RoboMart - The Online Robotics Store

RoboMart

Welcome to Robomart! Here you will find an excellent selection of robotics equipment and accessories.

This page was previously called Laks Robotics. It is a collection of my favorite robotics resources.

Robonaut

The image above is NASA's robotic astronaut, designed to perform maintenance on the space station.

Robonaut - http://robonaut.jsc.nasa.gov/

Perceptual Robotics

Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics - http://www-robotics.cs.umass.edu/

PERCRO - http://www.percro.org/ - Simultaneous presence, telepresence, and virtual presence.

Antonio Frisoli - http://www-percro.sssup.it/~antony/
Marcello Carrozzino - http://www-percro.sssup.it/~marcello/

BIRG

Biologically Inspired Robotics Group - http://birg.epfl.ch/

Auke Jan Ijspeert - http://birg.epfl.ch/page27899.html

USC

Michael Arbib - http://www-hbp.usc.edu/people/arbib.htm - Center for Neural Engineering and the USC Brain Project (neuroinformatics).

Industrial Robots

FANUC Robotics - http://www.fanucrobotics.com/

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms - http://www.gefanuc.com/

Faro Technologies - http://www.faro.com/ - Portable computerised measurement devices.

Georgia Tech Robotics

BORG Lab - http://borg.cc.gatech.edu/

Autonomous Robots - http://borg.cc.gatech.edu/lagr

Social Animals - http://borg.cc.gatech.edu/biotracking

Multi-robot Teams - http://borg.cc.gatech.edu/GNATS

Remotec

Remotec Unmanned Vehicle Systems - http://www.es.northropgrumman.com/remotec/

Remotec ANDROS F6A - http://www.es.northropgrumman.com/remotec/f6a.htm

Waseda University - Tokyo, Japan

Robotics Lab in their Physics Department - phys.waseda.ac.jp/shalab/robotics-e.html

Robisuke - the conversational robot - tk.elec.waseda.ac.jp

The flute playing robot, WF-4 - takanishi.mech.waseda.ac.jp/flute/

Hirose Lab

Hirose Fukushima Robotics Lab - http://www-robot.mes.titech.ac.jp/home_e.html

A little something from our friends in Korea. And you thought Samsung just made phones...

Speech Processing

Research on Understanding and Generating Dialogue by Integrated Processing of Speech, Language and Concept - http://winnie.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/taiwa/e-abst.html

ATR

ATR Spoken Language Translation Research Lab - http://www.slt.atr.co.jp/
ATR Human Information Processing Lab - http://www.hip.atr.co.jp/
Department of Humanoid Robotics and Computational Neuroscience - http://www.cns.atr.jp/hrcn/
ATR Human Information Science Laboratories

RUBOT

Check out the Rubik's cube robot on - http://www.mechatrons.com/

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering has a Field and Space Robotics Laboratory, which is good page if you are interested in the types of machines used in space exploration.

If you are interested in artificial intelligence, check out MIT's KISMET robot.

MIT is developing an electroactive polymer actuator that could theoretically react 1,000 times faster than a human muscle when exposed to a certain wavelength of light. Read the article from November 2005 on mit.edu

Dartmouth claims to have the world's smallest robot (60 micrometers x 250 micrometers). Video can be found at dartmouth.edu

Japanese robotics company, Cyberdyne Inc., has created a robotic exoskeleton called the Hybrid Assitive Limb (HAL). cyberdyne.jp

Nirvana Technology - http://www.nirvana.ne.jp/ - This Japanese robotics company that brought you the tai chi robot, is striving to build a robot that can play golf. I look forward to seeing this robogolfer battle it out with Tiger Woods on the back nine at Augusta. Fore!

UK-based AB Precision has developed the Cyclops miniature remotely operated vehicle (MROV). abprecision.co.uk

Robo-Erectus - The Humanoid Soccer Robot! http://www.robo-erectus.org/

Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories - www.irc.atr.jp

Nachi-Fujikoshi - http://www.nachi-fujikoshi.co.jp/eng/

Rotundus - http://www.rotundus.se/

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium - http://www.ieeeswarm.org/
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society - http://www.ncsu.edu/IEEE-RAS/
IEEE Computation Intelligence Society - http://ieee-cis.org/

Battlefield Extraction Assist Robot (BEAR)

Vecna Technologies - http://www.vecnarobotics.com/robotics/bear_project/index.shtml

US Army Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Centre - Frederick, Maryland - http://www.tatrc.org/

Here is a news article from BBC - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6729745.stm

International Society of Artificial Life - http://www.alife.org/

The Uncanny Valley - http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/11/kicking-it-in-the-uncanny-valley/

Actroid Robot - http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/10/actroid-robot-greets-japan-world-expo-visitors-a-bit-too/

Anybots - http://anybots.com/
RT Corporation - http://www.rt-net.jp/index.php
Surveyor Corporation - http://www.surveyor.com/
Hexapods - http://www.hexapods.net/

ASIMO

ASIMO falls down some stairs during an exhibition in Japan -

ASIMO - http://world.honda.com/ASIMO/

Honda Fundamental Technology Research Center - http://world.honda.com/RandD/wako_r/index.html

Robot (wiki)

Humanoid Robots (wiki)
Self-Reconfiguring Modular Robotics (wiki)

Cornell Computational Synthesis Lab - ccsl.mae.cornell.edu

Ubiquitous Robotics Companion Development Center - http://www.urcdc.or.kr/

International Federation of Robotics (IFR) - http://www.ifr.org/

Yujin Robotics - http://www.yujinrobot.com/

Dasarobot - http://www.dasatech.co.kr/

Mostitech - http://www.mostitech.com/

Robotis - http://www.robotis.com/

Microrobot - http://www.microrobot.co.kr/

SWORDS

Special Weapons Observation Remote Direct-Action System - http://www.pica.army.mil/PicatinnyPublic/news/archive/12-02a-04.asp

Armament Research Development & Engineering Center - ARDEC

Another article about this weaponized robot on defenselink.mil

Servos

Hitec HSR-5995TG digital servo - 333 oz.-in. of torque at 6 volts, over 400 oz.-in. at 7.4 volts

Artificial Intelligence

Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at M.I.T.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology also has a nice artificial intelligence group, http://www-aig.jpl.nasa.gov/.

The artificial intelligence page on wikipedia is an excellent source of information.