IRIS is a University of Southern California group with a focus on molecular robotics, MEMS, programmable automation, computer vision, and mobile robots. http://iris.usc.edu/iris.html
Sandia National Lab group specializing in robotic vehicles, collective behavior for controller robot swarms, military robotic systems analysis, and massively parallel robot simulations. http://www.sandia.gov/isrc/
Part of the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland. The primary goal of this lab is to advance the state-of-the art in the design and real-time control of smart systems such as robots and automated vehicles. http://www.isr.umd.edu/Labs/ISL/isl.html
University of Tokyo research lab. Research project include various humanoid robots, soft-spine robots, artificial skin, gel robots, and motion planning. http://www.jsk.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/
Research on design, modeling, control, and optimization methodologies for self-organized, collectively intelligent, distributed systems with special emphasis on multi-robot platforms, sensor and actuator networks, and intelligent vehicles. http://swis.epfl.ch/
University of British Columbia group specializing in decision-making, planning, reasoning, learning, object recognition, automation, mobile robotics, telerobotics, remote sensing, and geographic information systems. http://www.cs.ubc.ca/nest/lci/
Research topics include human-robot teams, human-robot interface, mobile robot navigation, range-free perception-based navigation, sensory egospheres, and vision/image processing systems. http://eecs.vanderbilt.edu/CIS/IRL/
Helsinki University of Technology group specializing in mechatronics, perception, navigation, legged machines, and mobile robot societies. http://www.automation.hut.fi/
Research areas include software agents, mobile robots, sensor-based navigation, and biomimetic robotics. Site in multiple languages. http://www.ais.fraunhofer.de/index.en.html
Part of the University of Southern California Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems. Research includes multi-robot interaction, coordination, and communication; humanoid robotics; and software development. http://www-robotics.usc.edu/