Ackermann, Jürgen - Former director of the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics at the German Aerospace Center.
Alessandro Astolfi - Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Centre for Process Systems Engineering, Imperial College, London. Interests in Control Theory.
Al's Robotics - Information on many robots including fighting robots and beam robotics.
Anders' Mindstorms page - Showcases a variety of Ander's Mindstorms projects including a Yatzymatic, a Pinball machine and a cooler. Site also include information on Mindstorms programming and sensors.
Balancing Robot - A biped robot capable of standing up on its own from a fallen position.
B9Creations - Mike Joyce's construction journal describing his progress on a full size replica of the "Lost in Space" B9 Robot and other, homebrew robots.
Borenstein, J. - Research Scientist and Head of the Mobile Robotics Lab within the University of Michigan's Department of Mechanical Engineering. Interests in mobile robots, obstacle avoidance, odometry, positioning, and the GuideCane for the Blind.
Bryan's Robotics Journal - Weblog detailing Bryan's experiences designing and building his robot.
Burgard, Wolfram - Professor of Computer Science at the University of Freiburg and head of the research lab for Autonomous Intelligent Systems. Areas of interest lie in Artificial Intelligence and mobile robots.
Cavin's Robot Projects - Describes several robotics projects including an autonomous mobile robot, a pantograph, and a motion simulator.
Christian Ristow - A builder of robotic kinetic art. Site includes bio, photos, and information on shows.
Corky'z Robotz - A small, remote-controlled robot made from a BASIC Stamp and common parts. Includes instructions, schematic and code listing.
Cox , I. J. - Fellow, NEC Research Institute. 1984-1989 principal investigator, Robotics Principles Dept., AT&T Bell Labs, focussing on issues surrounding autonomous robots. Interests now lie in computer vision.
Cricket the Robot - Information on building an autonomous, walking robot. Includes schematics and code.
David P. Anderson - Director of the SMU Geophysical Imaging Lab. Member of the Dallas Personal Robotics Group. Site includes detailed descriptions and photos of his autonomous robots including nBot, a two-wheeled balancing robot.
Davison, Andrew J. - Advanced Research Fellow in Computer Vision and Robotics at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
Dratrobotics - Photos and descriptions of the author's projects and robots, many of which are Lego Mindstorms-based.
Duckett, T. - Researcher in Autonomous Sensor Systems. Assistant Professor at the Centre for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems at Örebro University in Sweden. Research interests include autonomous robots, machine learning and neural networks, artificial intelligence, navigation systems, and biologically inspired sensor systems.
Dudek , G. - Professor at the School of Computer Science and Centre for Intelligent Machines (CIM). Research areas include navigation, shape, mobile robotics, computer vision, vision, visualization, and recognition.
Four Legged Walker - Walking robot using a BASIC Stamp 2SX and two Mini SSC servo controllers to control 12 servos.
Fox, D. - Assistant Professor at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington. His research interests lie in artificial intelligence and its application to mobile robotics, believing that building systems is an important part of research, especially in robotics.
Frank Nickols - Associate professor in the School of Mechanical and Production Engineering, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Site details a variety of legged and underwater robots.
George - Documents and details the construction of a 3-wheeled, mobile robot platform
Goldin Robotics - Weblog detailing construction of various Lego Mindstorms Robots with descriptions and photos.
Gutmann, S. - Sony Corporation, Tokyo, Japan working in the Digital Creatures Laboratory on navigation for entertainment robots. Research interests include mobile robot self-localization, map-building, object recognition using stereo vision, and robot soccer.
Hardt, Michael - Systems and System Optimization, Department of Computer Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt. Interests include hybrid dynamical systems, control and stability of legged locomotion, nonlinear optimal control, multibody kinematics and dynamics.
Harvey, Inman - Course directory for Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems at the University of Sussex in Brighton, United Kingdom.
Hertzberg, Joachim - Member of the Fraunhofer Institute Autonomous Intelligent Systems (AIS) Robot Control Architectures Team. Areas of interest include robot control architectures, planning, temporal reasoning, and exploration robotics.
HexWorks - A site about Hamlet, an hexapod autonomous robot.
Hirzinger, Gerd - Director, Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, DLR German Aerospace Center.
HomePage of Abhishek Ashokrao Saraf - Mechanical engineering student at IIT Bombay. Research interests include Robotics, Theoretical Solid mechanics.
Hossein Mobahi's Page - Details on Hossein's robot projects including Aryan, a robot designed to assist with research into social interactions between robots and humans.
John's Robotics Page - Information on robotics in general and the author's own robot projects.
JRod's Hobby Site - Photos and information on several Lego Mindstorms robots.
Kaelbling, L. P. - Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science MIT. Also associate director of the MIT AI Lab and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Machine Learning Research.
Kinsubsist - Information on a spider robot and its electronic prey.
Kleeman, L. - Associate Professor, Department Electrical & Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University, Australia.Extensive list of online publications.
Koenig, S. - Assistant Professor, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia. Research centers around techniques for decision making that enable situated agents to act intelligently in their environments, under realistic conditions.
Kuipers, B. - Professor and Chairman, Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin. Research interests include the representation of commonsense and expert knowledge, with an emphasis on the effective use of incomplete knowledge. Recent accomplishments include a robot exploration and mapping strategy based on qualitative recognition of distinctive places.
Littman, M. - Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham.
Mason, Matthew T. - Professor of Computer Science and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University. Conducts research on the mechanics of robots manipulation.
Milios, E. E. - Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, York University, Ontario. Interests include computer vision, mobile robotics, and multiagent robotics.
Mirko Borich's Home Page - Provides a listing of robotics sites, categorised by country and information on his publications.
MIT Robot Pike Project - A robotic fish designed to learn more about the complex fluid mechanics that fish use to propel themselves. Site includes photos and video.
Murray, D. - Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the Laboratory for Computational Intelligence at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada. Interests include stereo vision for mobile robot navigation.
My Robotics Projects - Contains photos, information and detailed construction logs on several projects. Robots include a biped, a hexped and a line follower.
Nehmzow, U. - Leader of the Robotics and Autonomous Systems Research Group at the Department of Computer Science , University of Manchester. Research interests include robot navigation, autonomous competence acquisition, telerobotics, sensor signal processing.
Nourbakhsh , I. R. - Assistant Professor of Robotics, The Robotics Institute, CMU. Interests include: formal representations of perception and action; planning with incomplete information; interleaving planning and execution; mobile robot architectures; real-time visual obstacle avoidance and navigation; robot team communication and cooperation.
PC Controlled Mobile Robot - A robot capable of autonomous and manual control. It can be used for surveillance, as a tour guide or picking hazardous material.
QRIS Robotics - Michiel van Turnhout's QRIS autonomous robot project.
R. Steven Rainwater - Dallas Personal Robotics Group member who builds autonomous mobile robots, operates the robots.net website, edits the dmoz.org robotics category, and maintains the Usenet Robot Competition FAQ.
Röfer, Thomas - Assistant professor doing research on cognitive robotics in the Krieg-Brückner group, Bremen Institute of Safe Systems (BISS), University of Bremen, Germany. Interests include control of autonomous mobile robotics, image processing, and simulation.
RHA robotic team - The Amir Kabir University of Technology's robotic projects including a line tracker robot and a ball gatherer.
Robomarsh78 - Student robotic projects at Semnan University in Iran. Site includes papers, a photo gallery, a list of projects, and information about the members.
Robot Projects - Instructions on converting toys into robots and plans for building robots from scratch.
Robotic Lawnmower - The development of an autonomous robot designed to mow the lawn.
Robots - Photos and descriptions of both hobby and industrial robots built by the author.
Robots built by Bill and Mark Sherman - Photos and descriptions of Bill and Mark's projects and robots: Rollie, Whiskers, Cambot, Balibot and Slither the snake-like robot.
Ryan Chladny's home page - Describes Ryan's work on a large, hydraulic, autonomous, robotic vehicle. Includes related pictures and links.
Simmons, R. - Senior Research Computer Scientist, CMU Robotics Institute, Pittsburgh. Research interests focus on developing reliable, highly autonomous systems (especially mobile robots) that operate in rich, uncertain environments.
The Smile Project - Experiments in human behavior and emotional responses through human-scale robots.
Snake Robots - Features several robotic snakes. Includes photos and video clips.
Sparky's Bot Site - Includes specifications and videos of several walking robots.
Sweet Line Following Robot - Details the construction of a line following robot. Includes video clips of the vehicle.
Terry E. Weymouth - Associate Research Scientist, University of Michigan.
Thrun, S. - Associate Professor of Computer Science and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, presently on sabbatical at Stanford University. Thrun pursues research in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics.
Trammell's unimproved home page - Hudson Trammell is UAV hardware and software developer. His site provides information on his work with the Autopilot UAV flight control project and links to other robotics sites.
V-3 BiPed Robot - Descriptions, pictures, 3D-models and videos of V-3, a two-legged robot.
VCAR - Drive a toy car via the web with realtime streaming video.
von Puttkamer, E. - Head of the AG Robotik und Prozeßrechentechnik, Universität Kaiserslautern, Fachbereich Informatik, Germany.
von Stryk, Oscar - Simulation and Systems Optimization Group (SIM), Department of Computer Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt.
Wesleys Bots - Photos of several robots made from electronic scrap.
Westerdale Autonomous Robot Vision Project - Simon Westerdale's project to create a vision guided robot using adaptive algorithms. Virtual maps are made of the learned environment providing an accurate guidance mechanism.
Zimmer, U. R. - Australian National University, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, and the Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering. Current research interests include spatio-temporal modelling in autonomous systems.
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