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

Volker Blum helps a team of researchers gain fundamental insights into designing materials that allow exotic quantum states at high temperatures.

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.

Boyuan Chen is advancing robotics to help machines perceive their environment, adapt to real-world scenarios, and collaborate effectively with humans

Unusual atomic vibrations in a crystalline structure explain potential solid-state battery material’s superionic transport abilities

Duke's Medical Robotics Symposium highlighted advancements in surgical technology, emphasizing the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration between engineers, clinicians and students

Stabilizing the glassy state of materials using rare instrumentation unlocks a new line of research for perovskites