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Researchers give robots a sense of touch by “listening” to vibrations, allowing them to identify materials, understand shapes and recognize objects just like human hands

Engineers are facing more ethical dilemmas in their professional lives than ever before. Students need to be taught how to handle them

No matter how clean our technologies become, people must be persuaded to use them to make a difference

Faculty entrepreneurs from Duke Engineering share their experiences of what it takes to spin a startup out of a university.

Duke researchers are pursuing robots that learn like humans, help perform delicate surgeries, and look after crewed space flights.

Highly competitive national awards will help new and returning BME graduate students and post-docs conduct exciting research

Learn more about Duke University's Provost and one of our newest Professors of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

A three-decade quest by Michael Rubinstein spanning multiple institutions has made the North Carolina Research Triangle into a hub of new scientific study

Recent discoveries from the lab of Michael Rubinstein, PhD, the Aleksander S. Vesic Distinguished Professor, could one day allow cystic fibrosis patients to breathe easier and perhaps live longer

The hands-on curriculum for Duke's refreshed first-year programming course focuses first on computational thinking.

Cheng’s work focuses on dexterous manipulation in robotics, emphasizing the need for robotic systems that can handle diverse complicated manual tasks

The Karsh STEM+ Scholars Program will match undergraduate students who have declared majors in disciplines in the natural sciences, engineering, and STEM-related fields with faculty in the Pratt School of Engineering and Trinity College of Arts & Sciences.