Established in 1979 to conduct basic and applied research in robotics technologies relevant to industrial and societal tasks. Site includes links to a wide range of specific robots and labs. http://www.ri.cmu.edu/
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. http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/leglab/
Standford University lab specializing in telemanipulation with haptic feedback, biomimetic robots, and other tactile and haptic research. http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/Touch/
University of California at Berkeley. Research topics include medical robotics, adaptation and learning, micromechanical flying insects, micro-robotics, and aerobots. http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/
Research efforts are directed towards visual perception of static and dynamic characteristics of the 3-D world (depth, shape, color, motion), object tracking, robot navigation and behaviour modelling. http://www.ics.forth.gr/cvrl/
A research group focusing on the development of intelligent, modular, and reconfigurable robotics and automation systems. http://www.robotics.utexas.edu/rrg/
Performs development, integration, and demonstration of innovative robotics and automation technologies, supporting NASA missions and addressing other problems of national importance. http://robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/
Research topics include ambulatory robotics, mobile robotics, artificial perception, haptics, industrial automation, motor vision, and shape analysis. http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/
home for researchers in the Stanford Computer Science Department whose primary research focus is Artificial Intelligence. Specializes in including manipulation, machine learning, navigation, vision, tactile sensing, and reasoning. http://ai.stanford.edu/
Research topics include active vision, visual geometry, pattern analysis, machine learning, sonar imaging, sensor systems, and artificial neural networks. http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/