AASS Mobile Robotics Lab - University of Orebro, Sweden group specializing in topology-based maps, real-time deliberation, active perceptual anchoring, and fuzzy behavior-based control of mobile manipulators.
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.
Advanced Manufacturing and Mechatronics Centre - Middlesex University group specializing rehabilitation robotics, control systems, robot positioning, and automation of hazardous processes.
ADVOCATE Project - European IST project whose goal is to design an open, modular and generic software architecture for autonomous robotic systems diagnosis and control.
ANU Robotic Systems Lab - Australian National University group that specializes in co-operative robot systems, mobile robot navigation, active vision, robot learning and human-robot/computer interaction.
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.
Artificial Muscle Research Institute - The goal of the institute is to develop, design, fabricate, test, and commercialize electrically and chemically controlled artificial muscles.
Artificial Perception Group - Research topics include architecture for multi-sensor integration and artificial perception, data fusion, active perception, and hierarchical multi-agents architectures.
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.
Automatic Control & Systems Engineering - University of Sheffield group specializing in intelligent systems and control, nonlinear systems, and signal processing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Biomimetic Underwater Robot Program - 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.
BU Intelligent Mechatronics Lab - Boston University group that specializes in medical robotics, structural dynamics, and mobile robot communications.
Caltech Robotics Group - Research topics include sensor based motion planning, robot locomotion, control theory, medical robotics, and modular robots.
Center for Intelligent Robotics - CRI is a UNINOVA research group that specializes in sensorial systems, robotic systems, autonomous agents, and social implication of automation.
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.
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.
CESAR Robotics - Part of the Center for Engineering and Science Advanced Research at Oak Ridge Laboratory. Specializes in multi-robot learning, cooperative, distributed heterogeneous sensing, mapping, path planning.
CLAWAR - The European network for CLimbing And WAlking Robots. Site includes newsletter, conference calendar, information on task forces, and publications list.
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.
CMU Sensor Based Planning Lab - Specializes in topological simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) techniques as well as the development of highly-articulated snake robots, painting robots, and demining robots.
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.
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.
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.
Columbia University Robotics Group - Projects include automous urban navigation and exploration and integration of vision, force and tactile sensing for grasping.
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.
Control of a Robot Hand using Tactile Sensors - Master Thesis by Samuel Crinier titled "Behavior-Based Control of a Robot Hand using Tactile Sensors". Describes Obelix, a mobile robot provided with grasping capabilities. Includes English and Swedish abstract and the full paper in PDF format.
Control Systems Engineering Group - Research areas include intelligent control and decision making; distributed, hierarchical, and hybrid systems and control; and fault tolerant control. Based at Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands.
Cornell Robotics and Vision Laboratory - Research topics include computer vision, distributed manipulation, and micro-electro mechanical systems (MEMS). Based at the Computer Science department of Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States.
CSIRO Mining Automation - Research into the issues relating to automation of mining. Projects include automated digital terrain mapping, undersea exploration and mining, and rapid roadway development. Based in Australia.
CSIRO Mining Automation - Mining automation and robotics research group based at The Queensland Centre for Advanced Technologies in Australia.
Cybernet Systems Corporation - A commercial research and development lab specializing in software intelligence, network connectivity, robotics, and man-machine interaction.
Delft Bio-robotics Laboratory - Research into biologically inspired bipedal walking robots and robotic prosthetics. Based at the Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands.
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.
EOEML Automation Research - Georgia Tech group developing robotics for poultry processing applications including computer vision systems, transport systems, and deboning robots.
EPFL Autonomous Systems Lab - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology research group specializing in autonomous control of robots in uncertain and highly dynamic environments.
ESG Lego Robotics Seminar - Provides information about the MIT Lego Robotics seminars. Site includes photos from past seminars, project lists, and links to resources.
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
FIU Robotics and Automation Laboratory - Florida International University research group specializing in teleoperation, telesensation, mechatronics, and fault-tolerant systems.
Fraunhofer Autonomous Intelligence Systems - Research areas include software agents, mobile robots, sensor-based navigation, and biomimetic robotics. Site in multiple languages.
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.
GMD Autonomous Systems and Robotics - Research topics include cognitive robotics, adaptive systems, cooperation, distributed real-time control, and goal-oriented navigation.
GT MARS - DARPA Mobile Autonomous Robot Software (MARS) project. MARS involves research into multi-level learning in hybrid deliberative/reactive mobile robot architecture.
GTRI ATAS Laboratory - Non-profit research group specializing in aerial robotics, entomopters, and advanced flight behaviors.
Harvard Robotics Laboratory - Specializes in computational vision, neural networks, tactile sensing, haptic interfaces, motion control and VLSI systems.
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.
HUT Automation Technology Laboratory - Helsinki University of Technology group specializing in mechatronics, perception, navigation, legged machines, and mobile robot societies.
IAF Autonomous Robotic Systems - Group based at the University of Applied Sciences Ravensburg-Weingarten, Institute for Applied Research that specializing in mechatronics and telematics.
ICS Computer Vision and Robotics Laboratory - 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.
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.
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.
Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics - German Aerospace Center group specializing in machine vision, telerobotics, mobile robots, and medical robotics.
Institute of Robotics Research - University of Dortmund group specializing in multi-robot systems, space robotics, communication structures, and autonomously guide vehicles.
Institute of Robotics Research - University of Dortmund group that researches automation, multi-robot systems, space robotics, and autonomously guided vehicles.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Iran Robotics - Part of the Tomorrow Development Association (TDA), a group that assists national technology research in Iran. Site will archive news, articles, photos, and other robotics information.
IU System Design Methods Laboratory - Indiana University group specializing in formal methods for hardware and robotics design including navigation and situated artificial intelligence.
JHU Robot Kinematics Group - Johns Hopkins University group specializing in kinematic studies of robots, metamorphic robots, and binary robots.
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.
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.
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.
LUCS Robotics and Vision Lab - Lund University Cognitive Science group specializing in mobile robots, autonomous learning, neural vision, and intelligence.
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.
Machine Intelligence Lab - University of Cambridge Department of Engineering research group. Specializes in computer vision, speech processing, and pattern recognition.
Manchester Robotics - University of Manchester, Department of Computer Science group specializing in medical robotics, mobile robots, walking robots, sociable robotics, and evolutionary robotics.
McGill University Center for Intelligent Machines - Research topics include ambulatory robotics, mobile robotics, artificial perception, haptics, industrial automation, motor vision, and shape analysis.
Mechatronics Research Group - Lancaster University group specializing in mobile robots, construction robotics, control systems, and engineering structures.
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.
Nanomedicine Art Gallery - Foresight Institute's art gallery shows artists renderings of nano-scale medical robots.
NASA Advanced Autonomy for Rovers Project - This NASA group aims to advance the state of the art in ground operations and onboard autonomy for flight rovers by investigating the complex problems of autonomy in adverse environments.
NASA JPL Robotics - Performs development, integration, and demonstration of innovative robotics and automation technologies, supporting NASA missions and addressing other problems of national importance.
NASA Robotic Vehicles Group - 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.
NASA Space Telerobotics Program - NASA group responsible for robotics and planetary rover research for the agency prior to 1997.
NASA/JPS Distributed Rovers Project - Project investigates the complex challenges surrounding distributed rovers, small basic agents interoperating to create emergent intelligent behaviour. Such systems can cope well in adverse situations, being composed of relatively cheap robotic devices working in unison, capable of recovering from partial failure.
Neuroprosthesis Research Organization - Provides science news related to brain computer interaction, brain implants, brain control, neural prosthesis, bionic organs, biomorphic robot helpers, humanoids, androids, and cyborgs.
Oxford Robotics Research Group - Research topics include active vision, visual geometry, pattern analysis, machine learning, sonar imaging, sensor systems, and artificial neural networks.
Purdue Robot Vision Lab - Specialties include 3D object recognition, vision-guided navigation for indoor mobile robots, task and assembly planning.
RHINO-Project - 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.
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.
Robotics and Computer Vision Laboratory - University of Illinois group based at the Beckman Institute. Specializes in robot vision technologies such as curved object recognition and structure from motion algorithms.
Robotics and Control - University of Delaware group whose research topics include dynamic systems, fabrication of novel robots, rehabilitation robotics, and precision farming machines.
Robotics and Process Control - A discontinued group at University of Kaiserslautern that specialized in mobile robots, 3D sonar sensing, and 3D scanning.
The Robotics Institute - The robotics research and graduate education program at Carnegie Mellon University.
Robotics Institute: Robot Learning Lab - Offers details regarding Carnegie Mellon University research initiatives and lists publications and related personnel.
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.
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.
The robots at LAMI - Lists robotics related activities at EPFL in Switzerland.
Sci-Art: Bio-Robotic Choreography Project - Research involving the development of an intelligent insect-like robot large enough to support a human. The partnership between human and robot bodies will explore alternate kinds of choreography, culminating in a series of performances.
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.
Spy Flies - Describes research on tiny robotic flyers, called Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs), being developed for military and civilian applications.
Stanford Dextrous Manipulation Lab - Standford University lab specializing in telemanipulation with haptic feedback, biomimetic robots, and other tactile and haptic research.
Stanford Robotics Laboratory - Specializes in including manipulation, machine learning, navigation, vision, tactile sensing, and reasoning.
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.
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.
Taygeta Scientific Research - Projects include autonomous walkers, Palm-Pilot robots, motion and path planning, and motor control. Site also includes resources on Forth programming and Kalman filters.
Telepresence Surgery - Description of research and development of a robotic telepresence system by SRI to perform Minimal Invasive Surgery (MIS).
Toy Robots Initiative - A research project at Carnegie Mellon University. It aims to commercialize robotics technologies in education, toys and entertainment.
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.
UM Mobile Robotics Lab - Research areas include mobile robots, obstacle avoidance, robot positioning, and robotic aids for the disabled.
UMD Autonomous Mobile Robot Lab - University of Maryland group specializing in robots for education and entertainment, goal-based robotics and motion planning.
UNH Robotics Laboratory - Researches the problem of vibration control in robotics through real-time control experiments and simulation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
UT Intelligent Robotics Research - University of Texas group working on spatial semantic heirarchies, vision recognition systems, manipulators, and mobile robots.
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'.
UW-Madison Robotics Lab - Topics include manufacturing systems, actuators, kinematics, dynamics of mechanisms, spatial automation, computer vision, and machine learning.
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.
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.
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.
