Empowering Robots with Human-Like Perception to Navigate Unwieldy Terrain
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.

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.
MEMS PhD student Kent Yamamoto was part of a team that won first place at the American College of Surgeons 2025 Surgeons and Engineers Meeting for their life-size inguinal hernia simulator.
Competitive five-year grant will help Wang understand the potential of a 2D class of materials with high-performing characteristics.
A team led by Cynthia Rudin created the tool with artificial intelligence. The simple scorecard, used in hospitals everywhere, saves lives.
The imaging technique makes it easier to conduct behavioral studies of freely moving animals
Jessilyn Dunn gathers biometric data from smartwatches to study and predict health changes
The NSF- and DHS-funded institute attracted visitors from industry and government to showcase Duke’s leadership in artificial intelligence and edge computing.
Duke roboticists present HUMAC, a new framework that enables robots to collaborate like humans with just 40 minutes of simple coaching.
Duke Civil & Environmental Engineering alumni look back on lessons learned from their uniquely structured senior capstone class.
Recent BME graduate Neil Upreti received the Knight-Hennessy Scholarship for graduate study at Stanford University
When Emma Maddock first started as a biomedical engineering student at Duke, she thought she'd want to explore how to design prosthetic devices. But after taking courses in the BME wet labs, she decided to change course.
On Sunday, May 11, 2025, Duke Engineering celebrated nearly 1,100 graduates from its various programs.
Several groups of students and faculty in multiple programs tied to Duke Engineering are working to help those suffering from humanitarian crises.