医疗机器人与微创手术器械研究中心（微创中心）成立于2007年8月，在两任首席科学家、英国皇家工程院院士杨广中教授和美国斯坦福大学邢磊教授的指导下，在管理团队和研发骨干的共同努力下，逐步形成了围绕医疗机器人与可穿戴技术进行原始创新和转化研究、突出工程任务协同攻关和工程教育能力建设的特色。微创中心的学科方向集中在生物医学电子学和医学物理学，研究领域主要涉及影像引导治疗技术和人体传感器网络技术。

The MIS research center was founded on August 2007. The honorary chief scientist for the research center was prof. Guangzhong Yang (Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering, Imperial College London) on 2007-2012, and has been prof. Lei Xing (Stanford University) since 2012. The research center focuses on the proprietary innovations and translational research within the field of medical robots and wearable technologies, where the highlights for the research center are labelled as achieving key engineering tasks cooperatively and improving engineering education abilities constantly. The scientific disciplines for the research center are Biomedical Electronics and Medical Physics. The primary research areas cover Imaging-Guided Therapeutics and Body Sensor Networks。