Jian Sheng Dai - Biography#

Dr. Dai is currently the Chair Professor of Mechanisms and Robotics in the Department of Engineering, King’s College London, U.K. From 1989 to 1999, he held teaching and research appointments at University of Salford and University of Sunderland in the UK. He was a senior visiting scholar to universities in Japan, Italy, France and Brazil.

In 1998, he created a class of novel mechanisms coined as "metamorphic mechanisms", that took the concept of Origami and the biological evolution, to make the mechanisms in the context of robot structures reconfigurable and changeable, to adapt to environmental change and task variation. He initiated a very prestigious international conference series and set up over 8 special issues in leading journals. This created a new field as reconfigurable mechanisms and new subfield as metamorphic mechanisms.

He created a mathematical system for screw theory and has been conducting world-leading research in the general area of kinematics and mechanisms and robotics and published over 371 SCI papers and 284 peer-reviewed conference papers. He is among the top 4 scholars in his general field of mechanisms in the world.

In the past 25 years, he continues the work and creates many novel applications. His collaboration in Europe enabled setting up a reconfigurable robotics lab in Istituto Italiano di Tecnolgia (IIT), and the development of ARBOT at IIT that attracted a large investment for setting up Movendo Technology Srl.

His technology also consists of a core technology for AiTreat Pte Ltd that is a Singapore high-tech company to provide enhanced mechanical adaptivity to produce seven generations of the massaging robot EMMA in ten clinics in Singapore with over 1000 customers & over 5000 times of use. This societal and economic impact is international leading as evaluated by the REF 2021 (Research Excellence Framework 2021) as reported in

https://results2021.ref.ac.uk/impact/eeb76b32-cad6-455d-8079-612ae40259b1?page=1