Open Directory - Computers: Robotics: Research
See also: This category in other languages: - University of Orebro, Sweden group specializing in topology-based maps, real-time deliberation, active perceptual anchoring, and fuzzy behavior-based control of mobile manipulators. - Based at the Australian National University. RSL undertakes research projects with real robots working in the real world, in real time. Research topics include co-operative robot systems, mobile robot navigation, active vision, robot learning and human-robot/computer interaction. - 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. - 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. - Research topics include architecture for multi-sensor integration and artificial perception, data fusion, active perception, and hierarchical multi-agents architectures. - 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. - University of Sheffield group specializing in intelligent systems and control, nonlinear systems, and signal processing. - 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. - AUSI is a not-for-profit research institute focused on promoting commercial applications of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), platforms and sensors. - Boston University group that specializes in medical robotics, structural dynamics, and mobile robot communications. - Research on developing a new class of biologically inspired robots that are substantially more compliant and stable than current robots. - Northeastern University Marine Science Center program sponsored by DARPA and ONR. Focuses on autonomous underwater robots. Biomimetic neurotechnology is being used to create Lobster and Lamprey Robots. - Robotics Research department of The Sharif University of Technology, Iran. - Research into the fundamental mechanics of manipulation, the modelling of physical processes, and the minimum sensor information needed to accomplish a given manipulation task. - Research topics include sensor based motion planning, robot locomotion, control theory, medical robotics, and modular robots. - Located at the University of Minnesota, research includes the coordination and deployment of multi-robot teams in various applications. - CRI is a UNINOVA research group that specializes in sensorial systems, robotic systems, autonomous agents, and social implication of automation. - Research center established in 1986 to provide manufacturing technological assistance for Kentucky's industries. Specializes in applied machine vision and industrial robotics. - Multi-disciplinary research group at Utah State University that focuses on the design, development, and implementation of intelligent, autonomous mechatronic systems. - DARPA funded project using many small robots for mapping and search missions. Videos and publications describing the collaborative communications architecture used by the Centibots. - 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. - Engineers, computer scientists, and doctors work together at this lab to develop surgical robotics technologies. - Research interests include construction of geometric and photometric correct 3D models, 3D grasping and simulation, micro-manipulation, visual servoing, visual control, model-based planning. - A commercial research and development lab specializing in software intelligence, network connectivity, robotics, and man-machine interaction. - Research topics include robotic systems, multibody dynamics, robust control, and control design engineering. - Provides information about the MIT Lego Robotics seminars. Photos from past seminars, project lists, and links to resources. - 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 - Based at the University of Köln in Germany. Research-topics include navigation for milling, manipulation of deformable linear objects, and safety strategies for human-robot cooperation. - DARPA Mobile Autonomous Robot Software (MARS) project. MARS involves research into multi-level learning in hybrid deliberative/reactive mobile robot architecture. - The lab's charter is to discover and develop fundamental scientific principles and practices that are applicable to intelligent mobile robot systems. - Helsinki University of Technology group specializing in mechatronics, perception, navigation, legged machines, and mobile robot societies. - Harvard University group working in surgical robotics, haptic interfaces, tactile sensing, and biomechanics. - University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign research project consisting of self-propelled and self-controlled hovercraft floating on a airhockey-type table. - Research efforts are directed towards visual perception of static and dynamic characteristics of the 3-D world (depth, shape, color, motion), object tracking, robot navigation and behaviour modelling. - Research topics include multi-robot systems, surgical robots, telerobotics, computer vision, automation, and remote sensing. - Research topics include Kirchoff machines, robot locomotion, and vision. Site also includes information on the Stiquito six legged robot. - Research areas include multi-robot systems, robots performing 10,000 feet or more below sea-level, automation of commercial farming and mining equipment. - Research group based at the University of Leoben in Austria. Research topics include image processing, kinematics, machine learning, and industrial robotics. - Based at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany, this group performs research into sensor based autonomous robotics, collision-free motion planning, and human-robot cooperation. - IRIS is a University of Southern California group with a focus on molecular robotics, MEMS, programmable automation, computer vision, and mobile robots. - IRIS is a part of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology-Zürich (ETHZ), and focuses on integrating robotics with the research areas of robotic micro-manipulation, hybrid MEMS, biomanipulation and micromechatronic systems. - 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. - The IRRC at Monash University in Australia conducts research primarily in mobile robot navigation, machine perception and manipulation. - 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. - Johns Hopkins University group specializing in kinematic studies of robots, metamorphic robots, and binary robots. - University of Tokyo research lab. Research project include various humanoid robots, soft-spine robots, artificial skin, gel robots, and motion planning. - 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. - Luleå University of Technology group specializing in telerobotics and models and algorithms for controlling the motion of robots using geometrical sensors. - University of British Columbia group specializing in decision-making, planning, reasoning, learning, object recognition, automation, mobile robotics, telerobotics, remote sensing, and geographic information systems. - The LPR at the University of Massachusetts Amherst conducts research on humanoid robots, grasping and manipulation, legged locomotion, networked sensors and motor services. - Mainly focused on the study of parallel mechanisms and articulated robotic hands. - A project of the Multibody Mechanics Research Group at the Free University of Brussels. Lucy was designed for research into the use of pneumatic artificial muscles for locomotion. - Focused on legged locomotion and dynamic legged robots. Images, videos, and specifications for walking, running, and hopping robots including Troody the robotic dinosaur. - A robotic fish designed to learn more about the complex fluid mechanics that fish use to propel themselves. Photos and video. - University of Cambridge Department of Engineering research group. Specializes in computer vision, speech processing, and pattern recognition. - Based at the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering in the United Kingdom. Research topics include interpretation of visual motion, robot guidance, face detection, speech recognition and speech synthesis. - Research topics include ambulatory robotics, mobile robotics, artificial perception, haptics, industrial automation, motor vision, and shape analysis. - Searchable bibliography, project list and other resources. - University of Surrey lab researching robotic workcells, industrial robotics, sensors, and robot control. - Performs development, integration, and demonstration of innovative robotics and automation technologies, supporting NASA missions and addressing other problems of national importance. - This NASA Jet Propulsion Lab group performs research, development, and tests of mobile robots in support of planetary exploration missions and terrestrial applications for NASA and other Government agencies. - Research topics include active vision, visual geometry, pattern analysis, machine learning, sonar imaging, sensor systems, and artificial neural networks. - Focuses on building and testing a robot cognitive architecture. Also does research on intelligent agents for network security and intrusion detection. - Specialties include 3D object recognition, vision-guided navigation for indoor mobile robots, task and assembly planning. - A group based in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Bonn that studies Intelligent Autonomous Systems. Topics include robotic agents, structured reactive controllers, robot learning, planning, perception, and reasoning. - Gert conducts research in the field of robots and cyborgs. - Service Robotic research projects include volcano inspection robots, orange picking robots, climbing robots and microrobots. - Offers details regarding Carnegie Mellon University research initiatives and lists publications and related personnel. - University of Illinois group based at the Beckman Institute. Specializes in robot vision technologies such as curved object recognition and structure from motion algorithms. - A discontinued group at University of Kaiserslautern that specialized in mobile robots, 3D sonar sensing, and 3D scanning. - University of Zaragoza, Spain group that specializes in mobile robot localization, map building, navigation, multi-sensor fusion, sensor-based control, and manipulators. - 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. - Information on autonomous robot research and student robotics projects at the Southern Illinois University of Edwardsville. - October 2002 article detailing research into direct brain control of robotic prosthetic devices, by Miguel A. L. Nicolelis and John K. Chapin - Consists of understanding how you do work in space; with people, with robots and how the two work together. - Describes research on tiny robotic flyers, called Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs), being developed for military and civilian applications. - home for researchers in the Stanford Computer Science Department whose primary research focus is Artificial Intelligence. Specializes in including manipulation, machine learning, navigation, vision, tactile sensing, and reasoning. - Russia's Central Research and Development Institute of Robotics and Technical Cybernetics (CRDI RTC). Research topics include robotics and cybernetics for space, air, terrestrial, and anti-terrorism applications. - EU-IST project aimed at the study of new approaches to design and implementation of self-organizing and self-assembling artifacts. - Research topics include Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), mini Air Vehicles (mAVs), Remotely Piloted Vehicles (RPVs), Self Piloted Vehicles (SPVs), and other robotic aircraft. - The Case Western Reserve CAISR lab integrates robotics, neural networks, machine vision and other advanced technologies to create flexible, automated, intelligent systems. - Founded in 1983, HRL does research on the topics of robotic manipulation, choreography of dynamic systems, system identification, ananlog computation, and pattern generation. - Established in 1979 to conduct basic and applied research in robotics technologies relevant to industrial and societal tasks. Links to a range of specific robots and labs. - Lists robotics related activities at EPFL in Switzerland. - A research project at Carnegie Mellon University. It aims to commercialize robotics technologies in education, toys and entertainment. - University of California at Berkeley. Research topics include medical robotics, adaptation and learning, micromechanical flying insects, micro-robotics, and aerobots. - University of Florida group specializing in UAVs, Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs), and underwater robotics. - University of Illinois at Chicago group specializing in robot control, haptics, mobile robotics, computer vision. - Research areas include mobile robots, obstacle avoidance, robot positioning, and robotic aids for the disabled. - University of Maryland group specializing in robots for education and entertainment, goal-based robotics and motion planning. - 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. - CRES is the second largest robotics research center in the United States. Brings together more than eight USC robotics research labs. - 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. - University of Texas group working on spatial semantic hierarchies, vision recognition systems, manipulators, and mobile robots. - 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'. - Research is divided into three groups: industrial robotics, kinematics and simulations, and power electronics. - A research group focusing on the development of intelligent, modular, and reconfigurable robotics and automation systems. - Works on biologically inspired robotics, particularly the principle of embodied intelligence. The lab is transdisciplinary and includes researchers in the fields of computer science, mathematics, physics, biology, ethology, neurobiology, psychology, mechanical and electronics. - Current focus is on the origins of language and robotic agents. Prior research projects include a robotic fish and other mobile robots. - Research topics include human-robot teams, human-robot interface, mobile robot navigation, range-free perception-based navigation, sensory egospheres, and vision/image processing systems. - Research on various statistical localization architectures, with focus on vision based systems done by David Yuen of the University of Auckland Robotics Group. Description, presentations, and bibliography. - Provide a list of walking machines developed in the robotics research community. Search for robots as well as submit walking robot via a web form.
