Alice
A miniature, autonomous robot powered by watch motors, watch batteries and a PIC microcontroller.
http://asl.epfl.ch/aslInternalWeb/ASL/publications/uploadedFiles/caprariIROS00.pdfARGO Project
A Linux based, autonomous robotic car developed by researchers at the University of Parma in Italy. Site is in Italian and English.
http://millemiglia.ce.unipr.it/ARGO/english/index.html
Aryan: An Interactive Robot Face
An interactive robot face constructed from scratch for research in social human-robot interaction, that can track people and interpret facial expressions.
http://www.digibrain.org/aryan/
ASIMO
Official home page of Honda's Humanoid Robot. Site includes a history of the robotics, photos, technology descriptions, and event information.
http://world.honda.com/ASIMO/
Boilerplate
A fictional Victorian-era robot created as a hoax. Site include a wealth of humorous "historical" photos and fictional accounts of the robot's exploits in World War I.
http://www.bigredhair.com/boilerplate.html
COG
A humanoid robot that attempts to approximate the sensory and motor dynamics of the upper human body, used by MIT to study human robot interactions.
http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/humanoid-robotics-group/cog/cog.html
Gadget - Machine Intelligence Platform
A rover built on a remote control car chassis with sub-system parts lists and with photographs.
http://www.wizard.org/gadget.html
Hamlet
A six legged robot developed at the University of Canterbury for researching force-position control. Site includes architectural drawings, photographs, flowcharts, mechanical assembly breakdowns and biographies for the people involved with the proje
http://www.hamlet.canterbury.ac.nz/
HERMES
A humanoid service robot developed by Bundeswehr University in Munich, Germany. The robot is able to explore unknown environments and perform transportation and manipulation tasks in human-populated areas.
http://www.unibw-muenchen.de/hermes/
Homer
An autonomous robotic project designed to explore its surroundings with a 360 degrees field of vision. Site includes photographs, sub-system descriptions and parts lists.
http://members.shaw.ca/selwyn.rd/
Inkha
Home of Inkha, a robotic head capable of tracking objects visually and emulating human facial expressions and reactions. Site includes software and hardware architecture descriptions, photos, videos, and an events schedule.
http://www.inkha.net/
Kismet
A Robot designed to assist research into social interactions between robots and humans. Site has a publications list, photographs and videos, a research framework analysis and biographies of the project researchers.
http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/humanoid-robotics-group/kismet/
MARVIN - An Autonomously Operating Flying Robot
Photographs, papers, a system overview, and press materials covering MARVIN the Multi-purpose Aerial Robot Vehicle with Intelligent Navigation. Site has details on its participation the annual International Aerial Robotics Competition.
http://pdv.cs.tu-berlin.de/forschung/TubRob/
NASA Robonaut Program
A NASA/DARPA research project that seeks to develop and demonstrate a robotic system that can function as an EVA astronaut equivalent. Site includes a subsystems list, a materials list, descriptions of the analysis tools and videos.
http://vesuvius.jsc.nasa.gov/er_er/html/robonaut/robonaut.html
NEC PaPeRo Personal Robot
A prototype research robot designed to live with humans at home as a partner. The robot can recognize faces and navigate a typical home.
http://www.incx.nec.co.jp/robot/robotcenter_e.html
PalmBot
A small, autonomous robot controlled by a Palm Pilot computer. Site has photographs of the robot, a materials list, and assembly instructions with pictures.
http://www.mbhs.edu/~josborn/palmbot/
Phoenix Mobile Experimental Platform
A mobile autonomous robot platform designed for experimenting with CAROL which stands for Camera Based Adaptive Robot Navigation and Learning.
http://ag-vp-www.informatik.uni-kl.de/Projekte/CAROL/Phoenix.English.html
Robot de Neuro
A robot developed at Mechatronic Research Systems in Switzerland as part of a research program into neural network based visual guidance and navigation. Site contains several papers describing the vision recognition system in detail.
http://www.hh.se/staff/boola/dneuro/deneuro.htm
Shrimp
High-mobility rover with extended climbing abilities with pictures, MPEG videos, and a list of publications.
http://asl.epfl.ch/research/systems/Shrimp/shrimp.php
The Official Stiquito Webpage
Information about the Stiquito Robot including how it works, and where you can purchase Stiquito books, kits, and supplies.
http://www.stiquito.com/
ZaurBot
Tread driven robot based on the Sharp Zaurus PDA with photographs.
http://zaurbot.homelinux.net/
Zaza
Zaza the autonomous Tech Museum robot with photographs, media coverage, maps of the museum, and technical information.
http://www.praecogito.com/~brudy/zaza/
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