Adept MobileRobots - Supplies robotic platforms for nearly all land, air, and sea-based research needs. All ground robots include Pioneer SDK. In addition, the Pioneer family of robots are supported in Player/Stage, ROS, MSRS, and most other interfaces. Versatile Pioneer-family and Seekur-family robots offer many accessories and software tools.
Adept Technology, Inc. - Provider of intelligent vision-guided robotics systems and services. Founded in 1983, Adept Technology is the largest U.S.-based manufacturer of industrial robots. Adept intelligent automation product lines include industrial robots, configurable linear modules, machine controllers for robot mechanisms and other flexible automation equipment, machine vision, and systems and applications software. Adept provides specialized, cost-effective robotics systems and services to high-growth markets including Packaged Goods, Life Sciences, Disk Drive/Electronics and Semiconductor/Solar; as well as to traditional industrial markets including machine tool automation and automotive components.
Android World - Devoted to androids and android projects.
Arrick Robotics - PC-baced motion control products including stepper motor control systems, linear and rotary positioning tables, robotic workcells, and automation accessories such as pulley reducers and grippers.
Barrett Technology, Inc. - Industrial and commercial applications that can benefit from versatile and people-compatible robotic manipulators enabling the broader adoption of robots in industry and commerce.
BattleBots - BattleBots is the emerging sport of live robotic combat. BattleBots contestants design and build radio controlled robots weighing up to 488 lbs. that employ an array of destructive weaponry such as hammers, saws, and spikes.
Boston University: Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems (CNS) and the Center for Adaptive Systems (CAS) - CNS provides advanced training and research experience for graduate students interested in the neural and computational principles, mechanisms, and architectures that underlie human and animal behavior, and the application of neural network architectures to the solution of outstanding technological problems. CAS is an interdisciplinary research and training center whose interests intersect the areas of biology, computer science, engineering, mathematics, and psychology where formal investigations suggest new designs for computer vision, adaptive pattern recognition machines, autonomous robots, and massively parallel computers, thereby integrating basic science with the design of novel technologies.
Boston Dynamics - A leading provider of human simulation software and services. Boston Dynamics was as a spin-off from the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, where the founders developed advanced robotic systems. The robotics work done at MIT was adapted at Boston Dynamics to apply it to lifelike human animation and analysis. BDI products are used worldwide for military applications, driving simulators, mission planning systems, urban planning, and architectural walk-throughs.
Robots include:
Case Western University Biorobotics Lab - Interdisciplinary project at Case Western Reserve University whose goal is to advance the fields of robotics using insights gained through the study of biological mechanisms.
Communist Robot - Iinformation on robots and other up-coming technologies.
Cool Robots - Provides you with all the coolest robotics projects in the world: humanoid robots, military robots, medical robots, industrial robots, and cool future robots.
Cyborg Cabaret - Explores human, robot, and cyborg relationships in a variety show format featuring everything from cutting edge metal machines to cardboard-suited meat bags. Expect tear-jerking vignettes, frequent non-sequiters, and lots of humor through avant art-meets-science theater.
Deep Sea Engineering - Started as a small engineering company in 1982, has over 600 sophisticated ROV systems in the field, world wide. Able to accommodate all of your ROV needs from sales to service, parts to product instruction, initial advice to installation, and service of the most sophisticated ROV systems in the world.
Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA): Maximum Mobility and Manipulation Program - Seeks to create a significantly improved scientific framework for the rapid design and fabrication of robot systems and greatly enhance robot mobility and manipulation in natural environments. The program covers scientific advancement across four tracks: design tools, fabrication methodologies, control methods, and technology demonstration prototypes.
Draper Laboratory - Expertise includes the areas of guidance, navigation, and control systems; fault-tolerant computing; advanced algorithms and software solutions; modeling and simulation; and MEMS and multichip module technology.
Engineering Services - Robotics and automation research, design, development and manufacturing.
Fanuc Robotics - A leading supplier of robotic automation in North and South America.
Field Robotics Center - Part of the Robotics Institute within the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Field robotics is the use of mobile robots in field environments such as work sites and natural terrain, where the robots must safeguard themselves while performing non-repetitive tasks and objective sensing as well as self-navigation in random or dynamic environments.
FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) - A national engineering contest which immerses high school students in the exciting world of engineering. In six intense weeks, students and engineers work together to brainstorm, design, construct and test their "champion robot.
Fukuda and Vachkov Laboratory: Nagoya University - Cellular Robotic System (CEBOT), Microrobotic System and Micromechatronics, Nanotechnology, Bio-Micro Manipulation System, Telesurgery System for Intravascular Neurosurgery, Machine Learning of Intelligent Robotic System, Emotional Robot Engineering, and more.
GE: Remote Visual Inspection - Offers a comprehensive selection of remote visual inspection (RVI) equipment – from basic borescopes and fiberscope to measurement capable digital video borescopes, and pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) camera systems and robotic crawler systems.
Golem Project - Automatic design and manufacture of robotic lifeforms.
GoRobotics - Source for amateur robotics needs providing quality links, books, projects, resources, and more.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) - The RAS has approximately 7000 members worldwide, who come from universities, government, medicine, transportation, electric utilities, and R&D companies ranging from multinational giants to individual entrepeneurs. Also see publications, including:
Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics - Design of mechatronic systems is the main goal of the institute. Examples are new lightweight robots and advanced vehicle systems with active components. Such projects integrate the core skills in dynamic system modelling and simulation, design of robust control algorithms and multibody formalisms, development of highly integrated robot sensors and actuators and remote control of semi-autonomous systems.
International Foundation of Robotics Research (IFRR) - Promotes the development of robotics with emphasis on its potential role to benefit humans. The Foundation was established in 1986 following the success of a series of pioneering symposia.
iRobot - A leading provider of robot products and to supply developers with an industry-standard platform to create valuable robotic applications. Includes the real World Interface line of robots and accessories.
JPL Robotics - Development of innovative robotics and automation technologies supporting NASA missions. Researchers work toward enabling more efficient, lower cost missions dedicated to planetary surface and solar system exploration, Earth observations from space, astrophysical experiments in space and on the Moon, and the extension of human capabilities in space.
Laboratory for Neuroengineering, Georgia Tech - Wet-lab neurobiology, electronics, neuroimaging, modeling, and multi-dimensional data analysis. Explores neural processes such as motor control, learning, information processing, response to physical trauma, and the role of complex dynamics in the nervous system. Designs software, mechanical systems and electronic systems to interact with and interface to neural tissue, creating hybrid systems consisting of living and engineered components.
LoganBot - The Lenox High School Bot Club presents Logan, a super heavyweight battle robot with a unique design and weapons.
Machinebrain.com - Robot links and robotics information. Find links to artificial intelligence, androids, wearable computers, battlebots, robot wars, robocup, clubs, and soccer. Get the latest news on smart machines.
Marilyn Monrobot Labs - Heather Knight is currently conducting her doctoral research at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute and running Marilyn Monrobot Labs in NYC, which creates socially intelligent robot performances and sensor-based electronic art. Founder of the Robot Film Festival and Cyborg Cabaret, Heather was on the 2011 Forbes List for 30 under 30 in Science.
Marvin Minsky - Marvin Minsky has made many contributions to AI, cognitive psychology, mathematics, computational linguistics, robotics, and optics. In recent years he has worked chiefly on imparting to machines the human capacity for commonsense reasoning. His conception of human intellectual structure and function is presented in The Society of Mind (1987), which is also the title of the course he teaches at MIT.
MDA - MDA is the world leader in space robotics and a leading supplier of satellite information missions and a world-renowned supplier of satellite payload systems and sub-systems.
MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab - The Massachsetts Institute of Technology (MIT) conducts research in many aspects of intelligence. Its aims are two-fold: to understand human intelligence at all levels, including reasoning, perception, language, development, learning, and social levels, and to build useful artifacts based on intelligence. Robotics plays an important role in MIT's AI research.
MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab: Mobot Group - The MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory performs a broad range of research on mobile robots and autonomous systems. Efforts range from basic research on topics such as vision or natural language to the development of key supporting technologies, such as low cost hardware and powerful software development environments.
MIT Leg Laboratory - Researchers at the Leg Laboratory have built a series of legged robots, including one-legged hoppers, bipedal runners, bipedal walkers, a quadruped, and two kangaroo-like robots. Taken collectively, these machines traverse simple paths, run with several different gaits, run fast (13 mph), walk over flat ground and rolling terrain, jump over obstacles, climb a simplified stairway, and perform rudimentary gymnastic maneuvers.
Robot - Wikipedia article: A robot is a mechanical intelligent agent which can perform tasks on its own, or with guidance. In practice a robot is usually an electro-mechanical machine which is guided by computer and electronic programming.
Also see Robotics.
Robot Books.com - Selects, reviews, recommends, and sells robot books. Also provides excellent selection of links to robot resources, robot magazine, robot news, robot newsletter.
Robot Cafe - Robotics news, tutorials, and discussion forums. Links to robot kits, competitions, companies, hobby clubs, hardware, software, universities and movies. Learn how to build robots for competitions or just for fun. Discover more about artificial intelligence, electronics, and mechanics. Read about mobile robots, educational toys, walking robots, space robotics, and underwater robots. Enter competitions like Robot Wars, Micromouse, Robot Sumo, and RoboCup.
Robot Film Festival -
This is not your ordinary film festival. The crowning feature of Saturday night is a black tie red carpet Botskers award ceremony (think Robot Oscars). It is here that films will be in the running for a coveted ‘botsker’ awards – 3D printed robot statuettes whose titles have been robotically milled carved out by a robot. Prepare yourselves for a dazzling 100-foot red carpet, specially concocted cocktails and live human and machine performances.
Robot Resources - Extensive robots and robotics links directory broken into the following categories:
RoboMenu -
Robot gallery for builders to show their creations.
Robot Science & Technology - Magazine covering 21st century robotics technology, bringing in-depth reports on real robots and hands-on adventures with home, classroom, and sport robotics.
Robotic and Automation Video Clips - IEEEInternational Conference on Robotics and Automation clips from video proceedings for the years 1999-2000.
Robotic Industries Association (RIA)/Robotics Online - North America's only trade association focused exclusively on robotics. Members include leading industrial robot manufacturers and robotic peripheral suppliers, system integrators, end users of robots, and robotic technology developers.
Robotics Alliance Project - NASA project whose mission is to create a human, technical, and programmatic resource of robotics capabilities to enable the implementation of future robotic space exploration missions.
Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) -
A professional society of the IEEE, world's largest professional association for the advancement of technology. Like all other 37 IEEE societies, the Robotics and Automation society provides publications, conferences, community networking, and many other benefits to members within our specialty areas.
Robotics and Mechatronics Network -
Takes a strategic role in co-ordinating the fragmented parties within the UK robotics and mechatronics community and beyond, to raise the profile of global activities and facilitate knowledge sharing.
Robotics Group Inc. (RGi) - Specializes in Microchip PIC and Atmel AVR designs. We will develop the schematics, PWB and write the firmware and software in VB.net or TCL. RGi will also build your prototypes and deliver a complete system to you.
Robotics Online - Features, news, and opinion presented by the Robotic Industries Association.
Roboto Bibok - Guide to learning about real robots.
Robots.net - News on personal and industrial robotics and robot competitions.
Robots Life - Content and resources to help you catch up with the "robot era ".
Rover Science: Washington University - Involved in the several aspects of Mars rover technology including ground data systems and operations planning.
San Francisco Robotics Society of America (SFRSA) - Exchanges information about robotics in order to stimulate education in the sciences, create new businesses, and to promote the enjoyment of robotics as a hobby.
Shadow Robot Company - Building a useful general-purpose robot, a robot that can reach the cupboards, turn the taps, get up the stairs.
Skilligent Robot Vision - A software component which implements powerful object recognition and object tracking algorithms. The system is specifically designed for robotics applications including visual object recognition and tracking, image stabilization, visual-based servoing, human-to-machine interaction and visual localization.
Sony: AIBO Entertainment Robot - Autonomous, sensitive to his environment, and able to learn and mature like a living creature.
Stanford Robotics Laboratory - Research is conducted on a number of core topics, including manipulation, machine learning, navigation, vision, tactile sensing, and reasoning. The goals of this research are to make robots both autonomous and dexterous, to increase the self-sufficiency of existing robots, and to enable robots to accomplish very delicate tasks.
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