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Cox Did Not Infringe Verizon Internet Telephony Patents: Jury
Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:46:45 -0400
Verizon had accused Cox of infringing six patents related to Internet telephony. Verizon settled a similar suit against digital phone service provider Vonage last year for $117.5 million. - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cox Communications did not infringe patents owned by Verizon Communications, a jury in Virginia decided on Monday. Verizon had accused Cox of infringing six patents related to Internet telephony, but a jury at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia decid...
Mozilla Geode to Join Google, Yahoo for Geolocation Web Services
Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:33:02 -0400
Mozilla Labs is set to launch a geolocation add-on called Geode in the wake of similar Web services from Google and Yahoo. This latest application development comes as location-based Web services are heating up. But what form will such services take beyond the now cliche restaurant review scenario? - Mozilla Labs Oct. 7 will announce Geode, a geolocation add-on for the Firefox Web browser, which will enable developers to create content tailored toward users' locations. In a brief note before the launch, a Mozilla spokesperson said that with Geode, a user who is looking for restaurants while ...
AMD Spins Off Processor Manufacturing Facilities to Better Compete with Intel
Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:01:58 -0400
AMD is now offering details of on its much anticipated �asset smart� plan, which will allow the chip maker to spin off its processor manufacturing facilities into a new company. The plans will allow AMD to trim its payroll, concentrate on engineering and designing new processors and graphics chips for PCs and server systems, and allow AMD to better compete with Intel. - Advanced Micro Devices is finally detailing its long talked about �asset smart� plan, which will allow the chip maker to spin off its manufacturing facilities into a new company while allowing AMD to reduce its financial debt and better compete against Intel. The new manufacturing company, wh...
5 Technology Businesses Poised to Boom in the Financial Crisis
Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:27:32 -0400
Risk management, e-discovery, enterprise search, e-mail archiving, and secure and managed file transfers might all beat hard times in a recession or economic downturn in the wake of the Wall Street financial crisis. Risk management, e-discovery, enterprise search, e-mail archiving, and secure and managed file transfers are all positioned for a boom as the business and financial sector call on their unique services more than ever. - Risk management, secure and managed file transfers, e-discovery, e-mail archiving, and enterprise search are all positioned for a boom as the business and financial sector call on their unique services more than ever. 1. Risk management Companies that offer risk assessment tools, such as RSA Se...
E-Discovery Search and Storage Providers Await a Litigation Boom Following Financial Crash
Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:27:28 -0400
E-discovery providers stand to gain from the Wall Street financial crisis, as potential customers such as investors, shareholders and pension funds prepare to pursue or defend lawsuits. E-discovery firms such as Kazeon, Autonomy, Clearwell Systems, Attenex, Symantec, Seagate Technology's MetaLINCS, Iron Mountain's Stratify, LexisNexis, Recommind and some other smaller companies are in good standing to gain business from what many expect to be a surge in litigation surrounding the Wall Street financial crisis. - Now is a good time to be an e-discoveryware provider. Companies such as Kazeon, Autonomy, Clearwell Systems, Attenex, Symantec, Seagate Technology's MetaLINCS, Iron Mountain's Stratify, LexisNexis, Recommind and some other smaller companies stand to gain business from what many expect to be a su...
eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Lotus Symphony 1.1
Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:35:35 -0400
Lotus Symphony 1.1 is a freely-available office productivity suite from IBM that brings together a trio of word processor, spreadsheet and presentation applications under a Big Blue label. Symphony's interface is new, based on Eclipse, but its internals are old, based on OpenOffice.org 1.1.4; the result is a fairly good productivity suite with an interface that's much fresher-and a feature set that's more stale-than those that grace the OpenOffice.org 3.0 release I recently tested. - Upon firing up the Lotus Symphony 1.1 word processor application, I was impressed right away by its tabbed interface, which makes switching between different documents as well as spreadsheets and presentations as easy as shifting between tabbed pages in Firefox. However, it wasn't...

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Fed to buy massive amounts of short-term debt
Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:35:25 -0700
The Federal Reserve announced Tuesday a radical plan to buy massive amounts of short-term debt in a dramatic effort to break through a credit clog that is imperiling the economy.
World stocks swoon; new rescue weighed
Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:33:28 -0700
As pressure built in the credit markets and stocks spiraled lower around the world on Monday, the Federal Reserve was considering a radical new plan to jump-start the engine of the financial system.
Positions harden in Boeing strike; McNerney, unions spar over outsourcing
Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:51:29 -0700
Boeing has not talked directly with the International Association of Machinists (IAM) since the union's strike began more than four weeks ago. But in a memo to salaried employees still at work, McNerney said Boeing won't scramble to settle on the union's terms.

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A.M.D. to Split Into Two Operations
Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:05:21 -0000
In a dramatic effort to maintain its position as the only real rival to Intel, Advanced Micro Devices plans to announce that it will become two companies.
Seeking Broader Reach for Social Web Sites
Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:35:56 -0000
As the Web becomes a more social place, media companies are trying to make it easier to share links, add comments to articles and extend online identities.
DealBook: Venture Capitalists Are Hearing Footsteps
Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:44:21 -0000
Venture capitalists are optimists by nature. But these days, even some of the sunniest venture investors are having dark moments of the soul.

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Mercury, up close: Photos to be unveiled
Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:42:48 -0400
A U.S. spacecraft was scheduled to beam hundreds of photos of Mercury back to Earth on Tuesday after a close encounter with the planet closest to the sun. The images should show scientists never-before-seen landscapes on the planet.
Three physicists share Nobel prize
Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:20:46 -0400
An American physicist and two physicists from Japan will share this year's Nobel Prize in Physics, the Nobel Foundation announced Tuesday.
Review: Zune music player catching up to iPod
Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:33:27 -0400
Slowly but surely, Microsoft's Zune is staking its claim as a legitimate alternative to Apple's iPod line of MP3 players.

NPR Topics: Technology

New Solar Cell Easy As Pizza To Make
Sat, 04 Oct 2008 12:16:00 -0400
The iJET is a new type of solar cell that's cheap and easy to make, requiring not much more than a pizza oven, some nail polish remover, and a common inkjet printer. Australian scientist Nicole Kuepper describes her invention.
SpaceX Celebrates First Successful Rocket Launch
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:53:00 -0400
SpaceX's flagship Falcon1 rocket has successfully launched from an island in the central Pacific, becoming the first privately-developed rocket to orbit the planet. NASA has already contracted SpaceX to begin private space flight missions to the International Space Station beginning in 2010.
Northeast States Trade Carbon Emission Credits
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:46:00 -0400
A consortium of Northeast states has completed the first cap-and-trade greenhouse gas auction in the U.S. Under cap-and-trade, limits are set on emissions. Companies that do not use up their quota of emissions are able to sell their excess emission capacity to other companies.

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Cars set to get parental controls
Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:05:21 -0000
Ford is to introduce a key-based security system that limits what younger drivers can do to the family car.
DVD copying software gets pulled
Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:23:36 -0000
RealNetworks is being pursued by six movie studios over software that makes copies of DVD films so they can be played on a PC.
Oyster card hack details revealed
Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:41:32 -0000
Dutch researchers reveal details of how they managed to copy the radio chips used on London's Oyster card.

Reuters Video: Technology

Shazam enters new era
Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:22:20 -0400
Oct 6 - The mobile music discovery service has seen a surge of new users after broadening its offering to work seamlessly with social networks.
Solar clothes
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:30:01 -0400
Oct. 3 - Argentine designer looks to the future by creating solar-powered clothing.
Ring ring, bling bling
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:21:52 -0400
Oct. 3 - Ring ring, bling bling; NIntendo's latest player, 3D reality, and a hybrid motorbike.

AP Top Technology News At 10:52 a.m. EDT

AMD to spin off factories in bid to save money
By BARBARA ORTUTAY Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:27:38 -0000
NEW YORK (AP) -- In a move to dramatically cut costs and better compete with Intel Corp., chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said Tuesday it will spin off its factories into a new joint venture with investors in the Persian Gulf state of Abu Dhabi....
EBay cutting 1,600 jobs, 10 percent of work force
By RACHEL METZ Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:14:42 -0000
NEW YORK (AP) -- After a series of changes designed to draw more people to its online marketplace, eBay Inc.'s latest alteration is aimed at its own employees. The auction site operator said Monday it will cut about 1,600 jobs, 10 percent of its work force, in its largest round of dismissals ever....
Ford feature will let parents set limits for teens
By TOM KRISHER Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:49:28 -0000
DETROIT (AP) -- So you think junior is a little too lead-footed when he drives the family car? Starting next year, Ford Motor Co. will give you the power to do something about it....

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Kleiner Perkins backs smart-grid firm Silver Spring
Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:11:00 -0700
Venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins digs into its Green Growth fund to lead a $75 million investment in Silver Spring Networks, which uses IP-enabled devices to improve grid reliability.
AMD finds 'fabless' alternative
Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:45:00 -0700
The chip company is not going fabless in the classic sense of the word: a design house without any manufacturing facilities.
VeriSign sells Jamba stake to News Corp.
Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:38:00 -0700
The domain registrar sells its 49 percent share of the mobile-entertainment joint venture to its partner, News Corp., for $200 million. Ringtones sound good to Murdoch's media empire.

 

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Automation Department - Luleå University of Technology group specializing in telerobotics and models and algorithms for controlling the motion of robots using geometrical sensors.

Sensing Laboratory - Specializes in sensor data fusion for mobile robots. Based at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey

Systems Engineering - University of Sheffield group specializing in intelligent systems and control, nonlinear systems, and signal processing.

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.
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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.
Meta Description: [ ADVOCATE is an open, modular and generic software architecture for autonomous robotic systems diagnosis and control. It allows easy integration of innovative, reliable and tested AI techniques into existing robots. ]

AG Technische Informatik - Based at the University of Bielefeld. Main research topics include biorobotics, cognitive robotics, sensorimotor control, and parallel computation.

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-robot/computer interaction.
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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.
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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.

Australian Research Network in Robotics - Aids the sharing of resources and ideas between robotics groups in Australia by summarising current projects and facilities throughout the country. Also has a list of robot-related events.

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.

404 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.
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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.

CEDRA - Center of Excellence in Design, Robotics and Automation - Robotics Research department of The Sharif University of Technology, Iran.

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

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 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.

Center for Robotics and Manufacturing Systems, University of Kentucky - Research center established in 1986 to provide manufacturing technological assistance for Kentucky's industries. Specializes in applied machine vision and industrial robotics.
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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.
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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.

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.

500 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.
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Charité Surgical Navigation and Robotics Lab - Engineers, computer scientists, and doctors work together at this lab to develop surgical robotics technologies.

404 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.

404 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 - Research interests include construction of geometric and photometric correct 3D models, 3D grasping and simulation, micro-manipulation, visual servoing, visual control, model-based planning.

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.

CoMRoS - Cooperative Mobile Robot Systems - Group based at the University Stuttgart, Germany that work with cooperative planning and coordination of mobil robots.

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.
Meta Description: [ Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology ]

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 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.

Design and Control of Mechatronical Systems - Lab at Johannes Kepler University Linz researching topics that include suitable modeling and control approaches and control-oriented process analysis and design.

DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics - Research topics include robotic systems, multibody dynamics, robust control, and control design engineering.

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.
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(Robotics and Embedded Systems) Lab. (RESY) ]

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.

404 EOEML Automation Research - Georgia Tech group developing robotics for poultry processing applications including computer vision systems, transport systems, and deboning robots.
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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
Meta Description: [ The Institute of Robotics emerged from the Institute of Mechanics in January 1990. It is a member of the interdisciplinary Mechatronics Group of the ETH. Within the scopes of Mechatronics we do research on the dynamics of controlled mechanical systems, concentrating mainly on two typical areas ro... ]

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.

Fraunhofer IFF Division of Automation - Research areas include robotic systems and intelligent sensor systems.

Frontios - Future Systems Engineering - Works with local Swedish Universities in the area of robotics, applied AI, fuzzy logic, neural nets, software engineering and management.
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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.

404 GMD Autonomous Systems and Robotics - Research topics include cognitive robotics, adaptive systems, cooperation, distributed real-time control, and goal-oriented navigation.
Meta Description: [ Autonomous Systems / Robotics at GMD (Institutes, Researchers, and Projects) ]

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.
Meta Description: [ Aerial Robotics group at ATAS Laboratory, a unit of Georgia Tech Research Institute. ]

Havard Biorobotics Laboratory - Harvard University group working in surgical robotics, haptic interfaces, tactile sensing, and biomechanics.

500 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.
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500 HUT - Automation Technology Laboratory - Specializes in the field of automation technology including robotics, mechatronics and control of industrial processes.

500 HUT Automation Technology Laboratory - Helsinki University of Technology group specializing in mechatronics, perception, navigation, legged machines, and mobile robot societies.

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.

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.
Meta Description: [ The INL is working to develop a new class of robotic systems that can adjust their level of autonomy on the fly, leveraging their own intrinsic intelligence to meet whatever level of control is handed down from the user. ]

Institute for Automation - Research group based at the University of Leoben in Austria. Research topics include image processing, kinematics, machine learning, and industrial robotics.
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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.
Meta Description: [ Homepage of the Institute for Process Control and Robotics ]

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 Automatic Control Engineering - Research interests include multi-modal telepresence and teleaction, neuroprosthetics, intelligent humanoid walking, and autonomous mobile robots.

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.
Meta Description: [ The Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems pursues a dynamic research program that maintains a strong robotics research focus on several emerging areas of science and technology. A major component of IRIS research leverages advanced robotics for creating intelligent machines that operate a... ]

Institute of Robotics Research - University of Dortmund group specializing in multi-robot systems, space robotics, communication structures, 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.

500 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.
Meta Description: [ This site provides detailed information regarding the objectives, research, people, publications, and events of the Intelligent Servosystems Laboratory of the Institute for Systems Research of the University of Maryland ]

ISA System Engineering and Automation Department - Research topics include multi-robot systems, surgical robots, telerobotics, computer vision, automation, and remote sensing.

IU Hardware Methods Group - Research topics include Kirchoff machines, robot locomotion, and vision. Site also includes information on the Stiquito six legged robot.

JHU Robot And Protein Kinematics Group - Johns Hopkins University group specializing in kinematic studies of robots, metamorphic robots, and binary robots.

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.

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.
Meta Description: [ Laboratory devoted to research in computational reasoning, perception and robotics at the University of British Columbia. ]

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.
Meta Description: [ Robotics Research ]

Laval University Robotics Laboratory - Mainly focused on the study of parallel mechanisms and articulated robotic hands.
Meta Description: [ One of the most active labs in the field of parallel mechanisms. ]

404 Lehigh MAV - Based at Lehigh University. Site includes details of the group's Micro Air Vehicle research and design program.

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.

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.
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Lund University, Division of Robotics - Research includes development of simulation tools to improve the performance of industrial and service robotics.
Meta Description: [ Our research is mainly concerned with robotic systems in industrial and service applications, as well as simulation and optimization of manufacturing systems. ]

Machine Intelligence Lab - University of Cambridge Department of Engineering research group. Specializes in computer vision, speech processing, and pattern recognition.
Meta Description: [ Home page of the Machine Intelligence Laboratory (Formerly SVR Group), University of Cambridge Department of Engineering ]

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.
Meta Description: [ Home page of the Machine Intelligence Laboratory (Formerly SVR Group), University of Cambridge Department of Engineering ]

500 Manchester Robotics - University of Manchester, Department of Computer Science group specializing in medical robotics, mobile robots, walking robots, sociable robotics, and evolutionary robotics.
Meta Description: [ These pages describe the research and taught courses in robotics performed at the School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK ]

McGill University Center for Intelligent Machines - Research topics include ambulatory robotics, mobile robotics, artificial perception, haptics, industrial automation, motor vision, and shape analysis.

McGill University Mobile Robotics Research - Site includes searchable bibliography, project list and other resources.

Mechatronic Systems and Robotics Research Group - University of Surrey lab researching robotic workcells, industrial robotics, sensors, and robot control.

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.

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.

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.

Multi-purpose Aerial Robotic Vehicle with Intelligent Navigation, TU Berlin - At the University Berlin, Marvin, a descendant of the airplane-robot Tubrob is developed.

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 Automation, Robotics, and Simulation Division - Information on projects by the ARSD, such as robots to assist astronauts during extra-vehicular activity.

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.
Meta Description: [ The home page for the NASA Space Telerobotics and Program, which is responsible for robotics and planetary rover research for the agency. ]

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.

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.
Meta Description: [ Robotics and Energetic Machines Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee ]

Oxford Robotics Research Group - Research topics include active vision, visual geometry, pattern analysis, machine learning, sonar imaging, sensor systems, and artificial neural networks.

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.

Purdue Robot Vision Lab - Specialties include 3D object recognition, vision-guided navigation for indoor mobile robots, task and assembly planning.

Research in the field of robots and cyborgs - Gert conducts research in the field of robots and cyborgs.

500 Revity Laboratory - Researches the use of evolution-based simulations to develop robot brains that can solve real-world problems when placed into a physical robots.

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.

Robot Research.org - News and discussion site aimed at robotics research topics.
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Robotic Group DIEES University of CATANIA - Service Robotic research projects include volcano inspection robots, orange picking robots, climbing robots and microrobots.

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 Process Control - A discontinued group at University of Kaiserslautern that specialized in mobile robots, 3D sonar sensing, and 3D scanning.

Robotics at Brown University - Research topics include environment mapping and path planning.

Robotics Institute: Robot Learning Lab - Offers details regarding Carnegie Mellon University research initiatives and lists publications and related personnel.

Robotics University of Utah - Topics include agents, hybrid mobile robots, humanoid robots, haptic interfaces, and personal assistive devices

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.

Scientific American: Controlling Robots with the Mind - October 2002 article detailing research into direct brain control of robotic prosthetic devices, by Miguel A. L. Nicolelis and John K. Chapin
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SIUE Robotics Page - Information on autonomous robot research and student robotics projects at the Southern Illinois University of Edwardsville.
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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.
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Space Systems Laboratory, University of Maryland - Consists of understanding how you do work in space; with people, with robots and how the two work together.

404 Sparc-E and robotic research at the University of South Alabama - Dedicated to small autonomous mobile robotics research and robotics use in the curriculum at the University of South Alabama

Spy Flies - Describes research on tiny robotic flyers, called Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs), being developed for military and civilian applications.
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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.
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Stanford Dextrous Manipulation Lab - Standford University lab specializing in telemanipulation with haptic feedback, biomimetic robots, and other tactile and haptic research.

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.
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Swarm-bots project - EU-IST project aimed at the study of new approaches to design and implementation of self-organizing and self-assembling artifacts.

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.

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.

404 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.

Telepresence Surgery - Description of research and development of a robotic telepresence system by SRI to perform Minimal Invasive Surgery (MIS).

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.

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

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.

The Robotics Institute of CMU - Established in 1979 to conduct basic and applied research in robotics technologies relevant to industrial and societal tasks. Site includes links to a wide range of specific robots and labs.
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The robots at LAMI - Lists robotics related activities at EPFL in Switzerland.

Toy Robots Initiative - A research project at Carnegie Mellon University. It aims to commercialize robotics technologies in education, toys and entertainment.
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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.

UFL Machine Intelligence Laboratory - University of Florida group specializing in UAVs, Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs), and underwater robotics.

UIC Computer Vision and Robotics Laboratory - University of Illinois at Chicago group specializing in robot control, haptics, mobile robotics, computer vision.
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Ulm Robotics - University of Ulm group with interests that include distributed mobile robot control, biometric multi-modal learning, and robocup robotics.

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.

University of Alberta Robotics Research Group - Specializes in telepresence, multi-agent systems, robotic collectives, tactile sensing, and dextrous manipulation.
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University of Bochum Neuroinformatics Institute - Research topics include robotics, computer vision, neural robotics skills, and navigation systems for autonomous mobile robots.

University of Delaware Robotics and Control - Research topics include dynamic systems, fabrication of novel robots, rehabilitation robotics, and precision farming machines.

University of Maribor Institute of Robotics - Research is divided into three groups: industrial robotics, kinematics and simulations, and power electronics.

University of Texas at Austin Robotics Research Group - A research group focusing on the development of intelligent, modular, and reconfigurable robotics and automation systems.
Meta Description: [ The Robotics Research Group at the University of Texas At Austin. The RRG is also a member of the University Research Program in Robotics (funded by the DOE). ]

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, mechanical and electronics.

UP Mobile Robotics Laboratory - University of the Philippines Electronics and Electrical Engineering Department robotics lab. Primarily 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'.

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.
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Visual Servoing Home Page - Bibliography of printed and online information about the control of robot manipulators based on visual perception.

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.

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.

Wisconsin Center for Space Automation and Robotics - WCSAR is a NASA sponsored research center that helps with the commercialization of robotics, automation, and other advanced technologies.
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