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Selected Robotics Resources on the Internet

Listed below is a compilation of space robotics-related and general purpose robotics-related resources (web sites, ftp sites, gopher sites, newsgroups, etc.) available on the Internet. Although not 100 percent comprehensive (no list of this type ever is complete), it does provide a represenative sample of materials being offered on the 'net. If you have any additions or corrections to the list, please email the site webmaster and let us know. The list is divided into the following categories:

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United States Government Programs
University Programs - North America
University Programs - International

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Related Space Robotics Projects
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Companies and Institutes
"Frequently Asked Questions" Lists
Hobby Groups and Clubs
Indicies
International Programs
Kits and Home Builts
Newsgroups
Organizations
Periodicals and Journals
Books and Educational Materials
Entertainment Robotics

Note: indicates the organization is developing technologies for space applications of robotics





United States Government Programs:

Air Force Robotics and Automation Center of Excellence (RACE) - inserting robotics and automation technologies into Air Force industrial processes
Air Force Institute of Technology Robotics and Automation Applications Group (RAAG) - devoted to the development and application of robotic and telerobotic technologies to Air Force processes
ARPA Real Time Planning and Control Program
Idaho National Engineering Lab (INEL) Robotics Program - conducting research and development in remote inspection and remote systems and robotics technology
Los Alamos National Laboratories BEAM Robotics
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory
National Science Foundation Computer and Information Science and Engineering program - NSF robotics grant program description
Naval Command Control and Ocean Surveillance Center (NCCOSC) NRaD Robotics Page - NRaD and its predecessor organizations have been involved in various aspects of robotics since the early 1960's, including Autonomous Land Robots, Unmanned Ground Vehicles, Unmanned Air Vehicles, Unmanned Undersea Vehicles, and Telepresence/Virtual Reality.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory Sandia National Laboratories


University Programs - North America:

Boston University Robotics and Control - both theoretical and applied issues in the control of mechanical systems
Brown University AI Page
Bucknell University Robotics Laboratory - robotics force sensors, control algorithms for flexible manipulators, legged vehicles, shape-memory-alloy servomechanisms, and video-image based dimensioning of optical lenses
California Polytechnic State University Robotics Laboratory
California Institute of Technolgy Robotics Group
Carnegie Mellon University Case Western Reserve University Columbia University Robotics Lab.
Colorado State University Walking Machine Team.
Cornell University Robotics and Vision Laboratory - machine vision, navigation and tracking, robotic manipulation, distributed and cooperative robotics, microelectromechanical systems, planning and control, uncertainty and error, and geometric algorithms
Florida International University Robotics and Automation Laboratory
Georgia Institute of Technology Harvard University Robotics Lab - computational vision, neural networks, tactile sensing, motion control and VLSI systems
Indiana University Robotics Page
Iowa State University Ivy Tech State College Manufacturing Technology
Johns Hopkins University Robotics Program - research on metamorphic robots
Laval University Computer Vision and Systems Lab
Massachusetts Institute of Technology McGill University Center for Intelligent Machines
Naval Postgraduate School Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
New Mexico Tech Robotics Information Page
Northwestern University Notre Dame University Vision-Based Robotics Using Estimation
Queen's University Robotics and Perception Lab
Ryerson University Network-Centric Applied Research Team (N-CART) - specializing in internet-controlled robots
Simon Fraser University Stanford University UCLA Commotion Laboratory (Mobile Robotics)
Univerity of Tennessee Knoxville Computer Vision & Robotics Research Lab
University of Alberta University of British Columbia Laboratory for Computational Intelligence
University of California Berkeley University of Cinncinati Center for Robotics Research
University of Delaware University of Florida University of Guelph Natural Selection Research Group
University of Hawaii Autonomous Systems Laboratory - improving performance of industrial automation and using intelligent machines in hostile environments such as the deep ocean
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University of Maryland University of Massachusetts Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics - new technologies to control robots in uncertain and unstructured environments
University of Michigan University of Minnesota automated robot guidance page
University of New Hampshire Robotics Laboratory - application of fast associative memories and other neural network learning techniques to problems in control, pattern recognition, and signal processing
University of Pennsylvania GRASP Lab
University of Rochester Robotics Lab
University of South Carolina Mobile Robotics Page
University of Southern California University of Southwestern Louisiana Intelligent Robotics Systems Laboratory - robotics and automation, CIM, Apparel-CIM and intelligent machines
University of Texas Intelligent Robotics Research
University of Texas at Arlington Automation and Robotics Research Institute - manufacturing assistance and automation research, education and technology transfer
University of Texas at Austin Robotics Research Laboratory
University of Toronto University of Utah University of Virginia University of Washington University of Wisconsin Robotics Lab Home Page
Utah State University Center for Intelligent Systems
Vanderbilt University Intelligent Robotics Laboratory
Virginia Tech
Washington State University SAE Robotics Page
Yale Vision and Robotics group


University Programs - International:

Australian National University Automated Systems Laboratory
Cambridge University Speech, Vision and Robotics Group
Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Luft- und Raumfahrt Institute of Robotics and System Dynamics
Edinburgh University Dept of AI Mobile Robots Group
Free University of Brussels AI Lab
Helsinki University of Technology Automation Technology Laboratory
Heriot-Watt University Advanced Control of Manipulators
Institute for Ship's Automation Robotics Departmentin Genoa, Italy
Israel Institute of Technology Robotics Labin the Department of Mechanical Engineering
Linköping Institute of Technology Robotics / Autonomous Mechanical Systems
Lund University Cognitive Science
Micro-electronics and Robotics Laboratory of Montpellier (LIRMM) Robotics Department
Middlesex University Advanced Manufacturing and Mechatronics Centre
Monash University Intelligent Robotics Research Center
Multimedia University of Malaysia facility for Information Technology - including a cool Java-bot and other applets
New University of Lisbon CRI - Center for Intelligent Robotics
Oxford University Robotics Research Group
Politecnico di Milano Department of Electronics and Information Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Project (PM-AI&R Project)
Portugal Institute of Systems and Robotics Home Page
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-Zurich) Institute of Robotics
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Mobile Robot Khepera and Simulator
Technical University of Vienna Institute of Flexible Automation
Universit Libre de Bruxelles Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Department
Universitá di Genova LIRA-Lab: Laboratory for Integrated Advanced Robotics
University College London AI, Cognitive Science and Robotics Page
University of Amsterdam Robotics and Neurocomputing
Univeristy of Ballarat Telerobotics lab
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Institute for Manufacturing Automation and Production Systems
University of Kaiserslautern Autonomous Mobile Robots Research Group
University of Kent at Canterbury Mobile Robots Research Group
University of Luleâ Department of Robotics & Automation
University of Manchester Robotics lab
University of Maribor Laboratory for Robotics
University of Karlsruhe Institute for Real-Time Computer Systems & Robotics (IPR)
University of Reading Robotics Research Group - Netrolab
University of Stuttgart - COMROS (large systems, simulation)
University of Stuttgart - Autolife (small systems)
University of Surrey The Mechatronic Systems and Robotics Research Group
University of Sussex COGS page
University of Sydney Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering
University of Tokyo Yoshimoto and Nakamura Laboratory, Department of Mechano-Informatics
University of Western Australia University of Wollongong Centre for Industrial Automation Research within the School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering
University of Zurich Artificial Intelligence / Autonomous Agents Laboratory
University of Zurich Robotics Related Services on the Internet
University of the West of England Bristol Intelligent Autonomous Systems Engineering Laboratory
Waseda University Humanoid Project - develop an anthropomorphic robot comprising sensing, recognition, expression and motion sub-systems to enable robots and humans to build common mental and physical spaces



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