There are many researchers, practitioners and enthusiasts in the field of robotics that develop or investigate mobile robots or manipulators, addressing challenging problems, algorithms, methods, software and hardware. The sites in this category are a showcase of their hard work. 1. 1337 Robotics - Descriptions and photos of robotics projects created by MrZebra, Mandark and Graz. Site also includes a resource listing and a tutorial on ultrasonics. 2. 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. 3. Anderson, David P. NEW! - 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 balancing robot. 4. B9Creations NEW! - Mike Joyce's construction journal describing his progress on a full size replica of the "Lost in Space" B9 Robot and other homebrew robots. 5. 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, positioning, and the GuideCane for the Blind. 6. Brad Lewis Robot and Telerobot Information Page - Brad's home page is also a robotics portal site that specializes in telerobotics, microcontrollers, and robotics programming. 7. Bryan's Robotics Journal - Weblog detailing Bryan's experiences designing and building his robot. 8. 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. 9. Chladny, Ryan NEW! - Describes Ryan's work on a large, hydraulic, autonomous, robotic vehicle. Includes related pictures and links. 10. Christoph's Rug Warrior Page - Tips and schematics to build your own Rug Warrior Robot. 11. Corky'z Robotz - A small, remote-controlled robot made from a BASIC Stamp and common parts. Includes instructions, schematic and code listing. 12. Cricket the Robot - Information on building an autonomous, walking robot. Includes schematics and code. 13. DaVinci Robotics Educational Foundation - Learn about the group's various robot projects. Also includes advice for those who wish to build robots. 14. Dratrobotics NEW! - Photos and descriptions of the author's projects and robots, many of which are based on Lego Mindstorms. 15. 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 learning and neural networks, artificial intelligence, navigation systems, and biologically inspired sensor systems. 16. 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 recognition. 17. Hardt, Michael - Systems and System Optimization, Department of Computer Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt. Interests include hybrid dynamical systems, control and stability of legged locomotion, nonlinear optimal control, multibody kinematics and dynamics. 18. HexWorks - A site about Hamlet, an hexapod autonomous robot. 19. Hirzinger, Gerd - Director, Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, DLR German Aerospace Center. 20. Hudson, Trammell NEW! - Provides information on his work with the Autopilot UAV flight control project and links to other robotics sites. 21. John's Robotics Page - Information on robotics in general and the author's own robot projects. 22. JRod's Hobby Site - Photos and information on several Lego Mindstorms robots. 23. Kaelbling, L. P. - Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science MIT. Also associate director of the MIT AI Lab and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Machine Learning Research. 24. Karl William's Robotics - Various walking robot projects and other interesting electronics. 25. Kleeman, L. NEW! - Associate Professor, Department Electrical & Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University, Australia. Extensive list of online publications. 26. Koenig, S. - Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA. Research centers around techniques for decision making that enable situated agents to act intelligently in their environments, under realistic conditions. 27. Kuipers, B. - Professor and Chairman, Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin. Research interests include the representation of commonsense and expert knowledge, with an emphasis on the effective use of incomplete knowledge. Recent accomplishments include a robot exploration and mapping strategy based on qualitative recognition of distinctive places. 28. Littman, M. - Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham. 29. Liudzius, Leonas - Includes a list of robot projects, photos, parts lists, and a forum. 30. Markatronic's Computers and Robotics - Pages with various inventions using old computer components and circuit boards made by the author. 31. Mason, Matthew T. - Professor of Computer Science and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University. Conducts research on the mechanics of robots manipulation. 32. Milios, E. E. - Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, York University, Ontario. Interests include computer vision, mobile robotics, and multiagent robotics. 33. Murray, D. - Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the Laboratory for Computational Intelligence at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada. Interests include stereo vision for mobile robot navigation. 34. Nourbakhsh , I. R. - Assistant Professor of Robotics, The Robotics Institute, CMU. Interests include: formal representations of perception and action; planning with incomplete information; interleaving planning and execution; mobile robot architectures; real-time visual obstacle avoidance and navigation; robot team communication and cooperation. 35. PSU Robotics - Tony Muilenburg is a Electrical Engineering student at Portland State University, and a member of the PSU Robotics club. 36. QRIS Robotics - Michiel van Turnhout's QRIS autonomous robot project. 37. Rainwater, R. Steven NEW! - Dallas Personal Robotics Group member who builds autonomous mobile robots, operates the robots.net website, edits the dmoz.org robotics category, and maintains the Usenet Robot Competition FAQ. 38. Reconn's World: SmallBot Project - Information on an attempt to build the SmallBot robot. 39. RHA robotic team - The Amir Kabir University of Technology's robotic projects including a line tracker robot and a ball gatherer. 40. Ristow, Christian NEW! - A builder of robotic kinetic art. Site includes bio, photos, and information on shows. 41. Robo innovations by Savvas Afantenos NEW! - Lego Mindstorms robots built by Savvas, including biped and tracked robots. Photos and descriptions of each robot are included. 42. Robomarsh78 - Student robotic projects at Semnan University in Iran. Site includes papers, a photo gallery, a list of projects, and information about the members. 43. Robotic Lawnmower - The development of an autonomous robot designed to mow the lawn. 44. Robots built by Bill and Mark Sherman - Photos and descriptions of Bill and Mark's projects and robots: Rollie, Whiskers, Cambot, Balibot and Slither the snake-like robot. 45. Röfer, Thomas - Assistant professor doing research on cognitive robotics in the Krieg-Brückner group, Bremen Institute of Safe Systems (BISS), University of Bremen, Germany. Interests include control of autonomous mobile robotics, image processing, and simulation. 46. Simmons, R. - Senior Research Computer Scientist, CMU Robotics Institute, Pittsburgh. Research interests focus on developing reliable, highly autonomous systems (especially mobile robots) that operate in rich, uncertain environments. 47. Snake Robots - Features several robotic snakes. Includes photos and video clips. 48. Sparky's Bot Site - Includes specifications and videos of several walking robots. 49. Sweet Line Following Robot - Details the construction of a line following robot. Includes video clips of the vehicle. 50. The Smile Project - Experiments in human behavior and emotional responses through human-scale robots. 51. Thrun, S. NEW! - Professor of Computer Science and director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Stanford University. Thrun pursues research in robotics, probabilistic techniques and machine learning. 52. VCAR - Drive a toy car via the web with realtime streaming video. 53. von Puttkamer, E. - Head of the AG Robotik und Prozeßrechentechnik, Universität Kaiserslautern, Fachbereich Informatik, Germany. 54. Wesleys Bots - Photos of several robots made from electronic scrap. 55. Westerdale Autonomous Robot Vision Project - Simon Westerdale's project to create a vision guided robot using adaptive algorithms. Virtual maps are made of the learned environment providing an accurate guidance mechanism. 56. Weymouth, Terry E. NEW! - Associate Research Scientist, University of Michigan. 57. Williamson, David NEW! - Includes descriptions and photos of a variety of robot-related projects including robot arms, walking machines, and flying vehicles. 58. Zimmer, U. R. - Australian National University, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, and the Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering. Current research interests include spatio-temporal modelling in autonomous systems. 59. Ackermann, Jürgen - Former director of the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics at the German Aerospace Center. 60. Aquaticus ROV NEW! - Description of a homebuilt underwater robot. 61. Arkin, Ronald NEW! - 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, biorobotics, human-robot interaction and learning. 62. Astolfi, Alessandro NEW! - Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Centre for Process Systems Engineering, Imperial College, London. Interests in Control Theory. 63. Balancing Robot - A biped robot capable of standing up on its own from a fallen position. 64. Barlas, Omar NEW! - A hobby robot that can pick up and move small objects. 65. Battle Beetles - Mark Geoghegan's radio controlled beetle robots. Site includes photos and description. 66. Birk, Andreas NEW! - Professor heading robotics research at the International University Bremen (IUB). 67. Brooks, Rodney NEW! - Director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. 68. Christensen, Henrik I. NEW! - Professor of computer science at Kungl Tekniska Högskolan, Stockholm. Areas of interest include mobile robotics, autonomous systems, computer vision and biologically inspired robot systems. 69. Davison, Andrew J. NEW! - Lecturer in Computing at Imperial College London, carrying out research in real-time computer vision, robotics and SLAM. 70. Dillmann, Rüdiger NEW! - Professor at the Universität Karlsruhe with research interests in mobile systems, medical applications, interactive learning and humanoids. 71. Elners, Tom NEW! - BEAM robots, hexapods, mini sumo, light seekers and circuits. 72. Four Legged Walker - Walking robot using a BASIC Stamp 2SX and two Mini SSC servo controllers to control 12 servos. 73. 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 that building systems is an important part of research, especially in robotics. 74. Gutmann, S. - Sony Corporation, Tokyo, Japan working in the Digital Creatures Laboratory on navigation for entertainment robots. Research interests include mobile robot self-localization, map-building, object recognition using stereo vision, and robot soccer. 75. Harvey, Inman - Course directory for Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems at the University of Sussex in Brighton, United Kingdom. 76. Hotze, M. NEW! - A 3-servo hexapod with obstacle avoidance capability. Details the design, building process and programming, and shows movies. 77. I.R.BOT - A six wheeled insect inspired robot based on the AVR microcontrollers. Site includes photos, diagrams, and software and brief notes on the use of neural nets and fuzzy logic with the robot. 78. Irobotics India - Gerard Sequeira's robots. Includes information on his fire fighting robot, a golf playing robot based on the PIC16F84A, and a line following robot. 79. Kalyan, Bharath NEW! - Research interests include mobile robotics, specializing in Autonomous Underwater Vehicle navigation. Also has an interest in Nature Photography. 80. Konstantinos Akalestos' Lego Biped Robot - Shows the research and programming done for creating a walking robot that exhibits obstacle avoidance behaviour. The robot is constructed using Lego's Mindstorms and programming in C language using the BrickOS kernel. 81. Kumar, Vinodh NEW! - Showcase of his robots, Micromouse, Carrom Playing Robot and Fire Fighter, and robotics tutorials. 82. Long, Matthew T. NEW! - Researcher at CRASAR. Links to research papers and new work in artificial intelligence, the semantic web and robotics. 83. Mbah, Stephen I. NEW! - Robotics projects, including a robot head and KHR-1. 84. MHEX NEW! - An autonomous six legged walking robot controlled by a Motorola 68HC11F1. Includes photos and videos related to the project. 85. Nickols, Frank NEW! - Associate Professor of Robotics and Chair of Mechanical Engineering at Dhofar University, Oman. He has built beetle, centipede, cuttlefish, underwater eel, spider, tricycle and omni-directional robots. 86. O'Sullivan, Shane NEW! - Contains his Masters thesis on Map Building with Mobile Robots, and a map editing application. 87. Robby, a Household Robot - Proposal to build a $10000, 4 ft high, pneumatic, humanoid robot. 88. Robot Pages of Jaap Havinga - Complete descriptions for several projects including robots, a battery charger, and a CNC machine. 89. Scott's Bots NEW! - Details about Scott Preston's robot projects, including photos, descriptions, how-to guides and reviews. 90. Spero, Dorian J. NEW! - Researcher in the Intelligent Robotics Research Centre at Monash University, Australia. Interests include mobile robot navigation in natural environments, SLAM, sensing and path planning. 91. St. Lawrence College Web Robot Arm - Control a robot arm and cameras in a college classroom remotely over the web. 92. Vogler, Alexander NEW! - Descriptions, pictures, 3D-models and videos of robots V-3 (BiPed) and HR-V1 (Humanoid upper body). HR-V1 is designed to combine with a revised version of V-3. 93. von Stryk, Oscar - Simulation and Systems Optimization Group (SIM), Department of Computer Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt. 94. Wallace, Andrew A. NEW! - Photos and descriptions of both hobby and industrial robots built by the author. 95. Wenzel Electronics - Contains information and circuits for steppermotor control, dc motor pwm, robotics and micro-controllers.

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