GENERAL  INFORMATION ONLINE  ROBOTICS  DEMOS ROBOT  SIMS ROBOTICS  LABORATORIES ROBOT  KITS,  PARTS,  ETC. ROBOTICS  ORGANIZATIONS,  ASSOCIATIONS,  COMPETITIONS ROBOTICS  MAGAZINES  AND  JOURNALS ROBOTICS  BOOKS  AND  REFERENCES ROBOTICS  CONFERENCES ROBOT  MANUFACTURERS USENET  GROUPS GENERAL INFORMATION The Robotics FAQ from CMU's Field Robotics Center (part of CMU's Robotics Institute) "Get a Grip on Robotics" (Teaser) from The Tech Museum of Innovation "Robots Gallery" from The Computer Museum Network Robotics information and archives from CMU's Artificial Intelligence Repository ONLINE ROBOTICS DEMOS Robotic Telescope hosted by the University of Bradford, UK Khep On The Web, control a Khepera robot situated in Lausanne hosted by the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Australia's Telerobot on the Web hosted by the University of Western Australia in Perth, Australia Germany's Net-Robot hosted by Fachhochschule Konstanz (FHK), Konstanz University of Applied Science, Germany Rhino, robotic tourguide for the Deutsches Museum in Bonn hosted by University of Bonn Telegarden, robotic garden sponsored by the University of Southern California (USC) and the Ars Electronica Center (AEC) in Austria Robotoy hosted by the University of Wollongong in Australia Xavier hosted by the Learning Robots Lab (LRL) at CMU's Robotics Institute ROBOT SIMS EASY-ROB Robot Simulation Tool Mars Pathfinder Sojourner rover simulation system by the Web Interface for Telescience (WITS) ROBOTICS LABORATORIES GOVERNMENT NASA's Research Labs and Programs Ames Research Center's (ARC) Information Sciences and Technology Directorate (InfoTech) Jet Propulsion Laboratory's (JPL) Robotics Johnson Space Center (JSC) Technology for Human/Robotic Exploration and Development of Space (THREADS) Space Telerobotics Program (STP) Robotics at the Space and Naval Warfare (SPAWAR) Systems Center, San Diego REGIONAL Cal Tech Robotics Lab Standford University's Robotics Lab University of California at Berkeley - Labs Human Engineering Laboratory Robotics and Intelligent Machines Laboratory USC's Robotics Research Lab NATIONAL MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) Vanderbilt University's Intelligent Robotics Lab(IRL) INTERNATIONAL Centre for Intelligent Machines (CIM) at McGill University, Canada ROBOT KITS, PARTS, ETC. Arrick Robotics - PC-based motion control systems and robots fishertechnik - electro-mechanical parts, switches, relays, slip rings, contacts, etc. Joker Robotics The K-Robot Family KISS Institute for Practical Robotics (KIPR) Kytron autonomous mobile robots Lynxmotion, Inc. robot kits Mondo-tronics' Robot Store - robot kits galore Personal Robot Technologies, Inc. Rockville Creative Learning's Science Kit Center A K Peters, Ltd.'s Rug Warrior Alltronics - electronics products The Electronic Goldmine - surplus electronics parts and kits Electronix Express - electronic components and equipment Images Company - sensors, solar engines, etc. Koala Microcontrollers Mendelsson Electronics, Co. (MECI) - surplus electronics, mechanical stock, motors, LEDs, controls, etc. Micromint, Inc. - leading supplier of single-board computers and industrial embedded controllers Parallax, Inc. - PIC development tools and BASIC stamp series of single board computers PONTECH - servo motors, stepper motors, RF modems, etc. ROBOTICS ORGANIZATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS, COMPETITIONS RobotWars Home Page Trinity College's Fire Fighting Home Robot Competition FIRST Competition For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology MicroMouse Competition at UC Davis Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) National Robotics Walking Machine Decathlon Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) Student Robotics Automation Contest Federation of International Robot-Soccer Association (FIRA) IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems (AUVS), International Aerial Robotics Competition Ground Robotics Competition Undersea Robotics Competition Dallas Personal Robotics Group (DPRG) Portland Area Robotics Society (PARTS) Seattle Robotics Society (SRS) The British Robot Association (BRA) The Robotics Industry Association (RIA) ROBOTICS MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS Circuit Cellar INK, magazine of embedded control applications Nuts & Volts Magazine Robot Science & Technology (RST) IEEE Intelligent Systems and their Applications (ISA) IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) Industrial Robot Service Robot ROBOTICS BOOKS AND REFERENCES (listed alphabetically) Joahann Borenstein, H.R. Everett, and Liquang Feng. 1996. Navigating Mobile Robots: Systems and Techniques, A.K. Peters, Wellesley, MA. James M. Conrad and Jonathan Mills. 1998. Stiquito: A Simple and Inexpensive Robot That You Can Build, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA. James M. Conrad and Jonathan Mills. 1997. Stiquito: Advanced Experiments with a Simple and Inexpensive Robot, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA. John J. Craig. 1989. Introduction to Robotics, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA. Joseph L. Jones and Anita M. Flynn. 1993. Mobile Robots: Inspiration to Implementation, A.K. Peters, Wellesley, MA. Phillip J. McKerrow. 1991. Introduction to Robotics, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA. R. M. Murray, Z. X. Li, and S. S. Sastry. 1994. A Mathematical Introduction to Robotic Manipulation, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. Y. F. Zheng (Ed.). 1993. Recent Trends in Mobile Robots, World Scientific, New Jersey. (Written by the members of the Mobile Robots Technical Committee of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.) ROBOTICS CONFERENCES (listed by date) 2004 MIC'04 23rd IASTED International Conference on Modelling, Identification, and Control, Grindelwald, Switzerland, February 23-25, 2004. IAS'04 8th Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March 10-13, 2004. DARES'04 4th International Workshop on Distributed Auto-adaptive and Reconfigurable Systems, Tokyo, Japan, March 23-26, 2004 (in conjunction with ICDCS'04). ISR'04 35th International Symposium on Robotics, Paris, France, March 23-26, 2004. ICRA'04 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, April 26-May 1, 2004. IS'04 IEEE International Conference Intelligent Systems, Varna, Bulgaria, June 22-24, 2004. IAV'04 5th IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles, Lisbon, Portugal, July 5-7, 2004. SAB'04 8th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, Los Angeles, CA, USA, July 13-17, 2004. ICINCO'04 1st International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, Setubal, Portugal, August 25-28, 2004. IROS'04 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Sendai, Japan, September 28-October 2, 2004. 2005 ICRA'05 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Barcelona, Spain, April 18-22, 2005. BIOROB First IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, Pisa, Italy, 2005. ICAR'05 The 12th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, Seattle, WA, USA, July 17-20, 2005. ROBOT MANUFACTURERS Deneb Robotics Honda's "Human" Robot Honeybee Robotics, Ltd. IS Robotics Robot Simulations, Ltd. R.O.V. Technologies, Inc. Stanford Research Institute (SRI) Robotics USENET GROUPS Usenet: comp.arch.embedded Usenet: comp.realtime Usenet: comp.robotics Usenet: comp.robotics.misc Usenet: comp.robotics.research Usenet: sci.electronics.components Usenet: sci.electronics.design Usenet: sci.electronics.equipment Intelligent Systems Lab CSU, Chico Corner 1st and Warner Chico, CA 95929-0410 530 898-4619 gotbots AT csuChico DOT edu Intelligent Systems Laboratory O'Connell Technology Center, OCNL 244A Copyright © 2003-2006 California State University, Chico. All rights reserved. Last update 04/11/06