BART LAB Rescue won the 2nd Place at World RoboCup Rescue 2010 in Singapore
On June 19-26, 2010, BART LAB Rescue attended the Rescue Robot League at the World RoboCup 2010 held in Singapore. There were about more than 20 teams, internationally, to attend the competition, including, Pelican United/ Japan, CASualty/Australia, MRL/Iran and a few Hi-Ranked Thai teams (
“iRAP_Pro,” Past World Champion from 2009, “BART LAB Rescue,” Champion from TRR2009 and Japan Open 2010, and “SUCCESS,” Best-In-Class: Advanced Mobility from TRR2009).
BART LAB Rescue was advanced to the Semi-Final Round with other 9 teams, internationally, including the 2 Thai teams. The Semi-Final Round required 2 missions, and the results came out as followed:

BART LAB Rescue won the first prize at RoboCup Japan Open 2010
In May 1-4, 2010 at Osaka, Japan: BART LAB Rescue team attended the Rescue League at RoboCup Japan Open 2010. There were 11 teams from Japan, [including, “CIT Pelican,” former World Champion ’01 - ’05, “Shinobi,” Japan Champion ’09, and “Nexis-R,”

BART LAB Members visited Robotics Labs at NARA Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)
In May 6, 2010 at Nara, Japan: After receiving the Rescue Robot Championship from Japan Open, BART LAB Members visited the Robotics Labs in Nara

Mahidol BME signed an MOU with UCLA Center for Small Bowel Disease for Research Collaboration
On April 17, 2010, Dr. Jackrit Suthakorn as the Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Mahidol University has signed an MOU for research collaboration and exchanging program with the UCLA

Dr. Suthakorn Visited UCLA Center for Advanced Surgical and Interventional Technology (CASIT)
During April 15-17, 2010, Dr. Jackrit Suthakorn, BART LAB Director, and Dr. Yodchanan Wongsawat joined with a group of researchers from National Innovation Agency (NIA), National Science and Technology