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Duke’s investment in state-of-the-art research tools empower scientists and engineers to uncover microscopic insights about everything from electronics to medicine.

Household robots and AI assistants illustrate how personality can make technology more approachable, while also amplifying ethical dilemmas.

New wearable device technology continuously monitors skin and tissue stiffness to provide real-time medical and athletic insights.

From forest-traversing robot dogs to AI-native workers, Boyuan Chen's advances in artificial general intelligence are blurring the lines between science fiction and reality.

Duke’s Artificial Intelligence for Materials (aiM) program trains graduate students to use AI to accelerate materials discovery.

Chen’s research focuses on developing full-stack robotics that includes the mechanical structures as well as its AI-based software.

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.

Boyuan Chen's General Robotics Lab is just one group using the opportunities that Duke Forest provides to design, test and train drones.

Incorporating weak bonds that lay the groundwork for new networks allows tougher double-network hydrogels that recover from damage

A new Beyond the Horizon project seeks to provide the fundamental understanding of solid-state sodium-ion batteries to make them the preferred power source of the future

Stefano Curtarolo provides insight on a proposed method to quickly and cheaply synthesize an emerging class of super hard materials

Olivier Delaire used the power of neutron scattering and large-scale computer simulations to figure out what's going on inside these materials.