The students’ version of Tommy the Trach Baby is augmented with several mechanical and electrical parts, including a servo motor in his arm that mimics a pulse, a speaker in his torso that plays ...

Tony Jun Huang, the William Bevan Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science (MEMS), has received the 2025 Per Bruel Gold Medal for Noise Control and Acoustics from the ...

Now, researchers from Duke University have developed a novel framework named WildFusion that fuses vision, vibration and touch to enable robots to “sense” complex outdoor environments much like humans ...

One of the defining moments of my time at Duke wasn’t in a classroom or a lab, it was an email. After publishing an opinion piece on climate activism in The Chronicle, I received a message from Volker ...

Professor Joanna Bertram joined the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science (MEMS) this past winter, bringing her expertise in the field of medical robotics.. Professor ...

Since 2015, the Data+ summer research program has allowed small teams of students to explore the potential of data visualization and analysis. Now, its new sister spinoff initiative Climate+ has ...

Faculty Awards. Miaofang Chi was named a Fellow of the Materials Research Society; Ashutosh Chilkoti won the 2025 Technology Innovation and Development Award from the Society for Biomaterials; Stefano ...

For more than a decade, Martin Brooke, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering (ECE), has taught an ocean engineering design course in Gross Hall next to the illustrious waters of ...

While serving as a visiting professor in Benevento, outside of Naples, Italy, Adrian Bejan noticed something about the local architecture: All the roofs looked the same. With what seemed like ...

MSI Acquires Innovative AI Software from Duke University Students to Power‬ Smarter Construction Planning ‭QuikCal‭, a construction site delivery scheduling system started by three Duke University ...

“Building a functional robot has traditionally been a slow and expensive process requiring deep expertise in engineering, AI and manufacturing,” said Boyuan Chen, the Dickinson Faculty Assistant ...

Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering broke into the top 20 graduate engineering programs in the country for the first time as ranked by U.S. News and World Report.The recognition of the ...