Li Haobo, a third-year student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Faculty of Science and Technology at the University of Macau (UM), led an interdisciplinary student team to compete in the ‘MetaBCI Innovative Application Development’ category at the World Robot Contest 2025—Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) Controlled Robot Contest, where they won the Grand Prize. The team’s award-winning electroencephalogram (EEG)-based system can monitor emotions and psychological states. Its innovative design and exceptional performance are testament to UM’s teaching excellence in artificial intelligence and brain-computer interface technology.
The World Robot Contest, hosted by the Chinese Institute of Electronics and first held in 2015, reached its tenth edition this year. To date, the contest has attracted over 500,000 participants from more than 20 countries and regions. Participants include outstanding teams from leading universities and research institutes worldwide, including Tsinghua University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Zhejiang University, Harbin Institute of Technology, Beihang University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of British Columbia. The contest has garnered widespread acclaim and is known as the ‘Olympic Games’ in the field of robotics.
UM formed several interdisciplinary teams with 31 doctoral, master’s, and undergraduate students from various disciplines. They competed in eight categories of the contest and achieved excellent results under the guidance of Wan Feng, associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Faculty of Science and Technology.
Li Haobo has participated in the contest for three consecutive years since 2023 and achieved outstanding results every year. This year, he led his team to win the Grand Prize. They integrated advanced learning algorithms with a user interaction model to build a personalised database of psychological state features, enabling precise recognition of users’ emotions and psychological states. The system can be seamlessly integrated into smart home systems, enabling automated control based on context awareness. It has broad application prospects in areas such as mental health monitoring and intelligent human-computer interaction.
澳門大學科技學院電機及電腦工程系大三學生李浩博帶領跨學科團隊於2025世界機器人大賽—BCI腦控機器人大賽中榮膺“MetaBCI創新應用開發賽項”特等獎。團隊的獲獎研究是基於腦電圖的情緒與心理狀態監測系統，其創新設計與卓越性能，展現了澳大在人工智能與腦機接口技術方面的教學成果。
由中國電子學會主辦的世界機器人大賽自2015年起已成功舉辦了十屆，吸引逾20個國家及地區超過50萬名選手參賽，包括來自清華大學、上海交通大學、浙江大學、哈爾濱工業大學、北京航空航天大學、華中科技大學、加州大學洛杉磯分校、英屬哥倫比亞大學等全球知名高校及科研機構的優秀團隊，被廣泛讚譽為機器人界的“奧林匹克”。
31名來自澳大不同學系的博士生、碩士生與本科生組成了多個跨學科團隊，參與是次大賽共八個賽項，並在澳大科技學院電機及電腦工程系副教授萬峰的指導下，取得優異成績。
李浩博自2023年起連續三年參賽，屢獲佳績，今年更作為分賽隊長帶領團隊奪得特等獎。該團隊融合AI算法與主動式交互策略，基於用戶需求構建個性化狀態特徵庫，實現對用戶情緒與心理狀態的精準識別，並可無縫接入智能家居系統，實現情境感知下的自動化操作，在心理健康監測、智能人機交互等領域具有廣泛的應用前景。
Li Haobo’s team wins the Grand Prize in the ‘MetaBCI Innovative Application Development’ category
李浩博團隊獲“MetaBCI創新應用開發賽項”特等獎
A group photo of the UM team
澳大團隊合照