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U.S. RoboticsU.S. Robotics was a company that made computer modems. It merged with and became a subsidiary of 3Com Corporation in June 1997. Today, 3Com makes modems and networking devices under the U.S. Robotics brand name.
The name for the company is likely a reference to Isaac Asimov, who is widely credited with inventing the term robotics, and several of whose stories featured a fictional company named U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men. Interestingly, the 2004 movie I, Robot, loosely based on Asimov's works, uses U.S. Robotics as the name of the fictional robot manufacturer.
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Multi-purpose Aerial Robotic Vehicle with Intelligent Navigation, TU Berlin
At the University Berlin, Marvin, a descendant of the airplane-robot Tubrob is developed.
http://pdv.cs.tu-berlin.de/
LIRA-Lab: Laboratory for Integrated Advanced Robotics
Artificial vision and sensory-motor coordination from a computational neuroscience perspective. Experimentation is done with humanoid robots as well as basic research on artificial vision and robot control.
http://www.lira.dist.unige.it/
research in the field of robots and cyborgs
Gert conducts research in the field of robots and cyborgs.
http://www.it-c.dk/~gba/index.english.html
Biomimetic Robotics Lab at Stanford University
Research on developing a new class of biologically inspired robots that are substantially more compliant and stable than current robots.
http://cdr.stanford.edu/biomimetics
The robots at LAMI
Lists robotics related activities at EPFL in Switzerland.
http://diwww.epfl.ch/lami/robots/
Space Systems Laboratory, University of Maryland
Consists of understanding how you do work in space; with people, with robots and how the two work together.
http://www.ssl.umd.edu
NASA Automation, Robotics, and Simulation Division
Information on projects by the ARSD, such as robots to assist astronauts during extra-vehicular activity.
http://vesuvius.jsc.nasa.gov/er/
Cognitive Robotics at GMD
German National Research Center robotics group. Research areas include multi-robot cooperation, embodiment of cognitive functions in robots, and robot-environment interaction.
http://www.gmd.de/FIT-KI/CogRob/
USC Robotics Research Lab
Part of the University of Southern California Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems. Research includes multi-robot interaction, coordination, and communication; humanoid robotics; and software development.
http://www-robotics.usc.edu/
CEDRA - Center of Excellence in Design, Robotics and Automation
Robotics Research department of The Sharif University of Technology, Iran.
http://sina.sharif.edu/~cedra
CLAWAR
The European network for CLimbing And WAlking Robots. Site includes newsletter, conference calendar, information on task forces, and publications list.
http://www.clawar.com/home.htm
Vision-based Robot Localization
Research on various statistical localization architectures, with focus on vision based systems done by David Yuen of the University of Auckland Robotics Group. Site includes description, presentations, and bibliography.
http://www.ele.auckland.ac.nz/~cyue001/
Scientific American: Controlling Robots with the Mind
Article detailing research into direct brain control of robotic prosthetic devices, by Miguel A. L. Nicolelis and John K. Chapin
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00065FEA-DAEA-1D80-90FB809EC5880000
University of Texas at Austin Robotics Research Group
A research group focusing on the development of intelligent, modular, and reconfigurable robotics and automation systems.
http://www.robotics.utexas.edu/rrg/
McGill University Mobile Robotics Research
Site includes searchable bibliography, project list and other resources.
http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~dudek/mobile.html
CMU Robotics Institute Manipulation Lab
Research into the fundamental mechanics of manipulation, the modelling of physical processes, and the minimum sensor information needed to accomplish a given manipulation task.
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~mlab/
USC Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems
CRES is the second largest robotics research center in the United States. Brings together more than eight USC robotics research labs.
http://cres.usc.edu/
Robotika.cz
Czech Research group that develops robots for competition using a variety of technologies. Site also provides local robot news and information for other Czech robotics researchers.
http://robotika.cz/
Wisconsin Center for Space Automation and Robotics
WCSAR is a NASA sponsored research center that helps with the commercialization of robotics, automation, and other advanced technologies.
http://wcsar.engr.wisc.edu/
Enrico Piaggio Robotics Group
An interdepartmental Research Center of the University of Pisa devoted to the field robotics and bioengineering. The site includes research activities and researcher profiles.
http://www.piaggio.ccii.unipi.it/
Hovercraft Testbed for Decentralized Control (HOTDEC)
University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign research project consisting of self-propelled and self-controlled hovercraft floating on a airhockey-type table.
http://legend.me.uiuc.edu/hotdec/
Center for Robotics and Manufacturing Systems, University of Kentucky
Research center established in 1986 to provide manufacturing technological assistance for Kentucky's industries. Specializes in applied machine vision and industrial robotics.
http://www.crms.engr.uky.edu/
Sparc-E and robotic research at the University of South Alabama
Dedicated to small autonomous mobile robotics research and robotics use in the curriculum at the University of South Alabama
http://www.cis.usouthal.edu/~mward/
ESG Lego Robotics Seminar
Provides information about the MIT Lego Robotics seminars. Site includes photos from past seminars, project lists, and links to resources.
http://web.mit.edu/esg/proj/ic/www/
UP Mobile Robotics Laboratory
University of the Philippines Electronics and Electrical Engineering Department robotics lab. Primarly concerned with mobile robots as intelligent agents. Research areas included path planning and area mapping.
http://www.upd.edu.ph/~mobotlab/
Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics
The LPR at the University of Massachusetts Amherst conducts research on humanoid robots, grasping and manipulation, legged locomotion, networked sensors and motor services.
http://www-robotics.cs.umass.edu/
GT MARS
DARPA Mobile Autonomous Robot Software (MARS) project. MARS involves research into multi-level learning in hybrid deliberative/reactive mobile robot architecture.
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/aimosaic/robot-lab/MARS/
Machine Intelligence Lab
University of Cambridge Department of Engineering research group. Specializes in computer vision, speech processing, and pattern recognition.
http://svr-www.eng.cam.ac.uk/milab.html
The Robotics Institute of CMU
Established in 1979 to conduct basic and applied research in robotics technologies relevant to industrial and societal tasks. Site includes links to a wide range of specific robots and labs.
http://www.ri.cmu.edu/
Toy Robots Initiative
A research project at Carnegie Mellon University. It aims to commercialize robotics technologies in education, toys and entertainment.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~illah/EDUTOY/
Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center
SPAWAR is a US Navy laboratory that has conducted research on space, land, air, and ocean robots since the 1960s.
http://www.nosc.mil/robots/
BU Intelligent Mechatronics Lab
Boston University group that specializes in medical robotics, structural dynamics, and mobile robot communications.
http://robotics.bu.edu/
Georgia Tech Mobile Robot Lab
The lab's charter is to discover and develop fundamental scientific principles and practices that are applicable to intelligent mobile robot systems.
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/ai/robot-lab/
GMD Autonomous Systems and Robotics
Research topics include cognitive robotics, adaptive systems, cooperation, distributed real-time control, and goal-oriented navigation.
http://www.gmd.de/People/Uwe.Zimmer/Lists/Robotics.at.GMD.html
UM Mobile Robotics Lab
Research areas include mobile robots, obstacle avoidance, robot positioning, and robotic aids for the disabled.
http://www.engin.umich.edu/research/mrl/
LUT Robotics & Automation Department
Luleå University of Technology group specializing in telerobotics and models and algorithms for controlling the motion of robots using geometrical sensors.
http://www.sm.luth.se/csee/ra/
Manchester Robotics
University of Manchester, Department of Computer Science group specializing in medical robotics, mobile robots, walking robots, sociable robotics, and evolutionary robotics.
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/robotics/
University of Maribor Institute of Robotics
Research is divided into three groups: industrial robotics, kinematics and simulations, and power electronics.
http://robin2.r.uni-mb.si/
UMD Autonomous Mobile Robot Lab
University of Maryland group specializing in robots for education and entertainment, goal-based robotics and motion planning.
http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/amrl/amrl.html
Automation and Robotics Research Institute
ARRI is a University of Texas at Arlington research group specializing in design, analysis, simulation (discrete-event and kinematic) and prototype development of automated assembly, process, and material handling systems.
http://arri.uta.edu/
Fraunhofer Autonomous Intelligence Systems
Research areas include software agents, mobile robots, sensor-based navigation, and biomimetic robotics. Site in multiple languages.
http://borneo.gmd.de/index.en.html
IU Hardware Methods Group
Research topics include Kirchoff machines, robot locomotion, and vision. Site also includes information on the Stiquito six legged robot.
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/hmg/
The Harvard Robotics Laboratory
Founded in 1983, HRL does research on the topics of robotic manipulation, choreography of dynamic systems, system identification, ananlog computation, and pattern generation.
http://hrl.harvard.edu/
Mechatronics Research Group
Lancaster University group specializing in mobile robots, construction robotics, control systems, and engineering structures.
http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/engineering/research/mechatronics/
Laval University Robotics Laboratory
Mainly focused on the study of parallel mechanisms and articulated robotic hands.
http://wwwrobot.gmc.ulaval.ca/
Robotics / Autonomous Mechanical Systems
R/AMeS is a Linköping University group. Research topics include model based inertial sensing, teleoperated robotics, mobile robots, and industrial robots.
http://idefix.ikp.liu.se/rames/rames.html
HUT Automation Technology Laboratory
Helsinki University of Technology group specializing in mechatronics, perception, navigation, legged machines, and mobile robot societies.
http://www.automation.hut.fi/
Institute of Robotics Research
University of Dortmund group specializing in multi-robot systems, space robotics, communication structures, and autonomously guided vehicles.
http://www.irf.uni-dortmund.de/
INEEL Remote, Robotic, and Automated Systems Group
Research areas include multi-robot systems, robots performing 10,000 feet or more below sea-level, automation of commercial farming and mining equipment.
http://www.inel.gov/capabilities/robotics/
Intelligent Servosystems Laboratory
Part of the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland. The primary goal of this lab is to advance the state-of-the art in the design and real-time control of smart systems such as robots and automated vehicles.
http://www.isr.umd.edu/Labs/ISL/isl.html
Stanford Robotics Laboratory
Specializes in including manipulation, machine learning, navigation, vision, tactile sensing, and reasoning.
http://robotics.stanford.edu/
UC Berkeley Robotics and Intelligent Machines Lab
University of California at Berkeley. Research topics include medical robotics, adaptation and learning, micromechanical flying insects, micro-robotics, and aerobots.
http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/
LUCS Robotics and Vision Lab
Lund University Cognitive Science group specializing in mobile robots, autonomous learning, neural vision, and intelligence.
http://www.lucs.lu.se/Projects/Robotics.And.Vision/
ISA System Engineering and Automation Department
Research topics include multi-robot systems, surgical robots, telerobotics, computer vision, automation, and remote sensing.
http://www.isa.uma.es/
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory
AIROLAB is part of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. The lab specializes in the software aspects of agent design and implemented of agent architectures are on various robots.
http://www.nd.edu/~airolab/
Oxford Robotics Research Group
Research topics include active vision, visual geometry, pattern analysis, machine learning, sonar imaging, sensor systems, and artificial neural networks.
http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/
Coimbra Institute of Systems and Robotics
Specializes in robotics vision, autonomous systems, multi-sensor fusion, tele-operation, sensor development, motors and drives. Based at the University of Coimbra in Coimbra, Portugal.
http://www.isr.uc.pt/
Purdue Robot Vision Lab
Specialties include 3D object recognition, vision-guided navigation for indoor mobile robots, task and assembly planning.
http://rvl.www.ecn.purdue.edu/RVL/
Centre for Autonomous Systems
Based at Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan in Stockholm. The centre does research in (semi-) autonomous systems including mobile robot systems for manufacturing, domestic and outdoor applications.
http://www.nada.kth.se/cas/
The Intelligent Systems and Robotics Center
Sandia National Lab group specializing in robotic vehicles, collective behavior for controller robot swarms, military robotic systems analysis, and massively parallel robot simulations.
http://www.sandia.gov/isrc/
Intelligent Robotics and Manufacturing Systems Lab
Research topics include multi-agent systems, manufacturing automation, intelligent mobile vehicles, dexterous robotic hands, vision, and sensing. Group is based at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
http://www.ensc.sfu.ca/research/irms/
Stanford Dextrous Manipulation Lab
Standford University lab specializing in telemanipulation with haptic feedback, biomimetic robots, and other tactile and haptic research.
http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/Touch/
ETHZ Institute of Robotics
Specializes in the dynamics of controlled system, mechatronics, robotics, and nanotechnology. IfR is part of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich, Switzerland
http://www.ifr.mavt.ethz.ch/
Bio-Mimetic Control Research Center
Topics include biological control systems, motor system control theory, biologically integrative sensors, and environment adaptive robotic systems. Site in English and Japanese.
http://www.bmc.riken.go.jp/index_en.html
Active Structures Laboratory
Part of the Université Libre de Bruxelles Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Department that specializes in walking machines, gait control, micro robots, pipe robots, active isolation, and vibroacoustics.
http://www.ulb.ac.be/scmero/
Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group
University of Amsterdam group that studies methodologies to create intelligent autonomous systems, which perceive their environment through sensors and use that information to generate intelligent, goal-directed behaviour.
http://www.science.uva.nl/research/ias/
Laboratory for Computational Intelligence
University of British Columbia group specializing in decision-making, planning, reasoning, learning, object recognition, automation, mobile robotics, telerobotics, remote sensing, and geographic information systems.
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/nest/lci/
McGill University Center for Intelligent Machines
Research topics include ambulatory robotics, mobile robotics, artificial perception, haptics, industrial automation, motor vision, and shape analysis.
http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/
Advanced Manufacturing and Mechatronics Centre
Middlesex University group specializing rehabilitation robotics, control systems, robot positioning, and automation of hazardous processes.
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/ammc/ammc.html
Mihailo Pupin Institute Robotics Laboratory
Belgrade, Yugoslavia lab that specializes in robotic systems for contact tasks, intelligent control techniques, and kinematic aspects of robotic system control.
http://www.imp.bg.ac.yu/prez/lab150/robotics.htm
Intelligent Robotics Research Center
TheIRRC is part of the Computer Systems Engineering group of the Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Research topics include robot navigation and machine perception.
http://calvin.eng.monash.edu.au/IRRC/
Center for Intelligent Robotics
CRI is a UNINOVA research group that specializes in sensorial systems, robotic systems, autonomous agents, and social implication of automation.
http://www2.uninova.pt/CRI/cri.html
Autonomous Undersea Systems Institute
AUSI is a not-for-profit research institute focused on promoting commercial applications of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), platforms and sensors.
http://www.ausi.org/
State Research Center of Russia
Russia's Central R & D Institute of Robotics and Technical Cybernetics (CRDI RTC). Research topics include thermomechanical joints, nanotechnology, and adaptive walking robots. Site in English and Russian.
http://www.rtc.neva.ru/
UFL Machine Intelligence Laboratory
University of Florida group specializing in UAVs, Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs), and underwater robotics.
http://www.mil.ufl.edu/
Robotics and Control
University of Delaware group whose research topics include dynamic systems, fabrication of novel robots, rehabilitation robotics, and precision farming machines.
http://www.me.udel.edu/research/Robotics_Control.html
Australian Centre for Field Robotics
University of Sydney group concerned with the application of advanced control, sensing and systems engineering principles to the development of autonomous machines operating in outdoor, variable and hostile environments.
http://www.acfr.usyd.edu.au/
Sydney University Unmanned Aircraft Research
Research topics include Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), mini Air Vehicles (mAVs), Remotely Piloted Vehicles (RPVs), Self Piloted Vehicles (SPVs), and other robotic aircraft.
http://www.aeromech.usyd.edu.au/wwwdocs/uav.html
Computer Vision and Robotics Research Group
University of Alberta group. Research topics include dexterous manipulation, vision-based world modeling for mobile robot exploration, and collective robotic intelligence.
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~vision/
University of Utah Vision and Robotics Group
Topics include biorobotics, mobile robotics, and visual-based navigation of outdoor terrain.
http://www.cs.utah.edu/vision/robot.html
UW-Madison Robotics Lab
Topics include manufacturing systems, actuators, kinematics, dynamics of mechanisms, spatial automation, computer vision, and machine learning.
http://robios8.me.wisc.edu/
Robotics, Perception and Real Time Group
Universitity of Zaragoza, Spain group that specializes in mobile robot localization, map building, navigation, multi-sensor fusion, sensor-based control, and manipulators.
http://www.cps.unizar.es/deps/DIIS/robot/
Robotics Institute: Robot Learning Lab
Offers details regarding Carnegie Mellon University research initiatives and lists publications and related personnel.
http://www.ri.cmu.edu/labs/lab_31.html
NASA JPL Robotics
Performs development, integration, and demonstration of innovative robotics and automation technologies, supporting NASA missions and addressing other problems of national importance.
http://robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/
University of Alberta Robotics Research Group
Specializes in telepresence, multi-agent systems, robotic collectives, tactile sensing, and dextrous manipulation.
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/research/labs/robotics/
UWE Intelligent Autonomous Systems Lab
Researches ways in which autonomous robots - large and small; walking, climbing and flying - can be developed to 'do the right thing at the right time'.
http://www.ias.uwe.ac.uk/
Center for Self-Organizing and Intelligent Systems
Multi-disciplinary research group at Utah State University that focuses on the design, development, and implementation of intelligent, autonomous mechatronic systems.
http://www.csois.usu.edu/
Vanderbilt University Intelligent Robotics Laboratory
Research topics include human-robot teams, human-robot interface, mobile robot navigation, range-free perception-based navigation, sensory egospheres, and vision/image processing systems.
http://eecs.vanderbilt.edu/CIS/IRL/
UNH Robotics Laboratory
Researches the problem of vibration control in robotics through real-time control experiments and simulation.
http://www.ece.unh.edu/robots/rbt_home.htm
UR Vision and Robotics Research
University of Rochester group specializing in appearance based recognition, mobile robots, and the use virtual reality techniques in psychophysics experiments to learn about the human brain and the human visual system.
http://www.cs.rochester.edu/research/robotics.html
UT Intelligent Robotics Research
University of Texas group working on spatial semantic heirarchies, vision recognition systems, manipulators, and mobile robots.
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/qr/robotics/
Robotics and Process Control
A discontinued group at University of Kaiserslautern that specialized in mobile robots, 3D sonar sensing, and 3D scanning.
http://ag-vp-www.informatik.uni-kl.de/
Automatic Control & Systems Engineering
University of Sheffield group specializing in intelligent systems and control, nonlinear systems, and signal processing.
http://www.shef.ac.uk/acse/
Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems
IRIS is a University of Southern California group with a focus on molecular robotics, MEMS, programmable automation, computer vision, and mobile robots.
http://iris.usc.edu/iris.html
University of Bochum Neuroinformatics Institute
Research topics include robotics, computer vision, neural robotics skills, and navigation systems for autonomous mobile robots.
http://www.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ini/PROJECTS/index.html
Artificial Muscle Research Institute
The goal of the institute is to develop, design, fabricate, test, and commercialize electrically and chemically controlled artificial muscles.
http://www.unm.edu/~amri/
VUB Brussels AI Laboratory
Current focus is on the origins of language and robotic agents. Prior research projects include a robotic fish and other mobile robots.
http://arti9.vub.ac.be/
Artificial Perception Group
Research topics include architecture for multi-sensor integration and artificial perception, data fusion, active perception, and hierarchical multi-agents architectures.
http://www.iai.csic.es/users/gpa/
GTRI ATAS Laboratory
Non-profit research group specializing in aerial robotics, entomopters, and advanced flight behaviors.
http://www.gtri.gatech.edu/atas/teams/aerialrobotics.html
Autonomous Systems at GMD
Research groups include Adaptive Systems, Cognitive Robotics, Design Automation for Digital Systems, Innovative Application Design, Responsive Systems and Security Policies for Autonomous Systems.
http://www.gmd.de/People/Uwe.Zimmer/Lists/Robotics.at.GMD
Spy Flies
Describes research on tiny robotic flyers, called Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs), being developed for military and civilian applications.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/spy-fly.htm
CoMRoS - Cooperative Mobile Robot Systems
Group based at the University Stuttgart, Germany that work with cooperative planning and coordination of mobil robots.
http://www.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/ipvr/bv/comros/comros.html
ADVOCATE Project
European IST project whose goal is to design an open, modular and generic software architecture for autonomous robotic systems diagnosis and control.
http://www.advocate-2.com/
CMU TeamBots Multirobot control systems
Lists resources and software that have been developed as part of the CMU research project in multi robot control methods.
http://www.teambots.org/
EOEML Automation Research
Georgia Tech group developing robotics for poultry processing applications including computer vision systems, transport systems, and deboning robots.
http://www.gtri.gatech.edu/eoeml/fpt/area_automation.html
MIT Leg Laboratory
Rocused on legged locomotion and dynamic legged robots. Site includes images, videos, and specifications for walking, running, and hopping robots including Troody the robotic dinosaur.
http://www.ai.mit.edu/
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