Yikang Medical Wins 2025 Ministry of Education Science Award

Recognized for Outstanding Achievements in Scientific Research

Recently, the Ministry of Education officially announced the results of the 2025 Outstanding Scientific Research Achievement Award (Natural Sciences and Engineering Technology). The project "Key Technologies and Applications of Interactive Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Neurorehabilitation Robots," led by Professor Yu Hongliu's team from Shanghai University of Science and Technology and jointly submitted with Guangzhou Yikang Medical Equipment Industry Co., Ltd., won the second prize for engineering technology research achievements! Yikang Medical, as the award-winning unit, and its Chairman Du Jiliang, as one of the project award recipients, have made outstanding contributions to the key technological innovation and clinical application of high-end rehabilitation robots.

Technology drives industrial innovation
Breakthrough in high-end rehabilitation robot technology barriers

In the field of neurorehabilitation, enabling robots to achieve precise coordinated movements across multiple joints and degrees of freedom, and to interact with humans naturally and safely, has always been a core technological and industrial bottleneck restricting the development of high-end rehabilitation robots. To overcome this challenge, Yikang Medical has established a long-term and close collaborative research and development relationship with Professor Yu Hongliu's team at Shanghai University of Science and Technology.

Through deep integration of cutting-edge academic innovation and industrialization practice, both parties have successfully achieved breakthroughs in a series of key core technologies, including upper limb full kinetic chain equivalent mechanism modeling and biomimetic creation technology, lower limb gait assistance and motor training integrated multi-joint collaborative biomimetic configuration technology, and highly sensitive and compliant interactive control based on human movement intentions. These core breakthroughs have jointly constructed a complete interactive multi-degree-of-freedom neurorehabilitation robot technology system, laying a solid technical foundation for achieving safe, efficient, and personalized active rehabilitation training.

Products built upon this technology platform have reached or partially surpassed international advanced levels in key indicators such as degrees of freedom of movement, precision of collaborative control, and compliance of human-computer interaction. Currently, these innovative products are in clinical use in over 2,000 general hospitals and rehabilitation institutions nationwide, and have successfully entered overseas markets, breaking the long-standing technological and market monopoly of developed countries. This has enabled domestically produced high-end rehabilitation equipment to leap from "following" to "keeping pace" and even "leading" in some areas. Thanks to their superior performance and reputation, these products maintain a leading market share in China, creating significant economic and social benefits and powerfully propelling China's neurorehabilitation robot technology to the forefront of the world.

Committed to Innovation
Empowering the future of rehabilitation with technology

As a national high-tech enterprise, Yikang Medical's receipt of the Ministry of Education's Science and Technology Achievement Award is not only an authoritative recognition of Yikang Medical's long-term, in-depth, and efficient industry-university-research collaborative innovation capabilities with top university research teams, but also a high affirmation of the company's consistent commitment to independent innovation, tackling core and key technologies, and successfully industrializing and commercializing high-end rehabilitation equipment. This marks another milestone achievement for the company in cultivating new productivity in the rehabilitation field and promoting industrial upgrading.

In the future, Yikang Medical will continue to deepen its strategic cooperation with universities, research institutes and clinical institutions, drive the development of rehabilitation medicine with technological innovation, and inject stronger momentum into the construction of "Healthy China".