Vendors

• Sony AIBO dog (USA)
• Compaq Personal Server Project, used in the MIT robo contest 1999.
• Pioneer robot vendor, activrobots.com
• RWI, Mobile robot company (from Vlad).
• The Handy Board vendor.
  
• Motorola page, to order the manual for the processor used in the Handyboard. The HandyBoard Index Page.
  The The MIT Handy Board page.
  The Handy Board mailing list. Also here. Now at lugnet.com.
• Robot parts supplier.
• Robotic.com
• Lego Mindstorms
• Pitsco-dacta
• Sonar Boards for the Handy Board.
• Stepper motor information, Wirz Eelctronics.
• Difference between servo and stepepr motors
• Robot Store.
• The Personal Robot Navigator.
• WES-Technik, stepper motors, light servo system, etc.
• stepper motors ideas from U. Alberta.
• Lego robots, another page.

People

• Fred Martin's page at MIT.
• Joe Ayers and the lobster robots, at Northeastern University.
• Lisa Meeden's page at Swarthmore. More Robotics links.
• Daniela Rus at Dartmouth.
• Matt Mason at Carnegie-Mellon University, Robotics Institute.
• Mark Overmars Lego page at Utrecht.

Software

• Voice recognition software for Handyboard. Also here.
• Java on Handyboard, beta version.
• NewtonLabs Interactive C page.
• IC Manual from Rice (seems obsolete).
• How to install Interactive C on Unix
• NQC . Not Quite C runs on Linux, Mac, Win95 and Win32 and can be used to program the Lego RCX.
• Mark Overmars Lego page at Utrecht.
• Handyboard assembly programming system.
• HB_Buffalo. A monitor operating system to facilitate development of machine code programs on the HandyBoard.

Robots groups

• Legged robots
• Seattle Robotics Society
• HomeBrew Robotics Club

Research groups and Projects

• CMU Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
• Robot Learning Lab at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute. Used QuickCams for vision applications.
• The Ubiqutous Telepresence Project
• Lego Visual Programming Challenge and Research on Visual Programming at Washington Univ. in St Louis.
• Walking Robots links. Also try Pages of the EE Department of the University of New Hampshire. Miller et.
• New Hampshire

Other Robotics Links

• JPL Nanorover.
• Robotics and Real Time Computing links.
• Robotics links.
• More robotics links.
• More Robotics links.
• Robot Links.
• Internet Robotics Resources.
• Robots Information Central.
• Robotics and Science links
• On-line Robotics
• Mini Robots
• Robotics FAQ page.
• comp.robotics.* FAQ.

Courses

• UMass robotics course, Rod Grupen.
• Univ of Alberta handyboard site.
• Columbia, Spring 2000 (from V.). using saphira
• Lego Robot course at CWRU.
• UMass
• Wellesley page
• Bryn Mawr Robot Building Lab
• Interactive Art with MIT Handy Board
• Dartmouth Robot lab.
• Building Intelligent Agents. Good links, resources.
• Lisa Meeden's page at Swarthmore. More Robotics links.
• Fred Martin's page at MIT.
• Matt Mason (CMU) high school course.
• Lego course at CWRU.
• Elec201 from Rice University.
• Machine Intelligence Lab, a REU site, University of Florida at Gainesville.

Educational resources

• BrynMawr Resource Kit
• MIT Course Notes: Hardware Appendix.
• Handyboard Tutorial at University of Alberta.

Robot Contests

• First Robocup European Championship 2000 and Conferences 28 May - 2 June, University Sport Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Robot Soccer Cup, at Carnegie Mellon.
• Penn State Abington College Fire-Fighting Robot Contest, Saturday March 27, 1999.
• Trinity College fire-fighting robot contest.
• MIT Robot competition
• MIT Robot Day.
• AAAI'98
• AAAI'99
• AAAI Robot building lab'99
• Other robot contest sites
• Micromouse contest
• BEAM competition

Conferences and Workshops

• US / Europe Workshop on Personal Robotics

Videos

• Matt Mason's list, from CMU Robotics Institute.
• IEEE-RAS

Demos, Tips and Tricks

• Fetchbot. This robot will find an object, pick it up, and drop it somewhere else.
• NQC reference page.
• Tips and tricks Tips and tricks for sensors (2 sensors on 1 input) and designs (including the bumper used for Jessi's robot).
• Tips and Tricks: Making a Joint without a hinge.
• LegoBot Headquarters. Some useful tips and tricks.
• light seeker robot using a position sensor.
• Lego garbage truck. Cool arm lifting mechanism.
• Plotter, a robot that draws on a sheet of paper.
• bumper car with front and back bumpers (a good example of a bumper that doesn't hold the touch sensor down after being pressed).
• Differential implementation ideas.Lego and steambot software.
• Applet with funny walking mechanisms.

Miscellenia

• Compaq Cambridge Research Laboratory
• Robot Mower. More pictures
• MIT 6.270 Course (Robot Design) check out the student robot pages for lots of designs!
• Intel StrongARM Homepage
• ARM Page

Articles

Miscellenia

• dispensingrobots.com
• educationrobots.com
• industryrobots.com
• labautomationrobots.com
• robotsdotcom.com