How dodgy browser plugins, web scripts can silently rewrite that URL you were about to hit

Analysis Clickjacking, which came to the attention of security types more than a decade ago, continues to thrive, despite defenses deployed since then by browser makers.

Date: 
Tuesday, September 3, 2019
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The Register
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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/08/15/hijacked_clicks_research/

CUHK Robotics Team Triumphed at ABU Asia-Pacific Robot Contest in Mongolia

The Engineering student robotics team Phantom Dancer from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) was crowned Champion in the The Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) Asia-Pacific Robot Contest (Robocon), which was held last Sunday (August 25).

Date: 
Tuesday, September 3, 2019
Media: 
Asia Today
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http://tiny.cc/mmj4bz

亞太機械人賽 中大生奪冠

近年香港政府銳意推行STEM（科學、技術、工程及數學）教育，中文大學工程學院機械人團隊周日（25日）出戰「亞太廣播聯盟機械人大賽」，便以全勝姿態擊敗多國強隊，贏得金牌獎座，是該比賽自2002年創辦至今，首支贏得冠軍的香港隊伍。

Date: 
Tuesday, September 3, 2019
Media: 
Hong Kong Economic Times
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https://paper.hket.com/article/2440322/

中大揚威亞太機械人大賽

中文大學工程學院機械人團隊早前出戰「亞太廣播聯盟機械人大賽」，參賽機械人要在最短時間完成一系列任務，例如帶着令牌跨越山丘、繩索等不同障礙，切合比賽主題「飛奔大漠中」。中大機械人團隊最終以較佳穩定性擊敗多國強隊，贏得金牌獎座，亦是該比賽自○二年創辦至今，首支贏得冠軍的香港隊伍。

Date: 
Tuesday, September 3, 2019
Media: 
Sing Tao
Media LInk: 
https://std.stheadline.com/daily/article/detail/2055332/

CUHK Robotics Team Triumphed at ABU Asia-Pacific Robot Contest in Mongolia

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2019-08-29
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The First Victory for Hong Kong

The Engineering student robotics team Phantom Dancer was crowned Champion in the The Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) Asia-Pacific Robot Contest (Robocon), which was held last Sunday (August 25). Phantom Dancer is the first Hong Kong team to win this international trophy for robotics since the game began in 2002, signifying CUHK’s education quality in robotic design and innovation. 

This year, 17 regional winning teams from universities, colleges and academies of 16 countries and territories across the Asia-Pacific region competed in the finale held in Mongolia. CUHK’s Phantom Dancer advanced to the finale and represented Hong Kong for a second time, after winning the championship in the regional contest which took place in June this year. 

The team leader, Billy Yip Chun Wa, is an alumnus of the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, CUHK. With his experience, he twice led the CUHK team to compete in ABU Robocon, and was amazed by the team’s performance this year. “Everyone in the team was a big fan of robotic design and programming. We spent nearly a year trying to achieve the optimum conditions for our robots, and the preparation one month ahead of the finale was even more intensive. Despite all our efforts to boost the robots’ speed and performance, there were times when countless flaws were revealed and there were divided views among members. We worked day and night with each other to find out the best solution to our clear goal. The understanding and friendship are what we treasured most in the process. We also learnt a lot by interacting with the best teams coming from all around the world during the competition,” said Billy.

Professor Martin D. F. Wong, Dean of Engineering, CUHK, remarked, “The Faculty of Engineering is a breeding ground of engineering professionals in Hong Kong, playing an important role in both engineering education and technological development. I take pride in our student team’s achievement in both the regional and international Robocon. It is not only about their hard work paying off, but also that our world-class education gets recognised. I sincerely hope that our students will continue to keep going, strive for the best, and become a legend.” 

Key to Winning: Enhanced Stability 

“Great Urtuu”, inspired by a traditional Mongolian messenger system, was the theme of this year’s competition. The competition challenged the participants to build one manual robot and one automatic robot that had to execute a range of tasks include crossing different geographical conditions and traversing ropes while carrying the Gerege, a symbolic tablet, as well as throwing Shagai, a bone dice, to demonstrate their technical and physical capabilities. The automatic robot is required to be four-legged, adding complexity to the design in pursuing high stability and speed. 
After qualifying for the finale, members of the Phantom Dancer moved forward on the robots’ performance upgrades. They exchanged ideas about the design and coding with counterparts at other local universities and conducted numerous trials to minimise failure rates. The improved stability eventually gave Phantom Dancer’s robots advantages over traditional strong opponents like the China, Vietnam and Japan teams.
 


CUHK Robotic team made history by becoming the first team from Hong Kong winning the Asia-Pacific Robot Contest.

CUHK Robotic team contest at Mongolia.

The competition is a relay race of automatic (left) and manual (right) robots. It challenges not only the stability and speed of the robots, but also powers of discretion of the members.

 

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CUHK Research Team Develops a Novel Method for Preparing Single Chain Nano Material

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2019-08-15
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Professor Liming BIAN, Associate Professor of the Department of Biomedical Engineering and his research team have recently developed a novel method for preparing single chain nano material which significantly improves the efficiency by a factor of 20 over that of conventional methods. The research team further investigated the impact of the dynamic molecular conformational change in such material on cellular interactions in different biomedical applications at varying scales. This paves the way for the large scale production and translation of single chain nano materials in daily life. The study has been published in the prestigious scientific journal Nature Communications.

The ability to precisely control the structure and the function of synthetic materials has profound significance for many researchers because molecule level designs are critical to regulating the properties and functions of biomaterials at various scales. In conventional methods, single chain polymeric nano particles or nano gels are generally produced under highly dilute conditions or with low monomer conversion rates, which severely hinder the widespread applications of single chain nano objects. 

The novel method showcases the wide application of such materials in biomedical engineering. One example is in gene or drug delivery and regulation of stem cells behaviour in nano scale. At the same time, this advanced nano material can realise the effective protection of stem cells and regulation of cell behaviour, which is of great significance in stem cell therapy, stem cell tissue engineering application and scientific research. Professor Bian said, “This research provides a strong basis for designing and applying the new materials in daily activities. The findings enable the large scale production and translation of single chain polymeric nanomaterials, which could only be produced in limited yield by conventional methods in the past, to a wide array of applications such as biomedicine, catalysis, and biosensing. The scale-up prepared single chain polymeric nanomaterials can also be a valuable tool to assist fundamental researches.” 

Professor Bian began individual research work in CUHK in 2013. He has been committed to the development of advanced nano materials and hydrogel materials in the area of biomedical applications and gradually established in-depth research, from basic materials science and biomedicine to medical application. Graduate students and post-doctoral researchers supervised by Professor Bian have received many prestigious awards for their excellent research work. The project was supported by the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, HKSAR Government Food and Health Bureau’s Health and Medical Research Fund, National Science Foundation of China, Innovation and Technology Commission’s Innovation Technology Fund and Chow Yuk Ho Technology Centre for Innovative Medicine.

This article was originally published on CUHK Communications and Public Relations Office website and edited by the Faculty of Engineering.

 

The mechanism of preparing the single chain nano object: The new approach for scaling up the production of single chain nano gels with over 20-fold increase in efficiency compared with conventional methods. 

Single cell nano gels can enter the stem cells and deliver therapeutic cargo into the stem cells.

Single cell nano gels can regulate the functions of stem cells on the surface of biomaterial implants.

Single cell nano gels can protect cells from excessive mechanical loading in biomaterial implants.

Professor Liming Bian (4th from right, back row) from the Department of the Biomedical Engineering, CUHK and his research team.

 

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中大推機械腳 助小兒麻痹患者屈膝

小兒麻痹症患者會有肌肉萎縮、下肢無力的情況，病情輕微者會影響走路，需要工具輔助，嚴重者則要以輪椅代步，行動極為不便。中大生物醫學工程學系跟醫管局社區康復中心合作，推出電子機械腳先導計畫，已招募六名患者試驗，機械腳感應器會協助患者抬起腳。年近六十歲的參與者表示，半歲患病至今膝關節從未試過屈曲，如今有機械腳協助，「可以一步一步屈膝，等如你（一般人）可以在月球漫步的感覺。」

Date: 
Thursday, July 25, 2019
Media: 
Sing Tao Daily
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http://shorturl.at/ckEX0

裝新型機械腳 小兒麻痺漢終可屈膝

屈膝邁步向前，是普通人的本能動作，但對部分小兒麻痺症患者來說卻是「不可能的任務」。59 歲的朱先生半歲起患小兒麻痺症，右腳失去活動能力，長距離路程要以輪椅代步。去年醫管局及中文大學生物醫學工程學系研發新型機械腳，裝置可自動做出屈膝動作助患者踏步。朱先生感嘆：「知不知我渴望了多久屈膝的感覺？由半歲至50 多歲！」他說裝置減少坐輪椅時間，對患者來說非常難得。

Date: 
Thursday, July 25, 2019
Media: 
Ming Pao
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http://shorturl.at/cjoO7

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