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[8/2026] [News] Zhenhua was invited to serve as a Guest Editor for the MDPI Biomimetics Special Issue, “Advances in Bio-Inspired Intelligent Robot”.

[8/2026] [News] The Special Issue “Advances in Bio-Inspired Intelligent Robot”, guest-edited by Zhenhua and Dr Xiao Bo, is now online in Biomimetics and open for submissions. [Special Issue]

[08/2026] [Member] Welcome Mr.Xuxing Zhang join to our group as a PhD student.

[7/2026] [News] Zhenhua was invited to serve as a Guest Editor for the Biomimetics Special Issue, “Advances in Bio-Inspired Intelligent Robot”.

[7/2026] [News] Zhenhua participated in the UK–India Workshop on Applied AI and Digital Skills for Women in STEM.

[7/2026] [News] I welcomed Dr Xiao Li, Dr Ahmad Fazlizan Abdullah, and Ubaidah Syafiq from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) to visit our Multimodal Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at the University of Aberdeen.

[6/2026] [Award] Congratulations to Quanshi Zhan, an undergraduate thesis student supervised by Zhenhua, on being recognised as an Outstanding Graduate of the University of Aberdeen.

[6/2026] [News] A delegation group from South China Normal University visited my Multimodal Intelligent Robotics Lab at the University of Aberdeen, where we discussed ongoing and future collaboration in intelligent robotics and signed an MoU to establish a joint collaboration.

[6/2026] [Appointment] Zhenhua was appointed as the director of the SCNU–ABDN Joint Laboratory for Multimodal Intelligent Robotics.

[6/2026] [News] Zhenhua represented the University of Aberdeen at the graduation ceremony of the Aberdeen Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at South China Normal University.

[5/2026] [Paper] Congrats, Boyang Zhao, a second-year undergraduate student in my group! First-author paper was accepted by the top journal Computers and Electronics in Agriculture!

[5/2026] [Paper] 1 paper accepted by the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. Thanks my collaborators!

[5/2026] [Award] Congrats, Cong for winning a Travel Grant to attend the SCNU YSE programme.

[4/2026] [News] Zhenhua was invited to visit Runjian Co., Ltd. to learn more about industry needs and potential university–industry collaboration.

[3/2026] [Member] Welcome Mr.Cong Liu to join our group as a PhD student.

[2/2026] [Grant] Zhenhua was awarded a Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) research grant as Principal Investigator.

[1/2026] [Paper] Congrats, Xiao! First-author paper was accepted by the top journal IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters!

[1/2026] [Paper] Congrats, Xiao! First-author paper was accepted by the top journal IEEE Sensors Journal!

[12/2025] [News] Zhenhua was invited to visit Ocean University of China for academic exchange.

[12/2025] [Paper] 1 paper accepted by the Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. Thanks, my collaborators!

[11/2025] [News] Zhenhua was invited to visit Beijing Institute of Technology and delivered an invited talk.

[11/2025] [Member] Welcome Mr.Zheng Ma to join to our group as a PhD student.

[11/2025] [Event] Zhenhua was invited to participate in the Shaanxi Silk Road Youth Forum.

[11/2025] [Grant] Zhenhua received the Scotland Interface Innovation Funding as Principal Investigator to support research and development in wearable sensing and intelligent healthcare technologies.

[10/2025] [Paper] Congrats, Xiao! First-author paper was accepted by the top journal IEEE Sensors Journal!

[10/2025] [Paper] 1 paper accepted by the Signal, Image and Video Processing. Thanks, my collaborators!

[8/2025] [Paper] 1 paper accepted by the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. Thanks, my collaborators!

[8/2025] [Talk] Zhenhua was invited to give a talk at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST)

[07/2025] [Appointment] Zhenhua was appointed as the PGR Lead in the School of Natural and Computing Sciences, supporting the development of the new PhD programme with SCNU and wider PhD recruitment from China, including through CSC Scholarships and international partnerships.

[6/2025] [Paper] 1 paper accepted by the European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology. Thanks, my collaborators!

[5/2025] [Paper] 1 paper accepted by the CVPR 2025. Thanks, my collaborators!

[1/2025] [Book] Handbook on Soft Robotics was published, with Zhenhua as one of the contributing authors.

[12/2024] [Appointment] Zhenhua was awarded an Honorary Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London, in recognition of my contributions to the Department.

[11/2024] [News] Zhenhua was invited to participate in the Northwestern Polytechnical University Young Scholars Forum and delivered an invited talk.

[11/2024] [Appointment] Zhenhua started my new position as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Aberdeen.