{"id":9322,"date":"2025-03-27T23:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T03:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roborn.com\/?p=9322"},"modified":"2025-05-12T23:20:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T03:20:19","slug":"tvb%e3%80%8abig-city-shop%e3%80%8binterview%ef%bd%9c-outstanding-young-scientist-mark-mak-on-using-robotics-to-shape-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roborn.com\/?p=9322","title":{"rendered":"TVB\u300aBig City Shop\u300bInterview\uff5c Outstanding Young Scientist Mark Mak on Using Robotics to Shape the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[Hong Kong] Hong Kong is often said to lack innovation-and-technology talent, yet local scientist Mark Mak (\u9ea6\u9a9e\u8a89) has developed more than 20 medical- and education-focused robots and holds over 100 patents\u2014achievements that earned him a place among this year\u2019s \u201cTen Outstanding Young Persons of Hong Kong.\u201d In a recent interview on TVB\u2019s lifestyle show <em>Dolce Vita<\/em>, Mak traced his journey from childhood dreams to a thriving tech career and shared his hopes for the city\u2019s I&amp;T development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Planting the \u201cRobot-Hero Dream\u201d<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Mak recalls that, growing up in a modest household, television cartoons were his main form of entertainment\u2014especially series featuring giant robots. Those shows sparked a dream of \u201csaving the world with robots.\u201d Realizing he needed practical skills to pursue that goal, he chose to study electronic engineering at university, laying the groundwork for a future in robotics and eventually founding his own company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Breaking Through Local Constraints\u2014Insisting on R&amp;D in Hong Kong<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Mak faced numerous hurdles in his early start-up days: an immature innovation ecosystem, long investment cycles, and sky-high rents for workshop space. Friends even asked why he didn\u2019t become a banker or lawyer instead. \u201cHong Kong is my home,\u201d he says, \u201cand I want the seeds of technology to sprout here.\u201d Staying true to that conviction, his team has delivered multiple breakthroughs\u2014most notably an ICU robot deployed during COVID-19 that lets clinicians adjust ventilators remotely and safely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Signature Work: China\u2019s First 5G Bionic Robot<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Mak\u2019s proudest achievement is China\u2019s first 5G bionic robot, created in collaboration with a Beijing laboratory. Demonstrations have since been held across \u201cBelt and Road\u201d countries\u2014such as Uganda and South Africa\u2014where operators in Beijing controlled the robot live on site, showcasing Hong Kong\u2019s technological prowess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Call for Young People to Join the I&amp;T Arena<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking ahead, Mak hopes to foster a \u201ctech-ecosystem mindset\u201d in Hong Kong, drawing more young people into innovation and technology. His next focus is deeper human-robot collaboration, gathering ideas from diverse fields to build even smarter machines. \u201cIf you persevere,\u201d he tells the public, \u201cHong Kongers can absolutely shine on the global tech stage!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u3010Source\u3011TVB\u300aBig City Shop\u300bInterview Cut is uploaded to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mytvsuper.com\/tc\/programme\/bigcityshop_118508\/%E6%B5%81%E8%A1%8C%E9%83%BD%E5%B8%82\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.mytvsuper.com\/tc\/programme\/bigcityshop_118508\/%E6%B5%81%E8%A1%8C%E9%83%BD%E5%B8%82\/\">official site<\/a>\u3002<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Hong Kong] Hong Kong is often said to lack innovation-and-technology talent, yet local scientist Mark Mak (\u9ea6\u9a9e\u8a89) has developed more than 20 medical- and education-focused robots and holds over 100 patents\u2014achievements that earned him a place among this year\u2019s \u201cTen Outstanding Young Persons of Hong Kong.\u201d In a recent interview on TVB\u2019s lifestyle show Dolce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roborn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roborn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roborn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roborn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roborn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.roborn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9323,"href":"https:\/\/www.roborn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9322\/revisions\/9323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roborn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roborn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roborn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roborn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}