| UB_Robotics UBR is based at SUNY at Buffalo, in Buffalo, New York, United States. Founded in 1998. Membership is open to University at Buffalo undergraduate students. Site include projects, photos, and meeting in |
| The_UK_Cybernetics_Club An online collective based in the United Kingdom. Membership is open to anyone interested in intelligent mobile robots. |
| Union_College_Robotics_Club A campus club open to students of Union College in Schenectady, New York, United States. UCRC annually designs a robot for competition. Site includes project photos, mailing list, and meeting minutes. |
| University_of_Arizona_Micro_Air_Vehicle_Club Student group that develops Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs), tiny radio-controlled or autonomous robot aircraft. Meets weekly on UA campus. |
| University_of_Illinois_at_Chicago_Engineering_Design_Team Based in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Founded in 2000. The UIC EDT is open to students of UIC and holds weekly meetings on campus. Site includes a project list, meeting schedule, and mailing list |
| University_of_Toronto_Robotics_Association The University of Toronto Robotics Association (UTRA) is primarily interested in designing and constructing competitive robots for competition in BattleBots and other similar events. |
| Vancouver_Island_Robotics Based in Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. The site includes meeting information and a mailing list. |
| Vancouver_Robotics_Club Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The club holds monthly meetings. Site includes meeting calendar and mailing list. |
| Waterloo_Aerial_Robotics_Group Based at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. WARG was founded in 1997 and has the goal of developing autonomous air and ground robots. Membership is open to UW students. Site includes meeti |
| Western_Canadian_Robotics_Society Based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Founded in 2001. WCRS holds monthly meetings at the SAIT campus and puts on the annual Western Canadian Robot Games. Site includes photos, general information and a |
| Ypsilanti_and_Ann_Arbor_Area_Robotics_Club YAAARC holds monthly meetings in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Site includes robot news, mailing list, discussion forums, and technical articles. |
| Ackermann,_Jürgen Former director of the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics at the German Aerospace Center. |
| Anders\'_Mindstorms_page Showcases a variety of Ander's Mindstorms projects including a Yatzymatic, a Pinball machine and a cooler. Site also include information on Mindstorms programming and sensors. |
| Anderson,_David_P_ Director of the SMU Geophysical Imaging Lab. Member of the Dallas Personal Robotics Group. Site includes detailed descriptions and photos of his autonomous robots including nBot, a two-wheeled balanci |
| Aquaticus_ROV Description of a homebuilt underwater robot. |
| Arkin,_Ronald Regents' Professor and Director of the Mobile Robot Laboratory at Georgia Institute of Technology. Interests include behavior-based reactive control, robot survivability, multi-agent systems, biorobot |
| Astolfi,_Alessandro Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Centre for Process Systems Engineering, Imperial College, London. Interests in Control Theory. |
| Balancing_Robot A biped robot capable of standing up on its own from a fallen position. |
| Barlas,_Omar A hobby robot that can pick up and move small objects. |
| B9Creations Mike Joyce's construction journal describing his progress on a full size replica of the "Lost in Space" B9 Robot and other homebrew robots. |
| Birk,_Andreas Professor heading robotics research at the International University Bremen (IUB). |
| Borenstein,_J_ Research Scientist and Head of the Mobile Robotics Lab within the University of Michigan's Department of Mechanical Engineering. Interests in mobile robots, obstacle avoidance, odometry, positionin |
| Brooks,_Rodney Director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. |
| Bryan\'s_Robotics_Journal Weblog detailing Bryan's experiences designing and building his robot. |
| Burgard,_Wolfram Professor of Computer Science at the University of Freiburg and head of the research lab for Autonomous Intelligent Systems. Areas of interest lie in Artificial Intelligence and mobile robots. |
| Byrne,_Jeffrey Jeff Byrne is a robotics and computer vision professional, working on image segmentation, image aided navigation and visual collision obstacle detection for unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned g |
| Chladny,_Ryan Describes Ryan's work on a large, hydraulic, autonomous, robotic vehicle. Includes related pictures and links. |
| Christensen,_Henrik_I_ Professor of computer science at Kungl Tekniska Högskolan, Stockholm. Areas of interest include mobile robotics, autonomous systems, computer vision and biologically inspired robot systems. |
| Christoph\'s_Rug_Warrior_Page Tips and schematics to build your own Rug Warrior Robot. |
| Corky\'z_Robotz A small, remote-controlled robot made from a BASIC Stamp and common parts. Includes instructions, schematic and code listing. |
| Cricket_the_Robot Information on building an autonomous, walking robot. Includes schematics and code. |
| DaVinci_Robotics_Educational_Foundation Learn about the group's various robot projects. Also includes advice for those who wish to build robots. |
| Davison,_Andrew_J_ Lecturer in Computing at Imperial College London, carrying out research in real-time computer vision, robotics and SLAM. |
| Dillmann,_Rüdiger Professor at the Universität Karlsruhe with research interests in mobile systems, medical applications, interactive learning and humanoids. |
| Dratrobotics Photos and descriptions of the author's projects and robots, many of which are based on Lego Mindstorms. |
| Duckett,_T_ Researcher in Autonomous Sensor Systems. Assistant Professor at the Centre for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems at Örebro University in Sweden. Research interests include autonomous robots, machine |
| Dudek_,_G_ Professor at the School of Computer Science and Centre for Intelligent Machines (CIM). Research areas include navigation, shape, mobile robotics, computer vision, vision, visualization, and recognitio |
| Elners,_Tom BEAM robots, hexapods, mini sumo, light seekers and circuits. |
| Four_Legged_Walker Walking robot using a BASIC Stamp 2SX and two Mini SSC servo controllers to control 12 servos. |
| Fox,_D_ Assistant Professor at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington. His research interests lie in artificial intelligence and its application to mobile robotics, believing |
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January and February meeting locations will be temporarily changed;
more information coming later...
Workshop Robot Level 1 classes are scheduled for
(November 22,) December 6th, and December 13th. Please see the
Workshops page for details
and information on registering.
Meetings
Our regular meetings are at 10am on the third
Saturday of each month at Renton
Technical College. After the meetings we typically head out for pizza;
specific details about lunch are on the
meetings page.
Below are the planned presentations for upcoming meetings. The
Presentations page contains an archive
of presenters and their topics.
December 20, 2008
Robot Sensors -
Steven Kaehler will present on robot sensors, what they are, how they work, where to get
them, and talk about robot localization methods.
January 17, 2009
Technology at Seatac Airport -
Wally Wesson, Team Leader of the Port of Seattle BDU group, will do a
demonstration and discussion on their Hazardous Duty Robot.
The Port's robot is a product of
REMOTEC,
a Northrup Grummen subsidiary. Their unit is comparible to a current Model F6A.
Other Hazardous Duty Robots are available from
Allen Vanguard: Vanguard and Defender;
iRobot: Pacbot and R-Gator;
Mesa Associates; and
Foster Miller: Talon.
Some of these types of robots are only available for purchase by police,
security, and military organizations.
February 21, 2009
Tesla Roadster - Tom and Cathy Saxton will present on the
Tesla Roadster, a battery-powered electric vehicle.
March 21, 2009
"SuperBird 1.00" controller -
Professor Bruce Hemingway
will talk about the "SuperBird 1.00" controller and computer soccer.
April 18, 2009
Assistive and Rehabilitation Technology -
Yoky Matsuoka will talk about
her research into future assistive and rehabilitation technology by merging robotics and
neuroscience.
Search
for "Yoky Matsuoka" at
SeattleTimes.com to find articles about her
research, including her recent
attendance
at the Neural Engineering Workshop.
May 16, 2009
FIRST Robotics Competition -
Local FIRST Robotics
Competition (FRC) Teams are invited to come show their robots, explain the 2009
competition, and describe the challenges they faced this year.
June 20, 2009
Robotic Interface in Performance Measurement and Assessment -
Professor Mika N. Sinanan,
MD, PhD, (President, University of Washington Physicians Professor of Surgery) will present on
the role of a robotic interface in performance measurement and assessment.
July 18, 2009
Brain-Robot Interfaces -
Professor Rajesh Rao,
Associate Professor at UW (CS department) will talk about brain-robot interfaces.
Monday Night Chat
The Seattle Robotics Society hosts a "Monday Night Chat"
each week at 7pm Pacific Time. Details are on
the Contact Us page.
