Research Overview

Duke Robotics faculty, students, and postdocs are engaged in high-impact research spanning many areas in robotics. Our members have received numerous honors, including four NSF CAREER awards, numerous grants from NSF, NIH, DOD, and several best paper awards.

Robotics Faculty

Research Areas

Artificial Intelligence

Boyuan Chen

Miroslav Pajic

Michael Zavlanos

Bio-Inspired Robotics

Boyuan Chen

Control Systems

Michael Zavlanos

Medical Robotics

Joanna Deaton Bertram

Patrick James Codd

Brian Mann

Siobhan Rigby Oca

Robot Manipulation

Boyuan Chen

Xianyi Cheng

Robot Perception

Boyuan Chen

Miroslav Pajic

Swarm & Multi-Agent Systems

Boyuan Chen

Miroslav Pajic

Michael Zavlanos

Research Labs

Brain Tool Laboratory

Where engineering meets neurosurgery

PI: Patrick James Codd

Cyber-Physical Systems Lab

Researching safe, autonomous cyber-physical systems by integrating modeling, AI, controls, and formal methods

PI: Miroslav Pajic

General Robotics Lab

robot icons

PI: Boyuan Chen

Oca Lab

PI: Siobhan Rigby Oca

Robot Dexterity Lab

Human-level dexterity in robotic manipulation

PI: Xianyi Cheng

Zavlanos Group

PI: Michael Zavlanos

Thank you to our Sponsors

DARPA

NIH

ARL