Recently, the results of the Red Dot Award 2025 – known as the "Oscar of the design industry" – were officially announced. An interdisciplinary team composed of teachers and students from the School of Urban Design, the School of Robotics, and our school of Wuhan University stood out from over 10,000 entries worldwide with a humanoid robot five-fingered dexterous hand for service scenarios, winning the Winner Innovative Design. This is also the first core component of a humanoid robot whole machine to win an international top design award since the launch of Special Action for Humanoid Robot Whole Machine R&D by Hubei Province.

The R&D of this dexterous hand integrates the wisdom of multiple disciplines. Its technical foundation is the "tendon rope lightweight structure" developed by the team led by Miao Li, Professor at the School of Robotics. The team led by Tingting Jiang, Professor at our school, provided an important basis for human-computer interaction experience based on a user experience model of physiological measurement. The design was led by Jun Deng team, Associate Professor at the School of Urban Design, which deeply integrated the concept of "digital and intelligent design" into the product's shape, materials, structure, and human-computer interaction.

Founded in 1955, the Red Dot Award is known as one of the world's three major design awards, along with iF Design Award (Germany) and IDEA (USA). In 2025, the Red Dot Award continued to conduct strict evaluations based on five dimensions: innovation, functionality, durability, emotional value, and sustainability concept. The award-winning humanoid robot five-fingered dexterous hand belongs to the Innovative Design category, and the number of winning works in this category accounts for only about 2% of all winning works.

It is worth mentioning that the Embodied Cognition and Experience Measurement Experimental Space, built relying on the Intelligent Computing Laboratory for Cultural Heritage of Wuhan University, provided strong support for the design of this dexterous hand. Different from most existing digital humanities and social computing laboratories that rely on indirect data such as literature materials and Internet usage traces, the Embodied Cognition and Experience Measurement Experimental Space integrates environment simulation, experience measurement, and data analysis technologies. It also incorporates real user subjects, realizing full-process support for the generation, collection, and analysis of direct human-intelligence interaction data, and constructing and implementing a complete data-driven methodology.

In April this year, the case "Empowering the Training of New Information Management Talents through the Digital and Intelligent Experimental Space for Embodied Cognition and Experience Measurement" won the special prize in the Typical Application Scenario Competition of AI Empowering Higher Education at Wuhan University.

Previously, the work Resonant Shadows – An Intelligent Light and Shadow Art Therapy Theater for Autism Based on EEG Neurofeedback, jointly guided by Tingting Jiang and Jun Deng, won the national second prize and the Best Social Value Award at the International User Experience Innovation Competition (UXDA) 2024. By combining the rigor of empirical research with the innovation of practical application, the experimental space is committed to providing theoretical guidance for the design of human-centered AI systems in various fields, and promoting the development of system transparency, user autonomy, and ethical controllability.