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Robots and robotics resources

Jorn Barger March 2000

For some reason, robotics pages seem to go 404 much faster than usual. And they all seem to label their links with useless indicators like city/ institution/ individual name instead of functional categories. This page will try to raise the standards a bit.

Tutorials: huge!?, Seattle

Surveys: NASA

Portals: RobotCafe; ArsRobotica; RoboHoo


cool robot of week (each Monday)


Interactive Web

many

Xavier

diggers


Useful

Space: overview, theory, Mars; asteroid rover, handiman, gallery w/thumbnails, telescope

forklift exoskeleton

lockpicker (interview)

volcano walking

slug-munching

Cye (vacuum)

AESOP (surgical) more

ant-sized

search-n-rescue w/pouch

rail-tunnel fire-engine

handicap-nurse; wheelchair navigator, prosthetic leg

laboratory; genome

welding

nuke waste handling


Locomotion

UIUC (links!)

Flying: Acme, Hover, flying spheres, more, spy-eye

Swimming: lamprey, submarine

Legs: Li Liu, info, MIT site, 8-legged, 6-legged small, ditto, Nitinol-powered, 6-legged big, 4-legged

Biped: pic&links, Honda, Shadow, unpowered, human polio-weakened

Uniped: balancing

Wheels: K-family ditto

muscles

Links: biomechanics


Vision

tracking-board

sign-language reader, lip-reader, eye-movements

links, online demos

binocular heads links

MIT-cheap; lo-res

'camera-space manipulation' w/videos

abstract


Navigation

car-driving

Flakey

Borenstein pix?

docking

Yamabico

GuideCane

estimation-based w/videos

backseat driver

super-cheap

buzzwords


Personality

polite; friendly-seeming; greeting

Kismet; Cog

actor/improv

artsy?


Communication

Hadaly

Etch-a-Sketch

Crickets

Ants (theory)


Arms

K-family

Stanford

BRL

Sensors: Squishy


Zoology

insect flight

snake (interview), ditto

dinosaur sim


Sports

soccer, winners, $3000, Italian team

air hockey

Contests: autonomous (LEGO); BotBall; BEAM; BotBash

killers


Pets

Aibo, AiboNet, webring, prototype

fish

DIY robot pets


Toys

baby doll

voice-controlled


LEGO

successful

advanced, ditto?

FAQs: MIT; internals

webring

background

early work: bricks, Creatures, self-monitoring


Hobbyist

Kits: Rug Warrior; Opie; arm, Korean; also assembled; Lynx, Arrick, Robix, Pioneer, ISR, Tracy

Modules: solar

Zine: Techno Flu

Macintosh

Karl Lunt; Neil Fraser

store, ditto, surplus, Mondo, Wirz

Chips: PIC; search

Handy Board; Mini Board (docs)

Links: alphabetical, 1996


Software

Interactive C

MATLAB addon, Mathematica addon

Cye

NASA


Clubs

MIT


Books

store


Meta

FAQ

News

indexes

bookstore


Links

sorted onepage, ditto, ditto [mirror], short, long-NASA, robots

Weblogs: Haddock

alpha by host, ditto academic

Japan




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