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Danying Sun is a leading researcher in the field of soft and continuum robotics, with a focus on advancing minimally invasive surgery and biomedical applications. Their work spans design, actuation, modeling, and control, with a particular emphasis on small-scale, untethered, and bioinspired systems. Sun’s most cited paper, a comprehensive survey on continuum robots (94 citations), establishes foundational knowledge in the field, while their high-precision force estimation and compliant control work (24 citations) directly addresses critical safety and accuracy challenges in surgical tools like radiofrequency ablation devices. They have also pioneered soft lightweight parallel robots with high-precision positioning (14 citations) and developed a bioinspired multi-legged soft robot (12 citations) that draws from echinoderm tentacle morphology. Notable recent achievements include an innovative “intake and work” imaging technique using Cy5 dye for intraoperative navigation of gastric lesions (2024), and a learning-based inverse kinematics solver for magnetic continuum robots enabling teleoperated navigation. Sun’s efficient multi-solution solver for constant-curvature robots (2023) further demonstrates their commitment to practical, real-time control solutions. With a growing citation record and a clear trajectory toward clinical translation, Sun is shaping the future of soft robotics in medicine.