Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

As a branch of the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) in Southern China, the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT) was jointly established by Chinese Academy of Science and Shenzhen municipal government in Feb, 2006.Knowledge-application oriented, SIAT set up its mission as: enhancing the innovative creation capability of modern equipment manufacturing and service industries in the region of Guangdong and Hongkong; promoting the development of emerging industries with self-owned Intellectual Property. SIAT aims to be: "first-class industry research institute"; "first-class talent development place" and "first-class enterprises incubator".To meet national needs in healthcare and manufacturing, SIAT sets its orientation towards the emerging industries of “low-cost healthcare”, "service robot" "digital city" and "new energy",　With regarding to industry cooperation, SIAT has established concrete partnership with more than 20 firms including Huawei, Midea, CIMC, etc, attracted over 20 million RMB investment from industries, and hatched 11 high-technology companies.In a broad range of research areas, SIAT has established long-term international cooperation with foreign academic and research institutions, including National Information & Communication Technology (Australia), TRlabs (Canada), Hamburger University (Germany) and University of Southampton (UK).