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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the robust \(\mathcal{H}_{\infty}\) control and filtering problems for a class of continuous-time nonlinear systems with norm-bounded uncertainties and unknown constant state-delays. The parametric uncertainties are real time-varying and norm-bounded and the nonlinearities are state-dependent and cone-bounded. The delays are time-varying and bounded both in the state and at the input. The author investigates the robust \(\mathcal{H}_{\infty}\) control design problem such that the stabilization of the closed-loop feedback system is guaranteed with a prescribed \(\mathcal{H}_{\infty}\)-norm bound constraint on disturbance attenuation for all admissible uncertainties and unknown state delay. For the robust \(\mathcal{H}_{\infty}\) filtering problem, a robust filter is provided such that the estimation error dynamics is quadratically stable and ensures a prescribed \(\mathcal{H}_{\infty}\) performance. For both problems, the results are expressed in the form of finite-dimensional algebraic Riccati equations and explicit formulae for the gain matrices are provided. The equations can be effectively handled by existing software.