On 202114, Dharma Institute announced the winners of the 4th Green Orange Award, and * * * 10 young scholars won the prize and shared tens of millions of prizes. Among them, Zhao Huichan, a female professor in Tsinghua, has received a lot of attention.

According to media reports, 32-year-old Zhao Huichan worked as a researcher at Harvard University and returned to his alma mater, Tsinghua University, to teach three years ago, becoming the youngest teacher at that time. For many years, Zhao Huichan has been devoted to the technical research in soft robot. During the epidemic, she and her team developed the world's first throat swab sampling robot.

Technology is still changing.

June, 5438+October, 2020 10, Tsinghua University asked Zhao Huichan's team to develop a robot for Wuhan, so that medical staff could do throat swab sampling without wearing masks and protective clothing.

Zhao Huichan said that there has never been a throat swab sampling robot in the world. It's really crossing the river by feeling the stones and designing from scratch. After 8 months of production, Zhao Huichan's team completed the prototype. On June+10, 5438, the prototype went to a hospital for sampling, and the technology was still changing.