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. http://ic-www.arc.nasa.gov/projects/ai-rovers/index.html
Luleå University of Technology group specializing in telerobotics and models and algorithms for controlling the motion of robots using geometrical sensors. http://www.sm.luth.se/csee/ra/
Topics include biological control systems, motor system control theory, biologically integrative sensors, and environment adaptive robotic systems. Site in English and Japanese. http://www.bmc.riken.go.jp/index_en.html
Russia's Central R & D Institute of Robotics and Technical Cybernetics (CRDI RTC). Research topics include robotics and cybernetics for space, air, terrestrial, and anti-terrorism applications. http://www.rtc.ru/
Current focus is on the origins of language and robotic agents. Prior research projects include a robotic fish and other mobile robots. http://arti9.vub.ac.be/
Florida International University research group specializing in teleoperation, telesensation, mechatronics, and fault-tolerant systems. http://www.eng.fiu.edu/me/robotics/
Focuses on building and testing a robot cognitive architecture. Also does research on intelligent agents for network security and intrusion detection. http://csis.pace.edu/robotlab/
Service Robotic research projects include volcano inspection robots, orange picking robots, climbing robots and microrobots. http://www.robotic.diees.unict.it/
University of Dortmund group specializing in multi-robot systems, space robotics, communication structures, and autonomously guided vehicles. http://www.irf.uni-dortmund.de/