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 ...

A new Duke-developed AI system fuses vision, vibrations, touch and its own body states to help robots understand and move through difficult in-the-wild environments. The wealth of information provided ...

I almost didn’t become an engineer. That might sound dramatic, but it’s true. If you had told me years ago that I would be studying engineering at Duke—let alone writing about it—I wouldn’t have ...

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 ...

A Climate+ project built a data mining algorithm capable of connecting satellite imagery data to levels of salinity in coastal rivers, which could help communities prepare for the effects of climate ...

Krzyzewskiville has become a staple of the Duke undergraduate experience, ever since its inception in 1986. What started as a few tents pitched on the lawn in front of Cameron Indoor Stadium 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 ...

“CFCI empowers driven students to make their innovations a reality,” said Steve McClelland, executive director of CFCI. “QuikCal is proof of what’s possible when students rise to that ...

Researchers have developed a platform called Text2Robot that leverages generative AI to design and deliver functional robots with just a few spoken words. When personal computers were first invented, ...