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Establishment of Industrial Incubation Center of Medical Robotics

In recent years, the integration of cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence and medicine has accelerated. “Smart Medical Care” is gradually entering people’s lives. The gradual deepening of domestic industry-university-research cooperation and capital’s pursuit of industrial hot spots have accelerated the development of intelligent medical robotic technology, and products have been extended to more applications. Clinical medical robots, nursing robots, medical teaching robots and rehabilitation robots can assist medical staff to better complete their work in various medical procedures. The development and transformation of medical robots will overturn the traditional medical model and bring about a new industrial technological revolution. Nowadays, China’s elderly population over the age of 60 accounts for 16%; China is gradually entering an aging society. As people’s health requirements continue to increase, there is a huge market demand for minimally invasive, accurate, and high-quality smart medical services. In the “Made in China 2025 Plan” promulgated by the government, the medical robotics industry is included in the key development industry.

 

Opening ceremony of Industrial Incubation Center of Medical Robotics

 

In response to industry trends and social needs, SJTU-Minhang Industrial Incubation Center of Medical Robotics was officially launched on June 29, 2019 in the NeoBay Industrial Park, 930 Jianchuan Road, Minhang District. Pin Gan, Deputy Director of Shanghai Science and Technology Commission, Sixian Jiang, Party Secretary of SJTU, Academician Zhongqin Lin, President and Deputy Party Secretary of SJTU, Zhisong Zhu, Party Secretary of Minhang District, and Yaoming Ni, Deputy Party Secretary and Mayor of Minhang District, attended the launching ceremony. President Zhongqin Lin, District Mayor Yaoming Ni, and Deputy Director Pin Gan delivered speeches. Lifeng Xi, Member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and Vice President of SJTU, presided over the ceremony. Bin Wu, Deputy Mayor of Minhang District, Director Zhang Lujia, Academician Guang-Zhong Yang, Dean of the Institute of Medical Robotics (IMR), Yi Lin, Director of the Minhang Economic Committee, Li Li, Director of Minhang Science and Technology Committee, Jianyuan Yu, Party Secretary of Nanbinjiang Company, Bo Ji, Party Secretary of School of Biomedical Engineering of SJTU and Secretary-General of IMR’s Council, Academician Jia Fan, Dean of Zhongshan Hospital Affiliated to Fudan, Companies like KUKA, Haier, Medtronic, Yijiahe, KINOVA, and leaders, professors, doctors and students of Minhang District and SJTU all together witnessed this important moment.

 

SJTU-Minhang Industrial Incubation Center of Medical Robotics is located at 930 Jianchuan Road, Minhang District, Shanghai, covering an area of 7000 square meters. The center relies on IMR, closely integrating the Minhang District’s innovation-driven development strategy and strategically innovative industrial layout. It adopts a new model of “R&D in university, local incubation, and organized transformation”, adhering to “industry incubation and accumulation of dual innovation resources”, to create a complete ecosystem and industry chain for medical robotics, and to cultivate for the medical robot industry in Minhang District. Up to now, the center has 8 industrialization and start-up projects settled in the its space, and the products involve high-level medical robots such as in the field of surgery, rehabilitation, medical imaging, and tumor physical therapy equipment.

 

Academician Zhongqin Lin, President and Deputy Party Secretary of SJTU, pointed out in his speech that the completion and start-up of SJTU-Minhang Industrial Incubation Center of Medical Robotics marks another major progress in the new round of strategic cooperation between Minhang District and SJTU, which fully reflects that both sides attach great importance to the cooperation of industry, university and research. SJTU has a strong team of talents, strong scientific research strength, and the discipline and professionalism are highly compatible with the industrial development of Minhang District. Based on the existing work foundation, the two sides will show their respective strengths and support each other, which will continue to deepen the strategic cooperation between Minhang District and SJTU.

 

Zhongqin Lin, President and Deputy Party Secretary of SJTU, gave his speech

 

Yaoming Ni, Deputy Party Secretary and Mayor of the Minhang District, mentioned in his speech that for more than 30 years SJTU has integrated its own technology and talent advantages into the development of Minhang’s various undertakings and has become an indispensable technology innovation engine, an indispensable highland of scientific and technological talents, and an indispensable scientific and technological business card for Minhang. As one of the important measures for the construction of the transfer and transformation service system of scientific and technological achievements in colleges and universities, IMR@SJTU has realized effective exploration and experimentation in the aspects of mechanism model, platform construction, industrial cultivation and guidance. The completion of the Industrial Incubation Center of Medical Robotics will definitely further promote the research and development of the core technology and the transformation of key technologies.

 

Yaoming Ni, Deputy Party Secretary and mayor of the Minhang District, gave his speech

 

Pin Gan, Deputy Director of the Shanghai Science and Technology Commission, mentioned in his speech that SJTU is being at an international disciplinary highland, building a disciplinary peak, and building a double first-class height; Minhang District is developing from innovation-driven development, looking for traditional industry transformation and upgrading, and developing strategic emerging industries. Both two sides have invested heavily in human resources, space resources and financial resources to build the IMR. Today, the establishment of the SJTU-Minhang Industrial Incubation Center of Medical Robotics is believed to be an important foundation for gathering first-class innovation elements, a fertile soil for gestating and producing a number of major original achievements in the field of cutting-edge scientific and technological innovation, and promoting the reform of Shanghai’s scientific and technological system and the high-quality development of innovation and entrepreneurship.

 

Pin Gan, Deputy Director of the Shanghai Science and Technology Commission, gave his speech

 

IMR@SJTU is a multidisciplinary research platform established by SJTU in December 2017. Led by the School of Biomedical Engineering, IMR was jointly established by sciences, engineering, biology, and medicine including the university's mechanics, electricity, materials, mathematics, physics, chemistry, and medicine, affiliated hospitals, etc. Guang-Zhong Yang, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, serves as Dean of the institute. In order to better implement the major strategy of advancing the school’s talents, promote the construction of a large platform for scientific and technological innovation, improve IMR’s scientific research level, and promote foreign academic exchanges. IMR actively welcomes outstanding scholars, famous experts and outstanding talents to be its double-employed teachers and part-time staff. At the subsequent double-appointment ceremony of the affiliated hospitals of SJTU’s Schools of Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Materials, Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering, scholars from various disciplines including medicine, mechanics, electricity, materials, physics, and mathematics are awarded double-employment certificates by Academician Zhongqin Lin, President and Deputy Party Secretary of SJTU. The joining of scholars from the six major departments of SJTU and famous experts from 13 affiliated hospitals will strongly promote the scientific research and development of IMR.

 

Appointment ceremony of IMR part-time professors

 

In the past 20 years, surgical robots represented by "Da Vinci" have become popular all over the world. After several generations of changes, they have once become synonymous with medical robots. In the global medical robot industry, Europe and the United States have been in a leading position for many years, not only occupying the forefront of international research and development, but also firmly occupying the world’s largest market share. With the development of artificial intelligence and engineering technology in China, independent research and development products with unique creativity constantly emerge in domestic field of medical robotics.

 

After the double-employment appointment ceremony, the launch ceremony of the 2019 Innovation Design Competition of Medical Robotics was held immediately. The innovation design competition is co-sponsored by IMR and School of Design of SJTU. The Minhang government and the Chinese Society of Automation are supporting units. It is a global competition for the appearance and function design of medical robotics. Through the competition, a group of achievements and projects representing the forefront of medical robot research and development will be gathered and displayed, and works with innovative ideas in the design will be discovered. Academician Guang-Zhong Yang, Dean of IMR, briefly introduced the design competition at the launching ceremony. He said that the design competition registration had been launched in May 2019. So far, 53 teams from all over the world have registered for the competition. This competition will build a learning and communication platform for medical robot R&D teams at home and abroad, and provide opportunities for demonstration and common improvement. The Industrial Incubation Center of Medical Robotics will provide opportunities for further cultivation and industrial transformation for the selected outstanding projects.

 

Innovation Design Competition of Medical Robotics launched

 

Under the guidance of the strategic plan of “Healthy China” and “Co-construction and Co-Sharing, to Have National Health”, SJTU-Minhang Industrial Incubation Center of Medical Robotics will continue to overcome key technical problems and obtain projects with independent intellectual property rights, good market prospects, and industry-leading technology. The center will vigorously implement the industrialization of scientific and technological achievements of “industry-university-research-medicine” integration, guide the scientific research achievements of SJTU to serve the local economic development, and cooperate to promote the life and health industry of Minhang District to a higher level and wider development. SJTU and Minhang District will take the establishment of the Industrial Incubation Center of Medical Robotics as an opportunity to further expand cooperation fields, deepen cooperation content, innovate cooperation forms, enhance cooperation levels, to realize resource sharing, complementary advantages, collaborative innovation, and a win-win development, and make the center become a new model of district-university cooperation, to help SJTU’s double first-class construction, and to promote SJTU to become a powerful engine for Minhang District’s construction of an important bearing area for the Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Center and a national demonstration base for innovation.

 

Settled project visit

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