Recently, the Basic Research Department of the Ministry of Science and Technology organized a panel of experts to examine the feasibility of the construction program of Key State Laboratory on Robotics in Changchun.

The panel agreed unanimously to start the construction program of the lab as soon as possible and suggested that the laboratory, by targeting at some forefronts of robotics, strengthen its efforts to introduce talented people and create a liberal academic atmosphere to make distinctive breakthroughs in basic research.