November 2019: Ebu served as an Associate Editor during the paper review process of The 2020 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII 2020), Hawaii, USA.
October 2019: Undergraduate student Ben Lewis received the Best Researcher Award for his graduation project “Sampling the Digestive Tract using Capsule Robots” from School of Food and Advanced Technology, Massey University.
![Best Researcher Award certificate, awarded to Ben Lewis.](https://sites.massey.ac.nz/microrobotics/wp-content/uploads/sites/78/2021/02/ben_award.png)
August 2019: Ebu is invited to serve as a Program Committee Member for MARSS Conferences (The Annual International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales).
August 2019: PhD student Muhammad Rehan received the runner-up award for his micro-gut capsule development work during the IEEE postgraduate presentation day at Massey University, Palmerston North.
![Muhammad Rehan accepts the runner-up award for his micro-gut capsule development work.](https://sites.massey.ac.nz/microrobotics/wp-content/uploads/sites/78/2021/02/Rehan_IEEE_Presentation.jpg)
July 2019: Ebu delivered an invited talk “Contact micromanipulation in 3D” at MARSS 2019 – International Conference on Manipulation Automation and Robotics at Small Scales.
![Ebu presents "Contact micromanipulation in 3D" at MARSS 2019](https://sites.massey.ac.nz/microrobotics/wp-content/uploads/sites/78/2021/02/EbuMARSS-1024x683.jpg)
July 2019: Ebu delivered an invited talk “Micro-nano robotics for bio-medical applications” at The Department of Precision and Microsystems Engineering, TU Delft, Netherlands.
May 2019: We have a new paper published on the design of a “compliant micro-gripper” in Micromachines.
March 2019: Ebu has become an Associate Investigator in The MacDiarmid Institute.