The development of "Holinser Forceps System" is a joint R&D effort between the Industrial Centre and Department of Manufacturing Engineering of the PolyU. The principal researchers, Dr. TC Ng and Dr. KL Yung, through their involvement with surgical precision tweezers design and robot end-effector design, belief that tweezers being the most common hand instruments used in the laboratory when properly designed can be extend the functionality of human hands far beyond that can be achieved today. A specific application of this concept is to help astronauts and scientists when working under zero or micro gravity.

As one of the partners of this R&D project, the Industrial Centre has actively participated in the design and manufacturing of the end-effectors, using the Centre's advanced manufacturing and testing facilities, such as CAD/CAM, Laser, EDM, precision machine tools and CMM.

The team has the honour of having the Honourable Professor C.N.Yang (the first Chinese Nobel Prize Winner) to be the project advisor.