Robotics

News and interviews, and information on research and events.

Giant robots, atomic weapons, Brotron death rays, and other atomic age sculpture by artist Greg Brotherton

An experimental, surreal musical-cabaret group, led since its founding in 1988 by composer-artist Frank Garvey. Shows integrate live performance with life-sized computer-controlled robotics and midi-controlled virtual-reality (VRpit) performers.

This site spotlights my testbed robot named "OR". There are a few tips for starting your own robot.

Plenty of links to other hobby robotics sites.

Robotics, Industry Automation Hardware and Software, Security Systems, Business Software

A provider of mobile robots for the consumer market, including the iRobot-LE home robot, Hasbro's My Real Baby doll, and a full line of robots for the research community.

High Power, intelligent DC Motor Controllers for remote controlled and autonomous robotic vehicles.

Develops software products and services for robotic and machine-vision applications.

Includes definition of terms and links to categorized resources.

The Robotics Academy develops educational robotics programs, CDs and videos for elementary, middle and high school teachers and students.

Formed in 2003. Meets in Istanbul area. Open to anyone with an interest in hobby robotics.

Covers meeting times, events, news and resources. Located in Ann Arbor.

Designing and constructing competitive robots for competition in BattleBots and other similar events.

Based in Roanoke area of South West Virginia, United States. Group promotes robotics as a hobby, and sponsors robotics education activities, including FIRST Lego League (FLL) teams.

Russia's Central Research and Development Institute of Robotics and Technical Cybernetics (CRDI RTC). Research topics include robotics and cybernetics for space, air, terrestrial, and anti-terrorism applications.

DARPA Mobile Autonomous Robot Software (MARS) project. MARS involves research into multi-level learning in hybrid deliberative/reactive mobile robot architecture.

Founded in 1983, HRL does research on the topics of robotic manipulation, choreography of dynamic systems, system identification, ananlog computation, and pattern generation.

University of British Columbia group specializing in decision-making, planning, reasoning, learning, object recognition, automation, mobile robotics, telerobotics, remote sensing, and geographic information systems.

University of Texas group working on spatial semantic hierarchies, vision recognition systems, manipulators, and mobile robots.

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.

Located at the University of Minnesota, research includes the coordination and deployment of multi-robot teams in various applications.

Research group based at the University of Leoben in Austria. Research topics include image processing, kinematics, machine learning, and industrial robotics.

DARPA funded project using many small robots for mapping and search missions. Videos and publications describing the collaborative communications architecture used by the Centibots.

A Robot designed to assist research into social interactions between robots and humans. Site has a publications list, photographs and videos, a research framework analysis and biographies of the project researchers.

Zaza the autonomous Tech Museum robot with photographs, media coverage, maps of the museum, and technical information.

After Honda with Asimo, Toyota is putting a lot of efforts in making the Partner Robots, designed for elder care in Japan.

Detailed technical information and internal specifications on the Lego Mindstorms RCX brick and Infrared tower with a large collection of programming resource links.

Company offering microcontrollers for automation, control, robotics and other embedded systems projects.

Manufacturer of industrial robots for palletizing, welding, handling and other plant automation systems. Technical information and simulation software. Based in Germany.

Global provider of industrial robotics and factory automation products. Based in Sweden.

Manufactures and markets intelligent robotics hardware and software for the manufacturing, electronics, telecommunications, pharmaceutical, food processing and automotive industries.

Manufacturer of high-precise industrial robots, factory automation products, and related software.

Supplier of End of Arm tooling, including magnetic grippers, vacuum grippers, custom grippers, tool changers, anticrash tools, compliance tools, deburring, polishing, deflashing tools, 6 axis force sensors and custom tooling.

Educational electronics kits that provide reusable, snap together circuit components.

Renee Montagne talks with Michael Griffis, owner of Eigenpoint Company. Griffis helped design a robot that is competing in this year's DARPA Grand Challenge. [3:02 streaming audio broadcast]

The purpose of this website is to provide a common place on the internet where FIRST robotic programmers can come and share or learn from example code uploaded and hosted on our web server. Created by Team 1501.

The official site for the 5th RoboCup world championships, held in Seattle, Washington USA. Site contains information for participants and the media. Final results are also listed.

Director of the MIT CS and AI Lab. CTO of iRobot. Involved in a wide range of robotics research initiatives. Best known as the creator of Subsumption Architecture in which layers of simple behaviors create complex emergent behaviors.

Creator of BEAM robotics, a controversial philosophy of robot building that advocates the use of "nervous nets" instead of conventional microprocessors as controllers, the use of recycled parts, and solar power.

AIBO owner's web site with images, logs, and a forum.

Community with forum for Pleo owners, comics, Pleo humor and information regarding the Robot and programming for it.

Open Source (GPL) project. A complete drag and drop environment for creating complex command scripts to animate a Robosapien robot.

VSA provides MS Windows-based motion control compatible with servo controllers commonly used in robotics applications such the Mini SSC, SV203, and SMI boards. VSA is proprietary, commercial software.

A platform independent servo controller driver compatible with FerretTronics and Phidget boards. Java and C++ versions. Free Software licensed under the GNU GPL.

Electric Drive Train Simulator. Can be used as a drive train development tool for mobile robots but was specifically developed for combat R/C vehicles such as those used in BattleBots. Proprietary software.

A 3D robot simulation and modeling tool. Proprietary software for MS Windows only. Website in English and German.

Information about Team Nightmare and current news, tips, links, pictures, video related to robotic combat.

A general forum to discuss building tips and make teams.

Full details of the entry Botweiler from 1999/2000 competition.