Moments

Dinner during the visit of Prof. Moju Zhao and Kazuki Numazato (UTokyo) to UofT, with Prof. Hani Naguib (MSE, UofT), Prof. Ben Hatton (MSE, UofT), Prof. Isabelle Rao (MIE, UofT), and Pakpong

Pakpong with Prof. Moju Zhao and Kazuki Numazato (UTokyo) at King's College Circle, UofT

Visit from Prof. Moju Zhao and Kazuki Numazato (UTokyo) to the CLIMB Lab, with Sarah Xu, Jeeraphat (Owen) Kledkruemas, Feiyang Wu, Song Li, Tengfei Lou, Arthur Ngo Foon Chan, Yann Zhang, and Pakpong

Prof. Moju Zhao (UTokyo) giving the Fall 2026 MIE Distinguished Seminar at UofT

Fangzheng Wang and Ryan Zazo with Ryan's poster, "Flying, Hopping and Rolling: Developing a Multi-Modal Robot for Efficient All Terrain Traversal," at IROS 2026, Pittsburgh

Extended Wood Lab family at IROS 2026, Pittsburgh: Prof. Zeynep Temel (CMU), Prof. Nick Gravish (UC San Diego), Prof. Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio (Princeton), Prof. Robert Baines (Oxford), Prof. Sawyer Fulller (UW), Prof. Yong-Lae Park (SNU), Prof. Siyi Xu (UIUC), Prof. Kevin Chen (MIT), Prof. Sangbae Kim (MIT, Meta), Prof. Mike Tolley (UC San Diego), Prof. Farrell Helbling (Cornell), and Pakpong

HopTo dinner after a day of exhibition at IROS 2026, Pittsburgh, with Prof. Sawyer Fulller (UW), Prof. Kevin Chen (MIT), Prof. Siyi Xu (UIUC), John Wang (UW), Fangzheng Wang, the HopTo team, and Pakpong

HopTo booth in the exhibition hall at IROS 2026, Pittsburgh, with Fangzheng Wang, Prof. Kevin Chen (MIT), Prof. Siyi Xu (UIUC), the HopTo team, and Pakpong

Zeng Yang with a poster at Undergraduate Engineering Research Day (UnERD), Myhal

Brandon Chau with a poster at Undergraduate Engineering Research Day (UnERD), Myhal, with PhD student mentor Yann Zhang

A spontaneous team photo during a visit to the HopTo office

Song Li demoing the Hopcopter at the Toronto Robotics Conference

Toronto Robotics Conference at UTM

Yann Zhang presenting at the Toronto Robotics Conference (UTM)

Toronto Robotics Conference at UTM

Dr Ting Wang's commencement at CityUHK, with the team: Ruobing Wang, Xinyu Zhu, Jiaxuan Wang, Weilun Duan, Jeeraphat (Owen) Kledkruemas, Zhiyuan Zhang, and Jiahao Ma

Dr Ting Wang's commencement at CityUHK, in front of our Hong Kong lab

Summer 2026 undergrads outside U of T

Summer 2026 undergrads Zeng Yang (UofT), Kwan Lo (HKU), Yunpu Liu (PolyU HK), Brandon Chau (UofT), and Jaden Zhang (UofT), with Pakpong

Visit from Prof. Chung Tin (CityUHK)

Prof. Raphael Zufferey (MIT), Prof. Kevin Chen (MIT), Prof. Yu Sun (UofT), and Pakpong at ICRA 2026 in Vienna

Song Li and Fangzheng Wang at their poster at ICRA 2026 in Vienna

Song Li and Prof. Eric Diller (UofT) at ICRA 2026 in Vienna

At the JST workshop hosted by Prof. Moju Zhao (UTokyo) in Vienna after ICRA 2026, with Song Li, Prof. Kevin Chen (MIT), and Prof. Marco Tognon (Inria)

Prof. Dario Floreano (EPFL) visiting the HopTo booth at ICRA 2026 in Vienna, with Song Li and the HopTo team

With HopTo team at ICRA 2026 in Vienna: Song Li, Pakpong, Fangzheng Wang, and Dario Serrano (UofT)

Prof. Moju Zhao (UTokyo), Prof. Dario Floreano (EPFL), Prof. Marco Tognon (Inria), Prof. Sihao Sun (TU Delft), and Pakpong at ICRA 2026 in Vienna

HopTo highlights at ICRA 2026, Vienna

Robosoft 2026 dinner in Kanazawa with Prof. Moju Zhao (UTokyo), Prof. Kevin Chen (MIT), and Prof. Shaohui Foong (SUTD)

The Hopcopter featured on CNN's Tech for Good, broadcast internationally: "This is no toy: meet the bouncing robot inspired by insects"

HopTo office in Shenzhen with Fangzheng Wang, Ruihan Jia, and Ting Wang

The Hopcopter and our Samara-inspired revolving-wing drone are now part of the permanent exhibition at the Hong Kong Science Museum (photo courtesy of the Hong Kong Science Museum)

At our Hong Kong lab with the team: Songnan Bai, Jiahao Ma, Runze Ding, Ting Wang, Weilun Duan, Bingxuan Pu, Jiaxuan Wang, Zhiyuan Zhang, Ruihan Jia, and Xinyu Zhu

RIS Lab hits the court: pickup basketball in Hong Kong with Xinyu Zhu, Zhiyuan Zhang, Ruihan Jia, Jihao Xu, Ruobing Wang, Runze Ding, Bingxuan Pu, Jiahao Ma, and Weilun Duan

Prof. Dario Floreano (EPFL) with Ting Wang, during his second visit to our Hong Kong lab

Prof. Dario Floreano (EPFL) with Runze Ding, during his second visit to our Hong Kong lab

Prof. Dario Floreano's (EPFL) second visit to our Hong Kong lab, with Jihao Xu, Jeeraphat (Owen) Kledkruemas, Ting Wang, Ruihan Jia, Jiaxuan Wang, Runze Ding, Jiahao Ma, and Songnan Bai

With Prof. Moju Zhao at the DRAGON Lab, UTokyo

Giving a talk at the DRAGON Lab, UTokyo, hosted by Prof. Moju Zhao

Pakpong and Rachel Zoll (Harvard Microrobotics Lab) at IROS 2025, Hangzhou

Prof. Kevin Chen (MIT) with the Hopcopter at IROS 2025, Hangzhou

Runze Ding, Ruihan Jia, and Pakpong at IROS 2025, Hangzhou

HopTo office opening in Shenzhen with Fangzheng Wang, Ruihan Jia, Runze Ding, and Pakpong

HopTo at IROS 2025, Hangzhou

Visit from Prof. Van Anh Ho (JAIST) to U of T

Dr. Ting Wang's thesis defense at CityUHK

At our Hong Kong lab with Ting Wang and Kaixu Dong

Ruihan Jia's MPhil thesis defense at CityUHK, with Prof. Raymond Lam (CityUHK) and Prof. David Navarro-Alarcon (PolyUHK)

Prof. Yong-Lae Park (SNU), Prof. Patrick Hyun (Purdue), Prof. Siyi Xu (UIUC), and Pakpong at MARSS 2025, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Giving a talk at SUSTech (Shenzhen)

Giving a talk at SUSTech (Shenzhen)

Shenzhen, part of a SUSTech visit: Xinyu Zhu, Runze Ding, Ruihan Jia, Fangzheng Wang, Ting Wang, Prof. Hongqiang Wang (SUSTech), Pakpong, Song Li, and Zhiyuan Zhang

Filming with Kristie Lu Stout (CNN) for Tech for Good on the CityUHK campus

CityUHK Outstanding Research Award for Junior Faculty, 2024

CityUHK Outstanding Research Award for Junior Faculty, 2024 (full video)

Visit to Prof. Hongqiang Wang's lab (AAR Lab) at SUSTech, with Prof. Xin Ma and Prof. Huijuan Feng

HopTo at ICRA 2025, Atlanta

RIS Lab outing in Shatin, Hong Kong

Weilun Duan working with a robotic dog

Songnan Bai demoing the hopping robot during Pakpong's talk at the Conference on Robots for Science (organized by Science Robotics), CUHK

At MIT Node Hong Kong with Prof. Kevin Chen (MIT), Prof. Wei Shyy (HKUST), and Prof. Lin Fu (HKUST)

Visit to HKUST with Prof. Kevin Chen (MIT) and Prof. Zhengbao Yang (HKUST)

Visit to CUHK with Prof. Kevin Chen (MIT) and Prof. Qiguang He (CUHK)

HIT Shenzhen visit with the team: Song Li, Xinyu Zhu, Fangzheng Wang, Zhiyuan Zhang, Ting Wang, Ruihan Jia, Jiahao Ma, Ruobing Wang, Weilun Duan, Yu Shi, Jiaxuan Wang, and Kaixu Dong

Giving a talk at HIT Shenzhen, hosted by Prof. Xuan Wang

Giving a talk at HIT Shenzhen, hosted by Prof. Xuan Wang

Giving a talk at HIT Shenzhen, hosted by Prof. Xuan Wang

Visit to DJI Headquarters (DJI Sky City)

DJI visit with the team: Zhiyuan Zhang, Kaixu Dong, Ting Wang, Song Li, Ruobing Wang, Fangzheng Wang, Jiahao Ma, Yu Shi, and Pakpong

At Tsinghua with Ruihan Jia, Jiahao Ma, and Kaixu Dong

At Tsinghua with Kaixu Dong, Ting Wang, Zhiyuan Zhang, and Jiahao Ma

At a soft robotics conference in Tsinghua University (Beijing) with Prof. Li Wen (Beihang), Ting Wang, Ruihan Jia, Fangzheng Wang, and Jiahao Ma

At a soft robotics conference in Tsinghua University (Beijing) with Prof. Shuguang Li (Tsinghua) and Prof. Hongqiang Wang (SUSTech)

Giving a talk at Tsinghua University

Giving a talk at Tsinghua University

Giving a talk at Tsinghua University

Sightseeing at Gulou, Beijing, during the Tsinghua trip: Zhiyuan Zhang, Ruihan Jia, Jiahao Ma, Pakpong, Ting Wang, Fangzheng Wang, and Kaixu Dong

Prof. Zhigang Wu (HUST) and his team visiting CityUHK, with Songnan Bai, Ruihan Jia, Runze Ding, Song Li, Size Yu, Bingxuan Pu, Kaixu Dong, Jeeraphat (Owen) Kledkruemas, and Xinyu Zhu

Dr Runze Ding's commencement at CityUHK

Photoshoot for CityUHK News, featuring the Hopcopter, with Runze Ding, Songnan Bai, and Pakpong

Visit from Prof. Mark Mueller and Prof. Hannah Stuart (UC Berkeley) at CityUHK, with Yu Shi, Kaixu Dong, Fangzheng Wang, Song Li, Bingxuan Pu, Pakpong, Songnan Bai, Runze Ding, Ruobing Wang, Ruihan Jia, Size Yu, and Xinyu Zhu

Visit from Prof. Mark Mueller and Prof. Hannah Stuart (UC Berkeley) at CityUHK

Visit (lecture) from Prof. Kevin Chen (MIT) at CityUHK

Visit from Prof. Metin Sitti (Koç University) to CityUHK, with Ruobing Wang, Xinyu Zhu, Kaixu Dong, Runze Ding, Pakpong, Ruihan Jia, Songnan Bai, and Song Li

Giving a seminar at SUSTech

At a soft robotics conference in Shenzhen with Prof. Shuguang Li (Tsinghua), Prof. Hongqiang Wang (SUSTech), and Prof. Huichan Zhao (Tsinghua)

At a soft robotics conference in Shenzhen with Prof. Shuguang Li (Tsinghua) and Ting Wang

At a soft robotics conference in Shenzhen with Prof. Hongqiang Wang (SUSTech), Prof. Huichan Zhao (Tsinghua), Prof. Shuguang Li (Tsinghua), Prof. Li Wen (Beihang), and Pakpong

With Prof. Hongqiang Wang (SUSTech)

Group lunch at CityU Lodge Bistro with Jihao Xu, Fangzheng Wang, Runze Ding, Songnan Bai, Ting Wang, Kaixu Dong, Song Li, Bingxuan Pu, Ruihan Jia, Size Yu, and Xinyu Zhu

At Toscanini's (Cambridge, MA) with Songnan Bai, Prof. Kevin Chen (MIT), and Yi-Hsuan "Nemo" Hsiao

Xiangyu Chu (CUHK), Prof. Kevin Chen (MIT), Prof. Amir Patel (University of Cape Town), Prof. Samuel Au (CUHK), Pakpong, and Prof. Ryuki Sato (University of Electro-Communications) at the Agile Movement workshop, ICRA 2023, London

Ben Shih (UC San Diego) visiting CityUHK

Songnan Bai, Runze Ding, and Kaixu Dong at SUSTech (Shenzhen)

Extended Wood Lab family at ICRA, Philadelphia: Prof. Kris Dorsey (Northeastern), Prof. Dan Aukes (ASU), Prof. Farrell Helbling (Cornell), Prof. Nick Gravish (UC San Diego), Yigit Mengüç (Oregon State), Prof. Kevin Chen (MIT), Prof. Siyi Xu (UIUC), Prof. Kaushik Jayaram (CU Boulder), Prof. Rob Wood (Harvard), and Pakpong

Group lunch with Huaiyuan Jia, Xinyu Cai, Shixin Tan, Runze Ding, Bingguo Mu, Shangkun Zhong, Songnan Bai, and Pakpong

Wood Lab alumni at RoboSoft 2019, COEX Seoul: Mike Tolley (UC San Diego), Pakpong, Onur Özcan (Bilkent University), Ardian Jusufi (Max Planck Institute), Kyu-Jin Cho (General Chair, SNU), Yong-Lae Park (SNU), Rebecca Kramer (Yale), and Je-sung Koh