The goal of the institute is to develop, design, fabricate, test, and commercialize electrically and chemically controlled artificial muscles.

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.

Research topics include sensor based motion planning, robot locomotion, control theory, medical robotics, and modular robots.

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

Research center established in 1986 to provide manufacturing technological assistance for Kentucky's industries. Specializes in applied machine vision and industrial robotics.

A commercial research and development lab specializing in software intelligence, network connectivity, robotics, and man-machine interaction.

Research topics include robotic systems, multibody dynamics, robust control, and control design engineering.

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

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

Harvard University group working in surgical robotics, haptic interfaces, tactile sensing, and biomechanics.

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

Research topics include multi-robot systems, surgical robots, telerobotics, computer vision, automation, and remote sensing.

University of Tokyo research lab. Research project include various humanoid robots, soft-spine robots, artificial skin, gel robots, and motion planning.

The LPR at the University of Massachusetts Amherst conducts research on humanoid robots, grasping and manipulation, legged locomotion, networked sensors and motor services.

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.

Research topics include ambulatory robotics, mobile robotics, artificial perception, haptics, industrial automation, motor vision, and shape analysis.

Service Robotic research projects include volcano inspection robots, orange picking robots, climbing robots and microrobots.

University of Illinois group based at the Beckman Institute. Specializes in robot vision technologies such as curved object recognition and structure from motion algorithms.

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

Established in 1979 to conduct basic and applied research in robotics technologies relevant to industrial and societal tasks. Links to a range of specific robots and labs.

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.

Information on autonomous robot research and student robotics projects at the Southern Illinois University of Edwardsville.

Consists of understanding how you do work in space; with people, with robots and how the two work together.

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.

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.