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Hong Kongโ€™s CUHK aims to bring AI to life with humanoid-focused robotics lab

The Chinese University of Hong Kong has opened the cityโ€™s first full-stack interactive robotics lab, partnering with 24 tech firms, mainly from mainland China, to train talent and develop humanoid robots over the next five years. The Hong Kong Embodied AI Lab, established by CUHKโ€™s Hong Kong Centre for Logistics Robotics under the governmentโ€™s InnoHK initiative, has already introduced upgraded versions of the cityโ€™s first locally developed artificial intelligence (AI)-powered robotic arms and a...

Why Hong Kong scientists think GLP-1 weight-loss drugs can help stroke patients

Popular weight-loss injections have the potential to help patients recover from severe strokes when used alongside a surgical procedure to remove blood clots in the brain, scientists at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) have said. The scientists said on Thursday that administering a GLP-1 injection before and after a thrombectomy, a blood clot removal procedure, could have neuroprotective effects and improve the neurological recovery of ischemic stroke patients by as much as 20 per cent...