Walking Machines Catalogue
- Provide an extensive list of walking machines developed in the robotics research community. You can browse and search for robots as well as submit your own walking robot via a web form.
- http://agrosy.informatik.uni-kl.de/wmc/index.htm

Swarm-Intelligent Systems Research Group at EPFL
- Research on design, modeling, control, and optimization methodologies for self-organized, collectively intelligent, distributed systems with special emphasis on multi-robot platforms, sensor and actuator networks, and intelligent vehicles.
- http://www5.epfl.ch/swis

Robotics at Brown University
- Research topics include environment mapping and path planning.
- http://www.cs.brown.edu/research/areas/robotics.html

NASA Ames Intelligent Robotics Group
- Dedicated to enabling humans and robots to explore and learn about extreme environments, remote locations and uncharted worlds. This group specializes in computer vision, human-robot interaction, mobile manipulation, interactive 3D visualization and robot
- http://ase.arc.nasa.gov/tech/groups/index.php?gid=6&ta=2

Intelligent Robotics Research Centre (IRRC)
- The IRRC at Monash University in Australia conducts research primarily in mobile robot navigation, machine perception and manipulation.
- http://www.ecse.monash.edu.au/centres/irrc/index.php

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.manchester.ac.uk/robotics/

Technische Universität München Robot Vision Group
- Research goal is to make robots more intelligent by teaching them to collect, interpret and use sensor information autonomously.
- http://www.rcs.ei.tum.de/research/index_html

Havard Biorobotics Laboratory
- Harvard University group working in surgical robotics, haptic interfaces, tactile sensing, and biomechanics.
- http://biorobotics.harvard.edu/

University of Delaware Robotics and Control
- Research topics include dynamic systems, fabrication of novel robots, rehabilitation robotics, and precision farming machines.
- http://www.me.udel.edu/Research/Areas/robotics_control.html

Idaho National Lab Adaptive Robotics Program
- 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.inl.gov/adaptiverobotics/

UFL Machine Intelligence Laboratory
- University of Florida group specializing in UAVs, Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs), and underwater robotics.
- http://www.mil.ufl.edu/

Oak Ridge National Laboratory Robotics and Energetic Systems Group
- ORNL Group performs research and development in the fields of robotics, exoskeletons, human amplifying machines, and advanced mobility devices.
- http://www.ornl.gov/sci/engineering_science_technology/roboticsenergetics/

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.cs.cmu.edu/~mlab/

UIC Computer Vision and Robotics Laboratory
- University of Illinois at Chicago group specializing in robot control, haptics, mobile robotics, computer vision.
- http://www.cvrl.cs.uic.edu/

Stanford AI Lab (SAIL)
- 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.
- http://ai.stanford.edu/

Research in the field of robots and cyborgs
- Gert conducts research in the field of robots and cyborgs.
- http://www.gertballing.dk/

Robotic Group DIEES University of CATANIA
- Service Robotic research projects include volcano inspection robots, orange picking robots, climbing robots and microrobots.
- http://www.robotic.diees.unict.it/

Pace University Robotics Lab
- Focuses on building and testing a robot cognitive architecture. Also does research on intelligent agents for network security and intrusion detection.
- http://csis.pace.edu/robotlab/

State Research Center of Russia
- Russia's Central R & D Institute of Robotics and Technical Cybernetics (CRDI RTC). Research topics include robotics and cybernetics for space, air, terrestrial, and anti-terrorism applications.
- http://www.rtc.ru/

Robotics University of Utah
- Topics include agents, hybrid mobile robots, humanoid robots, haptic interfaces, and personal assistive devices
- http://www.cs.utah.edu/research/areas/robotics/

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.
- http://web.mit.edu/towtank/www/Pike/pike.html

The JANUS Project
- The goal of this project is to build an anthropomorphic two-armed robot combined with a multi-camera vision system. The geometry of the system was inspired by the upper part of a human body.
- http://www.ais.fraunhofer.de/AS/janus/pages/janus.html

Fraunhofer Autonomous Intelligence Systems
- Research areas include software agents, mobile robots, sensor-based navigation, and biomimetic robotics. Site in multiple languages.
- http://www.ais.fraunhofer.de/index.en.html

Telepresence Surgery
- Description of research and development of a robotic telepresence system by SRI to perform Minimal Invasive Surgery (MIS).
- http://www.esd.sri.com/med_devel/telepresence.html

JHU Robot And Protein Kinematics Group
- Johns Hopkins University group specializing in kinematic studies of robots, metamorphic robots, and binary robots.
- http://caesar.me.jhu.edu/

University of Zurich AI Lab
- 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, mech
- http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/groups/ailab/

ANU Robotic Systems Lab
- 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-r
- http://www.syseng.anu.edu.au/rsl/

Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue
- Non-profit research center based at the University of Florida. Led by Robin Murphy CRASAR develops robotic technologies to assist search and rescue teams.
- http://crasar.csee.usf.edu/

The Center for Automation and Intelligent Systems Research
- The Case Western Reserve CAISR lab integrates robotics, neural networks, machine vision and other advanced technologies to create flexible, automated, intelligent systems.
- http://dora.cwru.edu/

Centibots: The 100 Robots Project
- DARPA funded project using many small robots for mapping and search missions. Site includes videos and publications describing the collaborative communications architecture used by the Centibots.
- http://www.ai.sri.com/centibots/

Ulm Robotics
- University of Ulm group with interests that include distributed mobile robot control, biometric multi-modal learning, and robocup robotics.
- http://smart.informatik.uni-ulm.de/

Columbia University Robotics Group
- Research interests include construction of geometric and photometric correct 3D models, 3D grasping and simulation, micro-manipulation, visual servoing, visual control, model-based planning.
- http://www.cs.columbia.edu/robotics/

AG Technische Informatik
- Based at the University of Bielefeld. Main research topics include biorobotics, cognitive robotics, sensorimotor control, and parallel computation.
- http://www.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE/techfak/ags/ti/

Institute for Process Control and 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.
- http://wwwipr.ira.uka.de/

Machine Intelligence Laboratory
- 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.
- http://svr-www.eng.cam.ac.uk/

Institute for Automation
- Research group based at the University of Leoben in Austria. Research topics include image processing, kinematics, machine learning, and industrial robotics.
- http://automation.unileoben.ac.at/

HUT - Automation Technology Laboratory
- Specializes in the field of automation technology including robotics, mechatronics and control of industrial processes.
- http://www.hut.fi/HUT/Automation/

Lucy Bipedal Walking Robot
- 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.
- http://lucy.vub.ac.be/

Jouhou System Kougaku Laboratory
- University of Tokyo research lab. Research project include various humanoid robots, soft-spine robots, artificial skin, gel robots, and motion planning.
- http://www.jsk.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/

Institute of Automatic Control Engineering
- Research interests include multi-modal telepresence and teleaction, neuroprosthetics, intelligent humanoid walking, and autonomous mobile robots.
- http://www.lsr.ei.tum.de/index_en.html

SIUE Robotics Page
- Information on autonomous robot research and student robotics projects at the Southern Illinois University of Edwardsville.
- http://roboti.cs.siue.edu/

Center for Distributed Robotics
- Located at the University of Minnesota, research includes the coordination and deployment of multi-robot teams in various applications.
- http://distrob.cs.umn.edu/

Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems
- 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.
- http://www.iris.mavt.ethz.ch/

Charité Surgical Navigation and Robotics Lab
- Engineers, computer scientists, and doctors work together at this lab to develop surgical robotics technologies.
- http://www.charite.de/rv/mkg/srl/

Lund University, Division of Robotics
- Research includes development of simulation tools to improve the performance of industrial and service robotics.
- http://www.robotics.lu.se/

Embedded Systems and Robotics Lab (RESY)
- 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.
- http://ai3.inf.uni-bayreuth.de/

Swarm-bots project
- EU-IST project aimed at the study of new approaches to design and implementation of self-organizing and self-assembling artifacts.
- http://www.swarm-bots.org/

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/projects/leglab/

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/

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

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

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/

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/

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.
- http://aass.oru.se/Research/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.
- http://www.neurotechnology.neu.edu/

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.
- http://www.cs.uni-bonn.de/~rhino/

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.
- http://ic-www.arc.nasa.gov/projects/ai-rovers/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/

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

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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

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/

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/

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

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/

Mechatronic Systems and Robotics Research Group
- University of Surrey lab researching robotic workcells, industrial robotics, sensors, and robot control.
- http://www.surrey.ac.uk/eng/research/mechatronics/robots/msrrfacils.html

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

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/

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/

UT Intelligent Robotics Research
- University of Texas group working on spatial semantic hierarchies, vision recognition systems, manipulators, and mobile robots.
- http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/qr/robotics/

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

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

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/

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/

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/

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

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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