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Machine Intelligence Laboratory, University of Florida;The Machine Intelligence Laboratory (MIL) at the University of Florida gives a synergistic environment solely dedicated to the study, research and development of intelligent autonomous robots. The students and faculties within the lab are doing research related to the theory and realization of machine intelligence, covering issues like machine learning, real-time computer vision, statistical modeling, robotics kinematics, autonomous vehicles, Tele-operation and human interfaces, robot and non-linear manipulation, computational intelligence, neural networks, Hidden Markov Models (HMMs), and general robotics. The MIL has many projects. Among them are its underwater unmanned vehicles, swarm robots, humanoid robots, the direct brain machine interfaces or BMI’s, Autonomous household robots, and the Micro-Air Vehicles (MAV’s). Its SubjuGator, which is one of its underwater unmanned vehicles, holds the distinction of being the three-time and current champion of autonomous submarine of the AUVSI/ONR underwater contest. Another project which the lab has undertaken was its MAV, or Micro Air Vehicles. The goals there were to develop basic research and technologies, allowing unprecedented capabilities for these MAVs and other small Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs). Here, the potential capabilities are being studied, such as the vehicles being used for search and rescue, tracking moving targets, assessing bomb damages, and identifying and localizing interesting ground structures. All of these are considered or can be dangerous for humans, and using these technologies could not only prove efficient but can also save human lives. In 2005, the lab moved to the Center for Intelligent Machines and Robotics (CIMAR) in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department. The move allowed them to streamline their efforts and at the same time made them more efficient.
http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/mi/
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Founded 1996
Australia
Robotic Systems Lab, Australian National University;Founded in October 1996, the Robotic Systems Lab (RSL), which is part of the Department of Systems Engineering of the Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering of the Australian National University, (ANU) has tackled research projects related to the R3 constraint, which is short for Real-robots working in the Real-world in Real-time. Composed of a group with four academics, 3 research support staffs, 8 PhD students, 2 masters students and spearheaded by Professor Alex Zelinsky, the group’s main research fields are cooperative robot systems, mobile robot navigation, active vision, robot learning and human-robot/computer interaction. The lab is also part of ANU’s Center for Visual Science, and has likewise established various projects, which include: mobile robots in collaboration with the Intelligent Robot Laboratory of the Tsukuba University, submersible robots with the Australian Centre for Field Robotics of the Sydney University, and the human-robot interaction with the Intelligent Systems Division of the Electrotechnical Laboratory. In December of 2000, the Robotic Systems Lab launched its first ever start-up company, the Seeing Machines. This company was founded by several of RSL’s very own researchers and engineers. The company’s industrial research is being funded and supported by the Volvo Technological Development Corporation. Among the multiple projects that the Robotic Systems Lab has undertaken includes Mobile Robotics projects, which aim not only to develop a robust and reliable mobile robot for long term operations, but also to develop a teleoperation interface allowing web based control in a lab environment. Another project is the Intelligent Vehicle Project, which aims to develop an intelligent vehicle to do intelligent vehicle system research. RSL has also managed to build an autonomous submersible robot under its Autonomous Submersible Robot project. Through this project, the group aims to investigate fundamental issues of autonomous operation of underwater transportation. The lab has also researched the actuators based on Shape Memory Alloys, (SMA) which is deemed very useful in robotics. Past projects under the Robotic Systems Laboratory include: Reinforcement Learning, the High Performance Binocular Active Vision, Stereo Tracking for Head Pose and Gaze Point Estimation, Visual Interface for Human-Robot Interaction, the Dexterous Manipulator, and the Gesture Interface to Virtual Environments.
http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~rsl/
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Robotics and Control, University of Delaware;Robotics and Control is part of the University of Delaware’s College of Engineering and has been actively focused on designing, controlling and deploying robots in an effort to replace people in dangerous jobs and/or locations. Robotic devices that were developed and currently being worked on at Robotics and Control have been used in environment exploration and inspection. And from the deepest part of the ocean to the wide open outer space, these devices have been utilized and have been a part of the lab’s research. The robotic research done in this department can be categorized into three major areas: cooperative robotics, robots for assisted human motion, and bio-inspired robotic systems. The first area enables teams of robots to work jointly, allowing ensembles of robots to cooperatively do tasks that not one of them can complete on its own. The second category is an active area of overlap between the department’s strengths in robotics and biomechanics. Among the projects developed in this category are those machines that assist children with developmental difficulties, and older people with brain or spinal injuries. Lastly, the bio-inspired robotic systems envision legged robots as an alternative to the usual traditional wheeled and/or tracked ground vehicles. Aside from these areas, the Robotics and Control lab at the University of Delaware is doing basic research in manipulation theory, which would allow us to understand real-world decision making issues confronted not only by people, but also robots.
http://www.me.udel.edu/research/robotics.html
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Greece
ICS Computational Vision and Robotics Laboratory;The ICS Computational Vision and Robotics Laboratory (CVRL) was founded back in 1985. Here, their activities are geared towards research and development in the areas related to computer vision and autonomous mobile robots with intelligent behavior. Its research emphasizes more on visual perception of static and dynamic characteristics of the 3D world, object tracking, robot navigation and behavior modeling. Additionally, the lab is involved in the exploration of machine learning methods in robotic applications. In line with this, the lab reinforces learning and genetic algorithms, which they utilize in order to make the robot capable of improving its skills and at the same time acquire new sets of skills. To show their prowess, the ICS CVRL has the following projects and robots to their name: a RWI B21r robotic platform that has a SICK PLS laser scanner, sonar, IR and bumper sensor which they call LEFKOS, the Plato, which is a 4-wheeled skid drive robotic platform, the Peleas, an in-house designed and constructed robot that is a differential drive robotic platform, and the FLYBOT, a RUAV or Rotocraft Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. There is the robotic wheelchair, a special kind of wheelchair that is equipped with sonar sensors and panoramic vision. The Lab aims to apply all the methods, technologies, and tools they have created and developed to industrial automation, the support of people with special needs, space monitoring and security, home automation and the like. And with their extensive expertise in the development of prototype robotic systems, the lab also has the potential to broaden its research infrastructures.
http://www.ics.forth.gr/cvrl/
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USA
Center for Robotics and Manufacturing Systems, University of Kentucky;The Center for Robotics and Manufacturing Systems (CRMS) of the University of Kentucky was established in 1986 by the Commonwealth of Kentucky. This Center is the foremost source of manufacturing technological assistance for the state’s industries, offering services to more than 350 companies, businessmen, and agencies every year. The center also performs manufacturing research, transfers manufacturing technologies to businesses, and supports educational endeavors in manufacturing. Its mission is to provide leading manufacturing research, manufacturing education, engineering services, and skilled graduates that will help businesses not only in the state of Kentucky but in other parts of the country and the world to be more successful and competitive in their national and global markets. To achieve this goal, the CRMS has formed partnerships with several entities related to what they have been researching. Among them are the Kentucky Association of Manufacturers, whose purpose is to give leadership for growth of current manufacturers and at the same time attract new manufacturers. Another is the Automotive Research Alliance, where the CRMS supplies research resources such as technology and manufacturing solutions to automotive manufacturers and suppliers. They also provide academic and training programs for those who are interested. Then there is DAU, or Defense Acquisition University, which grants compulsory assignments specifically, and continuing education courses for military and civilian acquisition personnel within the Department of Defense. Also included are the Productivity Press, Secat Inc., and the American Industrial Extension Alliance, or AIEA. Among their many accomplishments was the state’s first surgical procedure using robotic equipment. It was performed on a female patient who underwent a coronary artery bypass. The daVinci was used by surgeons to help detach a mammary artery from under the patient’s sternum. Another is the contribution of one of their alumni to NASA. Also, Robotnaut 2 was a humanoid robot that was used on the International Space Station.
http://www.mfg.uky.edu/
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Founded date unknown
Russia
Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University;Formerly known as the Saint Petersburg Technical University, the Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University is Russia’s major technical university located in St. Petersburg. This university has a lot of former names, including Peter the Great Polytechnical Institute and Kalinin Polytechnical Institute. It was founded in 1899. From 1910 to 1914, it was named the Saint Petersburg Peter the Great Polytechnical Institute. From 1914 to 1922 it was Petrograd Peter the Great Polytechnical Institute, then it was further changed to First Petrograd Polytechnical Institute from 1922-1923. It was named again as Petrograd Polytechnical Institute in 1923-1924, followed by Leningrad Polytechnical Institute from 1924 to 1930. For four years commencing in 1930, it was divided into several colleges and branches using different names. In 1934 -1940 the name Leningrad Industrial Institute was adopted. Then in 1940 up to 1990 it was named as Leningrad Polytechnical Institute again. The name was changed again from 1990-1991 to Leningrad State Technical University. Saint Petersburg State Technical University was adopted from 1991-2002 before it finally settled to what is now named today. Abbreviated as SPbSPU, this university is Russia’s top research facility and is the leading educational institution in the fields of applied physics and mathematics, industrial engineering, chemical engineering, aerospace engineering and several other academic disciplines. This Russian university is comparable to Caltech in the US, and houses one of Russia’s most advanced research laboratories in hydro-aerodynamics. SPbSPU offers several academic programs in Bachelor, Master Degrees and Doctorate levels. It also has four main scientific faculties: the Faculty of Physics and Mechanics, the Faculty of Radio-physical Science and Engineering, the Faculty of Physical Science and Technology and the Faculty of Medical Physics and Bioengineering. In 2000, the University established its Department of Telematics, which aims to research in the field of network technologies for data, information processing and gaining for measuring and computing systems, virtual instruments, devices, information security and tools of space robotics. Here, the department managed to create a telematic platform for making clusters of virtual instruments with a reconfigurable structure based on FPGA technology. The department also took part in several research activities and space experiments in Russia’s segment of the International Space Station, carried out in collaboration with Germany’s Institute of Mechatronics and Robotics. Another department of the university is the Central Institute of Robotics and Technical Cybernetics which was created as a special design office of technical cybernetics. Among its basic functions includes robotics and control systems, photon techniques, special instrument creation, laser technology and Telenetics. Here, enrollees can opt to study in their Bachelor Degree Directions, which offers Automation and Control and the Information Science and Computer Engineering. Master degree Directions is also available where students can study in several programs, including Elements and Devices of Computer Engineering and Information Systems, Control in Engineering Systems, Automation of Technological Processes and productions, Computer Networks and Telecommunications, and Computer Modeling.
http://www.spbstu-eng.ru/
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Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems;The University Of Southern California Viterbi School Of Engineering has a group of interdisciplinary organized research units, or ORU, that centers its research on the science and technology of robotic systems using broad and far-reaching applications. This ORU is known as the Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems, or CRES. Established in 2002, the lab continues to expand and serves as a source for strategic research areas at the university and expedites interdisciplinary interactions and collaborations through its robotics faculty and various team of affiliates, not just within the school but from external sources as well. The lab also aims to improve robotics education and integrate robotics into its curriculum, and envisions getting robotics out of their laboratory and incorporating it into our society. To make the goal of this robotic center really achievable, CRES projects expand to the areas of service, humanoid, distributed, reconfigurable, space, and nano robotics and impact a spectrum of applications that includes assistance, training and rehabilitation, education, environmental monitoring and cleanup, emergency response, homeland security, and the entertainment industry. Among various projects that have been worked on inside the robotic lab are the 20+ Pioneer mobile robots, pairs of large and small helicopters, Sony robot dogs, the Khepera robots, robomotes, scanning probe microscopes, Sarcos arms, full-body Sarcos humanoid, several soccer robots, several humanoid torso robots, PRIMUS Vision head, SARCOS Little Dog Quadruped robot, and the Beobots Chimp and SeeBee. Helping the center achieve its goals are national laboratories, industry leaders, museums, and other institutions interested in robotics, including The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Intel Corporation, Evolution Robotics, Inc., iRobot Corporation., California Science Center, Kidspace Children’s Museum, John Deere, BEI Technologies, and the RoboDynamic Corporation, among others. These partners have allowed the center to expand its horizons further and make significant improvements in the world of robotics.
http://cres.usc.edu/Home/
University
Founded date unknown
United Kingdom
Mechatronic Systems and Robotics Research Group, University of Surrey;The Mechatronics Systems and Robotics Research (MSRR) Group has been part of the world of robotics and automation since 1976. Led by Professor Graham Parker, the MSRR group is best known for its work not only in the field of industrial robot calibration but also in the development of robotic stereo vision systems. Based in the University of Surrey Robotics Lab, the MSRR Group has been inside the university’s campus since 1989. Aside from the group’s office facilities, also found at the lab are the research facilities, which includes industrial and laboratory robotic workcells, a Bosch conveyor system and the laser metrology area. The MSRR group has 3 industrial robot arm systems which composed of 2 Unimation Puma’s and 1 Adept Systems Scara device on hand aside from the three Zymark laboratory testing robot which was donated by Esso UK. The group also has a customized RWI mobile vehicle at its facility. Also at the MSRR facility is a Bosch flexible manufacturing workcell which features a 40-foot conveyor and incorporates two industrial robots, vision systems and several other sensors. The MSRR group is also equipped with a state-of-the-art brushing technology mainly used for sweeping brushes and vehicles. With its LABVIEW environment, brush speed, axial torque and wear can be recovered automatically. Among the recent research projects that MSRR has undertaken includes the utilization of augmented reality (AR). Here virtual reality graphics blend with real video images. There is also work on haptic feedback, which is the lab’s own phantom device being used in robotic teleoperations and applications. The group has also performed research about telepresence for operations in remote and dangerous environments, including advanced specialist vehicular technologies, which includes sensors being used in mobile vehicles, sewer robots and on autonomous road sweepers, and the machine vision for automated inspection and non-destructive testing. The group also teaches courses to undergraduates of BEng and MEng, and also to modular MSc in Advanced manufacturing Management Technology students.
http://www.surrey.ac.uk/kta
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Center for Self-Organizing and Intelligent Systems, Utah State University;The Center for Self-Organizing and Intelligent Systems, or CSOIS, at Utah State University is a multi-disciplinary research group geared towards the design, development and implementation of intelligent, autonomous mechatronic systems, concentrating recently on ground vehicles and robotics. The CSOIS was organized back in 1992, getting its funds from the Center of Excellence Program of the State of Utah. During this time, the new organization, which had initial projects two years earlier, started creating infrastructures of personnel and was able to get more projects funded by other sources. One of its prominent projects then was the Utah Manufacturing Extension Program or UMEP, which was under the NIST MEP program whose aim was to help manufacturers with technology. Several years later, the center’s research further enhanced the theory, development, and application of systems that requires advanced automation, autonomous operation, intelligent decision-making, and learning to arrive at their goal. Though located inside the university’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the CSOIS is a horizontally-integrated group, with researchers in electrical and computer engineering, mechanical engineering, and computer science. Among the projects created at the CSOIS was one made by one of its graduate students: work on the telepresence over the Internet. This student, George Powell, later went further. He created his own company, which collaborated with Lego Company at The Planetary Society to develop the Red Rover, a robotic kit which uses his Internet telepresence and targets middle schools. And with their recent focus on ground vehicles, the center has likewise worked on automating two different tractors capable of spraying an orchard autonomously. It was done for one of the biggest companies in the industry, John Deere, and is ready for mass production. CSOIS has also been developing robotic vehicles for TACOM wherein they have employed smart wheels. These robots are omni-directional vehicles or ODVs which uses smart wheels attached to its chassis. These robotic vehicles are used for autonomous and semi-autonomous applications.
http://www.csois.usu.edu/
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USA
Space Systems Laboratory, University of Maryland;Founded at the Boston-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology back in 1976, the Space Systems Laboratory (SSL) early studies include space construction methods, which eventually led to the Experimental Assembly of Structures in EVA or EASE flight experiment, which was onboard Space Shuttle mission STS-61-B back in 1985. In 1990, the lab moved to the University of Maryland through the direction of its director, Dr. Dave Akin. And two years later in 1992, the Neutral Buoyancy Research facility was completed, paving the way for advance research in the field of space robotics and buoyancy in space. SSL is part of the University of Maryland’s A. James Clark School of Engineering and Aerospace Engineering Department found at College Park, Maryland. This laboratory has long been acclaimed to be a leader in astronautics, concentrating around its 50-foot diameter, 25-foot deep water tank: the Neutral Buoyancy Research Facility. This water tank is the only one of its kind housed inside a university, and is being utilized to simulate the microgravity environment of outer space. The facility is also being used by undergraduates and graduate research and the Space Systems Laboratory. The lab’s research also focuses on space robotics, on various human factors, on the applications of Artificial Intelligence and on the essentials of space simulation. Among its projects includes a four armed satellite repair robot called the Ranger. Another is the SCAMP, which is a free flying underwater camera platform. Both these robots, together with their predecessors, were developed and created at the lab’s facility, with the Ranger and SCAMP created in 1996. Also included in their notable projects are the Power Glove, which is a prototype motorized spacesuit glove which aims to reduce hand fatigue on astronauts, the simplified neutral buoyancy spacesuit MX-2 Suit used in EVA Research, and the TSUNAMI, which is an apparatus to test human neuromuscular adaptation in various gravitational fields and diverse simulations of weightlessness.
http://www.ssl.umd.edu/
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ISA System Engineering and Automation Department;The ISA System Engineering and Automation Department of the Universidad De Malaga in Spain is a Spanish laboratory engaged in the research of multi-robot systems, mobile robotics, surgical robots, Telerobotics, Computer Vision, Automation, Search and Rescue, and Remote Sensing. Inside the department is a notable laboratory whose research topics include unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). This laboratory is the Laboratory of UAVs, or Aerohidrodinamica Laboratory of Unmanned Vehicles. Some of the projects conducted in the ISA System Engineering and Automation department include: the AGAVE European Project, the Robotics Assistant for exploration and Rescue Missions, CISOBOT System, Neurofuzzy Control in Chemical Process Engineering, Mobile Robot Operation in Large Scale Environment, Self-Guided Surgical Robot for Minimally Invasive Surgery, Telerobotic System for Minimally Invasive Surgery (DPI), the Teleoperation and Control systems Coordinated Multirobot, and the RAMBLER. Among the robots that the department has developed includes the SANCHO, the assistant robot that is intended to work within a human environment. It was developed with a pioneer 3DX base, in which various elements are located. This robot was designed to have a sensorial system which is basically composed of a radial laser scanner, 10 sets of IR sensors, a colored motorized camera, a pair of speakers, a microphone and a screen. This robot can be manipulated through a wireless Ethernet. The department has also come up with the SENA robot, which is a robotic wheelchair powered with various sensors that allow a reliably high level of performance in office-like environments. Also designed by this department is the Auriga robot, the Aurora, and the RAM-2 robot, which is a type of mobile robot intended to control and deliver objects. Laser scanners, IR sensors and CCD camera have also been installed on the RAM-2 robot.
http://www.isa.uma.es/default.aspx
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USA
Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, Vanderbilt University;At Vanderbilt University’s School of Engineering, the Center for Intelligent Systems showcases the school’s capability to advance state-of-the-art intelligent systems using research and development of intelligent-embodied agents like autonomous robots. Here, two research laboratories are housed: the Cognitive Robotics Lab and the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory. The latter, which is the IRL at Vanderbilt University, deals mainly with the research on mobile robotics. Here, operational robots like the ATRV-Jr. (a Scooter robot), the PIONEER2-AT and the track-driven Matilda robot are being utilized for research purposes. The ATRV-Jr has sonar, lidar, compass and DGPS sensors along with pan-tilt vision system, while the Pioneer2-AT comes with sonar and a 360 degree camera. The Matilda robot, on the other hand, is equipped with an omni-directional camera, a sonar sensors and inclinometers. At the IRL, research regarding mobile robots is usually done with the human controller or user located at distant, remote spot. This is to show how the robot can fully understand what its operator wants it to do, communicate and know the details of the task being required from it. The lab is also looking for various ways to facilitate natural communication of information about location and navigation. The lab’s Egocentric Navigation, or ENav algorithm, is based on the utilization of angular distribution of landmarks, topography, giving actual descriptions of the machine’s current location, and its target location. Currently, the laboratory is geared toward the study of Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs), as well as its research of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), integrating the two systems for various applications that could someday be useful for people. Its latest research also includes biologically-inspired, adaptive working memory systems for efficient robot manipulation and learning, called working memory.
http://eecs.vanderbilt.edu/CIS/IRL/
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Founded date unknown
Singapore
Please visit the Nanyang Technological University web site for more information.
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/
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Germany
Rhino: Intelligent Autonomous Systems;Spearheaded and founded by Professor Armin Cremers, the Rhino: Intelligent Autonomous Systems, which is part of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Bonn, studies the design of intelligent robotic and software agents. It was established in January, 1994, by Professor Cremers, together with Professors Joachim Buhmann and Sebastian Thrun, and was named then as the RHINO-Project. The group aims to make the next generation of intelligent robotic and software agents better, especially in the three aspects. First, it aims to make a robot capable of successfully carrying out multiple, diverse, and possibly interfering tasks in changing and unknown surroundings. Secondly, they plan to improve the performance of such robots by autonomously adapting their control software for the type of tasks they are commanded to perform, and the environments that they are tasked to operate to. Lastly, they envision that robots can robustly perceive a substantially bigger part of their surroundings. The group believes that these three objectives can be achieved by making robots capable of planning their intended course of action based on anticipation, and making them capable of autonomously learning better control patterns based on their experience. To make this possible, the Rhino: Intelligent Autonomous Systems intensively performs researches on the following fields, Autonomous Robotics Agents, Autonomous Robot Learning, Indoor Surveillance with Mobile Robots, Object Tracking with Mobile Robots, and the Robot Action Planning. Among the robots that the group has launched to date are the RHINO and Minerva robots. Both were installed as tour guides, one in the Deutsches Museum Bonn, Germany and the other in the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC. The group’s goal with these robots is to make them closer to people, and to make a point that with the progress in the field of robotics and in artificial intelligence, robots can operate reliably even in crowded areas.
http://www.iai.uni-bonn.de/~rhino/
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USA
The Intelligent Systems and Robotics Center;The Intelligent Systems and Robotics Center (ISRC) inside the Sandia National Laboratories is responsible for developing various technologies in order to execute a vast array of tasks, including defense manufacturing, materials handling, and environmental remediation up to combat zone applications. The ISRC also designs and creates mobile robotics systems, with tasks built to carry out dangerous missions or operations that are deemed difficult or perilous for humans to undertake. Helping the ISRC is Sandia National Lab, which is directly involved in developing the “brain” or the software for the center’s robotic systems. The lab also helped the ISRC by creating the eyes or sensors, and integrating it with the hardware and mechanical components. This includes not only micromachines, but also macro-sized automated systems in order to create the robotic systems and make them fully functional. The center is the leader in developing and creating miniature and macro-sized teleoperated and autonomous vehicles which can be used for military and industrial applications. They also research unique and intelligent mobile systems that are applicable for such tasks as environmental clean-ups and battlefield applications. Among the many projects that the ISRC have developed includes the ARMMS, short for Accident Response Mobile Manipulator System, which is aimed towards helping people, especially in high risk or dangerous missions like recovering hazardous materials. This sophisticated response unit helps in salvage and recovery efforts of people, putting them away from harm’s way. Equipped with driving cameras and Portable Integrated Video Systems, this machine can be driven like a regular Humvee, which is also the basic platform. It is equipped with a one meter accuracy GPS, Two Schilling Titanium Manipulator arms, and computer controlled manipulator arm operation. Other projects that the ISRC have successfully developed are the Dixie, the Fire Ant, Hoppers, MARV, Marvin, M 2,the Mine Robot, Perimeter Detection, RATLER TM, Fuel Cell RATLER TM, SandDragon robot, SARGE, Small Smart Machines, and the Swarm robot. With more than 26 years of experience combined with their various projects, which includes successful projects involving designing, developing and delivering complex automated systems, the Center continues to respond to the challenges impacting the country’s security and economic competitiveness. With the opening of Sandia’s newest state-of-the-art facilities, industries involved in manufacturing, environmental cleanup, arms productions, as well as others that have automation needs, will surely benefit from its research and projects.
http://robotics.sandia.gov/
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Mexico
QOLbotics is a startup focused to create QOL robotics solutions with a social philosophy behind.
http://hellospoonrobot.com/
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Japan
Mecha Trucks Corporation is a robotics company with expertise in areas such as electronic circuits, software and mechanisms.
http://www.mechatrax.com/
Private Company
Founded 2008
Switzerland
Arimaz SA is specialized in entertainment robotics and interactive toy applications. We develop and market communicating mobile robots.
http://www.arimaz.com/
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Founded date unknown
Japan
Yukai Engineering is a robotics venture that operates with the motto, "Robotics for Fun Living". We provide comprehensive support for concept design, prototyping, mass production, and market development of robots and IoT products.
http://www.ux-xu.com/
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Founded 1999
USA
Iguana Robotics translates fundamental research into practical technology. They also apply technology to address problems in social and biological fields.
http://www.iguana-robotics.com/
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Founded date unknown
Switzerland
ETHZ Institute of Robotics The Institute of Robotics emerged from the Institute of Mechanics back in January of 1991. It was once a member of the Mechatronics Group of Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, where they conduct intensive research on nanotechnolgy, and on the dynamic of controlled mechanical system which is divided into two areas, robotics and magnetic bearings. Brief History;The Institute of Robotics was a part of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) based in Switzerland. In January of 1991, the institute emerged from the Institute of Mechanics and was then headed by Professor Dr. Gerhard Schweitzer. During this time, the new institute joined in various interdisciplinary Mechatronics Group in Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Here, students performed research on the dynamics of controlled mechanical system but within the boundary of mechatronics. In 1990, the International Center for magnetic Bearings was established, which was a spinoff of the company specializing in industrial application of magnetic bearings founded two years earlier, the MECOS Traxler. In 1995, the institute focused on the research at the nanometer scale upon the resumption of Prof. Dr. Andreas Stemmer who joined the institute during this time. Six years later, the nanotechnology group became independent under the department of mechanical and process engineering. From Institute of Robotics to IRIS;In October of 2002, Dr. Schweitzer was replaced by Dr. Bradley J. Nelson of the University of Minnesota, USA, and the Institute of Robotics was replaced by the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems or IRIS. Here, the laboratory clearly focuses on the rising field of micro and non-robotics, developing and creating tools that enables them to produce devices, and does research to allow the use of micro and nano-robotics for biomedicine. Until 2007, the new robotics lab was made up of a single laboratory, the MultiScale Robotics Lab, responsible for researching robotics at a smaller degree. Since then, the lab continuously grew with the addition of new independent labs like the Autonomous Systems Lab, Sensory-Motor Systems Lab, Rehabilitation Engineering Lab, Bio-Inspired Robotics Laboratory and Agile & Dexterous Robotics Lab, among others, each having their own robotic projects to show off. The Agile & Dexterous Robotics Lab (ADRL), for instance, concentrates mainly on achieving robust, dynamic, agile and autonomous robotic control in un-constructed settings using model based control, force and impedance manipulation, and applied machine learning, with function to mobile control, grasping, legged locomotion, prosthetics, field robotics and biologically inspired robotics.
http://www.ifr.mavt.ethz.ch/
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Switzerland
The Robocup Federation is an international organisation that promotes and stimulates robotics technology worldwide using competitions, exhibitions and symposia. The organisation is most famous for the yearly RoboCup games which is the largest international robotics event in the world. The main competitions during this event are RoboCup Soccer, RoboCup Rescue, RoboCup@Home and RoboCup Junior.
http://www.robocup.org/
University
Founded 1900
USA
Starting out as the Carnegie Technical Schools in 1900, the Carnegie Mellon University is one of America’s top private research institutions. The institute then changed its name to Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1912 and offered four-year degree programs. Later, in 1967, it merged with the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, thereby becoming the Carnegie Mellon University. Today, the school is composed of seven colleges and several independent schools. The university ranks in the top 30 international universities. The university’s graduate program in computer science is ranked first, while its undergraduate engineering program is ranked 7 th overall. Aside from its various colleges and schools, CMU also has notable research facilities, laboratories, institutes, and centers. One of these labs is the Robotics Institute which was founded back in 1979 and has conducted basic and applied research in the field of robotics technologies. It is the first robotics department in any American university and is involved in various projects, including the six legged Chiara robot that is an open source educational robot. Another robot is the CHIMP or the CMU Intelligent Mobile Platform robot which is a human-sized robot that was able to clear obstacles, open valves and even cut through walls at the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trails 2013.
http://www.cmu.edu/
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Founded date unknown
USA
Vision and Robotics Research, University of Rochester;The Vision and Robotics Research at the University of Rochester is designed to support research on anthropomorphic robotic systems, interaction between human and machine, and human performance. Here, researchers bothered by a wide array of topics and applications managed to unify all these projects and focus on techniques that require little or no calibration, and as a result makes them suitable to use in natural everyday environments. This laboratory also focuses on the use of advanced vision and virtual reality techniques in psychophysics experiments in order to study the human brain and man’s visual system. In one of their projects, researchers headed by Mary Hayhoe and Dana Ballard studied human visual attention and short term memory in a virtual world where objects are made to appear and disappear, change its color in real time manipulated by the gaze direction of the human subject. Some of the projects that the Vision and Robotics Research have done in the past includes Calibration-free robotics utilizing intelligent sensing, Augmenting and synthesizing images and movies, Recognizing objects, faces, and activities without geometric models, Visual navigation and mobile robots, Computer vision algorithms, and Virtual Reality Applications, among others. A vital feature of this laboratory is its capability to utilize a multiprocessor as its central computing resource and at the same its host. These are so fast and efficient that they can compete with the performance of special purpose frame rate pipelines. The multiprocessor can also allow real asynchronous parallelism that is vital for simultaneous and cooperating motor control and visual sensing. The Vision and Robotics Research in the University of Rochester was also a recipient of NASA’s “Cool Robot of the Week” award.
http://www.cs.rochester.edu/research/robotics.html
Research Institute
Founded date unknown
Netherlands
The TU Delft Robotics Institute aims at directing the TU Delft’s research towards the field of robotics. The aim of the institute is to introduce new and original robotics technologies that will enable humans and robots to work together in uncontrolled, unpredictable, real-life situations outside of the controlled industrial environment. In order to achieve this they coordinate and perform research involving multiple academic disciplines to address all the aspects of modern robotics, including the non-technical aspects. Both the hard * and the soft * robot disciplines are very well established at the university which makes TU Delft the leading center for robotics research in the Netherlands. By combining these disciplines into one central Institute the research will be very efficient, resulting in reliable and productive robot systems. Examples of areas of expertise are human-robot interaction, cybernetics, machine learning, bio-inspired robot design, functional decomposition, spatial presence and autonomous control. The institute has chosen to structure their research around three major research themes;Interactive Swarms: robots for supported living and diagnostics. Robot Swarms: collaborating UAVs and satellites for ship tracing, pollution and traffic monitoring;Robots That Work: distributed interactive work support, e.g. for robot support in warehousing, greenhouses and food production;Since the main objective of the TU Delft Robotics Institute is to use their knowledge infrastructure to achieve more in the field of robotics, the institute participates in a series of joint activities with companies and other universities, including joint research, collaborative experimental infrastructure, joint exposure at a national and international level as well as coordinated project proposals and joint platforms for industrial collaboration. * Explanations;‘hard’ robot disciplines: mechatronics, artificial intelligence, embedded systems, control, etc. ‘soft’ robot disciplines: man-machine systems, user interaction, architecture and living environments, ethics, etc.
https://tudelftroboticsinstitute.nl/