Researches ways in which autonomous robots - large and small; walking, climbing and flying - can be developed to 'do the right thing at the right time'.

Robotics Research department of The Sharif University of Technology, Iran.

Specialties include 3D object recognition, vision-guided navigation for indoor mobile robots, task and assembly planning.

Research topics include human-robot teams, human-robot interface, mobile robot navigation, range-free perception-based navigation, sensory egospheres, and vision/image processing systems.

A discontinued group at University of Kaiserslautern that specialized in mobile robots, 3D sonar sensing, and 3D scanning.

Mainly focused on the study of parallel mechanisms and articulated robotic hands.

Located at the University of Minnesota, research includes the coordination and deployment of multi-robot teams in various applications.

Research topics include Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), mini Air Vehicles (mAVs), Remotely Piloted Vehicles (RPVs), Self Piloted Vehicles (SPVs), and other robotic aircraft.

Research topics include dynamic systems, fabrication of novel robots, rehabilitation robotics, and precision farming machines.

University of Illinois at Chicago group specializing in robot control, haptics, mobile robotics, computer vision.