Citation
(2012), "Web sites", Industrial Robot, Vol. 39 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/ir.2012.04939caa.009
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2012, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Web sites
Article Type: Web sites From: Industrial Robot: An International Journal, Volume 39, Issue 3
Miniature Robots Mobile Group
The Miniature Robots Mobile Group (MOBOTS) is part of the Laboratoire de Systèmes Robotiques (LSRO) inside of the École Polytechnique Fédérale De Lausanne (EPFL), with an emphasis on strong competencies in digital electronics and system integration for miniature autonomous mobile robots.
The MOBOTS colorful, multimedia homepage highlights it Latest News, a YouTube video, and Quick and Related Links. The rest of the site covers in depth, its research in inspection systems, self-assemblying robots, animal-robot interaction, autonomous construction, and robjects; a separate tab on its robots includes other experimental robots; and there is a library of five of its technologies. There is also a separate link on education, which includes lectures. The group’s publications for the past five years can be found under research.
Boston Dynamics
Boston Dynamics, founded in 1992, is a USA engineering company that builds advanced robots with remarkable mobility, agility, dexterity and speed.
Boston Dynamics’ well-laid out web site provides information on their ground-breaking robots, which include BigDog, a quadruped robot for travel on rough-terrain, PETMAN, an anthropomorphic robot for testing equipment, RISE, a robot that climbs vertical surfaces, and SquishBot, a shape-changing chemical robot that moves through tight space, and others.
Boston Dynamics also has a YouTube channel, with its popular BigDog video receiving over 12,000,000 views.
The company also develops tools for human simulation and these can be found under the links Di-Guy and Digital Biomechanics.
Montpellier Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics, and Micro-electronics Robotics Department
www2.lirmm.fr/~w3rob/Rob//index.php
The Montpellier Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics, and Micro-electronics (LIRMM in French) is a cross-faculty research entity of the University of Montpellier 2 (UM2) and the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), and is comprised of 28 researcher staff members.
The robotics department is organized into five project-teams covering research in automatics, signal and image processing, and mechanical design in the fields of health-related robotics applications, industry manufacturing, and robotic exploration. Links on the homepage take the visitor to the teams’ portals: DEMAR: deambulation and artificial movement, DEXTER: design and control of robots for manipulation, ICAR: image and interaction, IDH: interactive digital humans, and NERO: networked robots.
Ant-Like Microrobots
Ant-Like Microrobots is an inter-disciplinary project at the University of Maryland. With the tagline of “Fast, Small and Under Control” at the top, this National Science Foundation (NSF) project’s attractive homepage features an introduction and Antbot News.
The rest of this concise site contains material on Ant-Like Microbots’ research on locomotion, control and sensing, and testbed; publications, and people.
Locomotion in Mechanical & Biological Systems Laboratory
The Locomotion in Mechanical & Biological Systems (LIMBS) laboratory is a part of a consortium of the robotics and computational sensing laboratories at Johns Hopkins University. LIMBS research is based on the principles of animal and robot sensory guidance.
LIMBS’ web site offers an overview of its four main areas of research: sensorimotor integration in weakly electric fish, antenna-based tactile sensing for high-speed wall following, vision-based control, and adaptation and control of rhythmic behaviors.
Other web pages include publications, lab news, lab people, opportunities, and a calendar of lab talks.
Robotics & MultiBody Mechanics Research Group
http://mech.vub.ac.be/multibody_mechanics.htm
The mission of the Robotics & MultiBody Mechanics Research Group at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel is to conduct fundamental and applied research in the broad field of robotics and multibody mechanics.
The group’s comprehensive web site covers in-depth information on the following research topics: pneumatic artificial muscles, Lucy – bipedal walking robot, soft arm, Maccepa, real time simulation, trajectory generation, intelligent ankle-foot prosthesis, Altacro – step rehabilitation robot, ANTY, and nuclear robotics.
There are also links on the group’s publications, members, PhD and master’s theses, and national and international collaborations.
Associations
CLAWAR (www.clawar.org/)