school students.

 

Summer Schools Competitions
RI Summer School FIRST Robotics Competition:

South China Region (incl. HK & Macao) Competition

 

Recent Posts

  • Visit of HKSAR Financial Secretary, Mr. Paul Mo Po Chan on 29 Jan 2019
  • 31 January 2019 Seminar : Continuous Workspace and Optimum Design of Cable-Driven Parallel Robots
  • Visit of HKSAR Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs, Mr. Patrick Nip on 28 Dec 2018
  • Visit of Communist Party Secretary of Guangzhou, Mr. Zhang Shuofu on 14 Oct 2018
  • Congratulate Prof. Ming LIU, Tong QIN, Qing LIANG on receiving awards in 2018 IROS

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About Robotics Institute

The Robotics Institute serves as a multidisciplinary platform for integrating, facilitating and enabling University-wide programs in robotics-related research, development and education. Its establishment is a strategic initiative of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in its 25th anniversary campaign aimed at advancing the University’s academic strengths in selected cross disciplinary areas that are strategically important to HKUST’s future development.

Campus Location

Robotics Institute

2/F Cheng Yu Tung Building. HKUST.

Phone:+852 2358 7078

E-mail:info@ri.ust.hk

Website:http://ri.ust.hk

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