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Professor Bertram Emil SHI is leading a research project titled “” funded by the Research Grants Council of the University Grants Committee.The project aims to improve older individuals’ mental and physical care by developing human-centric frontier artificial intelligence and robotics technology, which will empower both the elderly themselves and their carers to manage health and address frailty.The project team consists of faculties from HKUST, CUHK and HKU and five research thrusts listed below: (1) Human-centric benchmarking; (2) Trustworthy generative AI; (3) Robotics and embodied AI; (4) Sustainability; and (5) Human robot interaction.

The appointee will be part of the project engineering team, which will mainly focus on integrating component technologies developed by research thrusts into the robotic prototypes to be tested with stakeholders (e.g., the elderly, care workers and family members).The project engineering team is ex...