| 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, go |
| 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 Vancouve |
| Intelligent_Robotics_Research_Centre_(IRRC) The IRRC at Monash University in Australia conducts research primarily in mobile robot navigation, machine perception and manipulation. |
| 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 r |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 infor |
| 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. |
| Laval_University_Robotics_Laboratory Mainly focused on the study of parallel mechanisms and articulated robotic hands. |
| 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 co |
| 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. |
| Lund_University,_Division_of_Robotics Research includes development of simulation tools to improve the performance of industrial and service robotics. |
| LUT_Robotics_&_Automation_Department Luleå University of Technology group specializing in telerobotics and models and algorithms for controlling the motion of robots using geometrical sensors. |
| Machine_Intelligence_Lab University of Cambridge Department of Engineering research group. Specializes in computer vision, speech processing, and pattern recognition. |
| 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 sp |
| Manchester_Robotics University of Manchester, Department of Computer Science group specializing in medical robotics, mobile robots, walking robots, sociable robotics, and evolutionary robotics. |
| 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_Ames_Intelligent_Robotics_Group Dedicated to enabling humans and robots to explore and learn about extreme environments, remote locations and uncharted worlds. This group specializes in computer vision, human-robot interaction, mobi |
| 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 ag |
| NASA_Space_Telerobotics_Program NASA group responsible for robotics and planetary rover research for the agency prior to 1997. |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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HomeAdaptive Robotics Adaptive robotics is one of the many advanced programs where INL integrates science and engineering to provide innovative solutions to some of the nation’s most pressing technical problems. Find out more about how the INL uses robotics: Creating a Robot Colony Science Fiction Becomes Science Reality UAVs Take Flight Over Idaho OverviewThe 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. These robots operate from a wide variety of platforms — from all-terrain vehicles to submersible robots or even whole colonies or "swarms" of interactive robots, each smaller than a human hand. The trait common to all these systems is the ability to share initiatively between human and machine, permitting the system to cope with interruptions in communication links, component failures, and changes in operator workload, resources, and mission requirements.
This robot detects and measures gamma radiation, preventing human exposure.Because machine intelligence and adaptation begin with robust real-world sensing, the INL focus is on developing sensor–rich robots and fusion algorithms that enable the robots to fully “experience” and “understand” the environment. Toward that end, a team of INL scientists, engineers and support workers strive to improve the sensing and processing systems that robots use. The team aims to broaden robotic capabilities. INL–engineered robotic systems combine refined sensing capabilities with one or more mechanical means to respond. Examples are the robots’ ability to maneuver in difficult environments or to selectively relay critical information to other robots or human controllers.
A HEPA filtered vacuum cleaner robot can clean up dangerous wastes remotely, without the need for human exposure.At the INL and other DOE sites, remote characterization of hazardous environments (e.g., high radiation areas, chemically contaminated areas, and unknown environments) is a pressing application area where the need for this research is acute. Manual work within hazardous environments is slow and expensive. Worker efficiency is low because of requirements for wearing protective clothing and, in some cases, exposure limits that require work to be accomplished in several–minute intervals. Even when exposure limits are not an issue, confined spaces, the encumbrances of protective clothing, and the highly repetitive nature of certain tasks induce fatigue.The INL is taking steps toward functional objectives set down in the Department of Energy Critical Technology Roadmap including a personnel radiation exposure reduction of 90 percent, a secondary waste reduction of 75 percent and a productivity increase of 200 percent for the DOE’s Office of Environmental Management (EM).1 This INL research will produce a wide spectrum of benefits, including robots for decontamination and decommissioning, environmental monitoring, long–term stewardship, military applications, manufacturing and commercial applications, homeland defense and critical infrastructure protection, and urban search–and–rescue uses.
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