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Shandong University of Technology has established itself as a dynamic research institution at the intersection of robotics, artificial intelligence, and intelligent systems, with a remarkably diverse portfolio spanning agricultural automation, medical robotics, flexible electronics, and mobile robot navigation. The university's research community has made significant contributions that resonate globally, as evidenced by hundreds of citations across multiple high-impact domains. Among the institution's most celebrated contributions is groundbreaking work on piezoelectric materials for flexible and wearable electronics, which has garnered nearly 500 citations, positioning the university as a leader in self-powered sensing technologies with direct applications in healthcare monitoring and human-computer interactive robotics. Equally impressive is the team's rapid-response innovation during the COVID-19 pandemic, developing a highly redundant rigid-flexible coupling collaborative robot for oropharyngeal swab sampling — a real-world demonstration of how robotics research can address urgent global health crises. Shandong researchers have also carved out a distinctive niche in agricultural robotics, developing advanced deep learning frameworks based on improved YOLO architectures for precise fruit detection, yield estimation, and precision spraying — work with substantial implications for smart farming and autonomous harvesting systems. Their sustained contributions to mobile robot path planning, particularly through chaotic motion strategies and reinforcement learning approaches, reflect decades of foundational expertise in autonomous navigation. Further strengths include multimodal RGB-D object recognition, visual servo control of nonholonomic mobile robots, biometric security for VR and metaverse applications, and swarm robotics algorithms. Prospective students and collaborators will find a vibrant, practically-oriented research environment where fundamental AI methodologies meet transformative real-world engineering challenges across agriculture, medicine, and intelligent manufacturing.