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Questions about robots Robot site of the week Build your own Robot Article Robot colleges/universities and Labs Robot Related FAQs Robot Competitions & Contests Robot Construction Toys and Modelling Robotics resource lists by Arrick Robotics Find Companies Looking for robot toys? Robot Information Web Sites Want to buy a robot for research? Robots in the Movies and on TV Robots in Cartoons and comics NASA & Space Robots Patents in Robotics and A.I. Books and Magazines for Robot Builders Programming Languages Law Enforcement Robots Artifical Muscles Wearables Exoskeletons Parts and Plans for Robot Builders Robot Groups & Clubs Robot and Automation Trade Organizations

Robot Search Engine Results Robotics at Universities AI, GA, CA, Neural Nets Stories about Robots Radio Data links BEAM Robots Teleoperated Web Robots & On-Line Cameras Robot Art, Puppets, Animatronics Circuits & Electronic & Robot kits Printed Circuit Boards Robotics Mailing Lists Robotics for the Disabled Software Resources, Linux, Operating Systems Microcontrollers, Embedded, Desktop Computers Motors and Motor Control Sensors, Input Devices Walking Robots Robot Games Robotics Simulation Vision Related Some Great Robots and Web Pages Robots in Hazardous Enviroments and Underwater Some Robotics Companies Your tax dollars doing robotics work Robot-Related Newsgroups Unsorted

Robot Site of the Week at ROBOTICS.COM

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• Robots.Net - Robot News

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Build your own Robot Article

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• Build your own robot by Roger Arrick

Robot Colleges/Universities and Labs

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• Databse of Robot Colleges and Labs
• Spanish Robotics Lab
• Greek College/Lab
• German lab
• Yugoslavic lab

Robot Related FAQs

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• Omnibot FAQ
• Robotics miniFAQ for Beginners
• Brushless motor FAQ from AVEOX
• The Robotics FAQ
• Robot Competetion FAQ by NCC
• The Lego FAQ
• Powerglove FAQ by J. Eric Townsend
• The Metal Construction Set FAQ by Jeff Duntemann
• The Motor FAQ
• Hero Robot FAQ by Donnie V. Savage
• 8051, 68hc11, COP8, Micro FAQ
• Realtime computing FAQ
• Homebuilt hardware FAQ

Robot Competitions & Contests

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• BattleBots
• Robot Rumbles
• Odyssey of the Mind "OMerdroid" Project
• The official WWW site of the BEAM Robot Games
• RobotWars Web Page
• Robot Competetion FAQ by NCC
• Micromouse contest
• US First Contest for Youth
• Robotix Annual Conference, Exhibition, Contest

Robot Construction Toys and Modelling

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• Meccano Model Library
• Lego Mindstorm Official Web Site
• Lego Mindstorm Hacking
• Dutch Fischertechnik Association
• Plastruct has more than 4000 plastic parts for the modeler
• Pause Magazine's Lego Reference Guide
• The official Lego Site
• YES! A Lego FAQ!
• Fischertechnik home page by Model A Technology
• Gordy's fischertechnik® Price Watch
• The Metal Construction Set FAQ by Jeff Duntemann
• History of Erector Sets
• Southern California Meccano & Erector Club

Robotics resource lists by Arrick Robotics

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• The PIC Microcontroller Resource List
• The Internet Mechanical Parts Source
• The PC/104 Microcontroller Resource List
• The Video Processing Equipment Source List
• The Machine Framing Source List
• The Surplus Electonics Source List
• The Wireless Data Link Source List

Find Companies

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• SemiSeek for components and equipment
• MotionNET.com Engineering Resources
• Electrical Engineering Links
• Dana's Index of Electronics Mfgs
• BizWeb
• More than 1000 companies listed
• Thomas Register On-Line
• The Chip Directory
• ELab's Embedded Electronics Directory

Looking for robot toys?

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• Technology Index in the UK for educational products
• RobotOZ in Australia
• RobotBooks.Com - the name says it all!
• PROCON TECHNOLOGY - fischertechnik
• Cybertoys
• Rockville Creative Learning
• The Robot Store
• A great gallery of robot toy images
• Features photographs of toy robots.
• Big Life Toys has Classic Robots from the 60's and 70's
• JOKER Computer Systems and Robotics

Robot Information Web Sites

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• GoRobotics

Want to buy a robot for research?

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• Real World Interface, Inc.
• Trilobot Research Robot
• ARobot for experimenters and educators
• Lynxmotion Robotic Arm Kit for educators and Experimenters
• Robix Robot Construction Set
• Edmund Scientific Co carries several small robots
• Movit Educational Robot kits

Robots in the Movies and on TV

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Search the Internet Movie Database for the following movies:

• Robby the Robot
• Silent Running - Huey, Duey, & Luey become tree huggers
• Lost In Space - Danger Will Robinson!
• Short Circuit - Number Johnny 5 is alive!
• Star Wars droid Page
• Star Wars droid creator program
• Terminator - Arnold repeats "I'll Be Back"
• Forbidden Planet - Robby the robot can lift anything!
• RoboCop - Robot violience to the max
• Runaway - Tom Seilic gets attacked
• Westworld - Androids and Yul Brynner shoot'em up
• The Black Hole
• The Stepford Wives
• The Questor Tapes by Gene Roddenberry
• Galaxina
• The Last Starfighter

• Animal Makers Inc. animatronic puppets

Robots in Cartoons and comics

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• The Replicators
• Transformers, Beast Wars, and more cartoons with robots

NASA & Space Robots

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• Robotic Vehicles Group at NASA
• LunaCorp Robotic Teleport Project
• NASA Telerobotics Program

Patents in Robotics and A.I.

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• Patent Database

Books and Magazines for Robot Builders

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• On-Line Technical Book Stores
  • Robotics BookShop at ProfBooks
  • Codys Books
  • Prentice Hall
  • McGraw-Hill
  • OPAMP Technical Books
  • Addison-Wesley
  • Computer Literacy Bookshops
  • CRC Press, Inc.
  • Powells Technical Bookstore
• PIC Books from Square 1 Electronics
• RobotBooks.Com - the name says it all!
• Robot Books from OPAMP Technical Books
• Nuts & Volts Magazine
• Circuit Cellar Magazine
• DPRG Robot Library
• Robot Builder's Bonanza by Gordon McComb, TAB Books, ISBN 0-8306-2800-2
  Good overall book inspite of several circuit errors.
• Android Design by Martin Bradley Weinstein, Hayden Books, ISBN 0-8104-5192-1
  Good discussion of motor drives, batteries, etc.
• Mobile Robots: Inspiration to Implementation ISBN 1-56881-011-3

Programming Languages

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• Dunfield Development Systems C and Assembly Development Kits

Law Enforcement Robots

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Coming soon!

Artifical Muscles

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• Legs from Yobotics!
• Merlin Humaniform Muscles
• Shadow Robot Project: The SHADOW Air Muscle
• The Artificial Muscle Project at MIT

Wearables

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• The MIT Wearable Computing Web Page

Exoskeletons

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• 6 leg pnumatic walking machine
• Exoskeletons For Human Performance Augmentation
• Reboot toy exoskeleton from the cartoon

Parts and Plans for Robot Builders

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• Build your own robot by Roger Arrick
• FirstBot - Free plans and information
• Circuit Specialists Mail Order Electronics
• Mouser Mail Order Electronics
• Digikey Mail Order Electronics
• Wirz Electronics Sonars, hbridges, PICs, etc.
• 80/20 Modular Framing Components
• Novasoft Mekatronix Products, motor control, robots, etc.
• Precision Navigation, Inc. Vector-2X Electronic Compass Module

Robot Groups & Clubs

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• Vancouver Island Robotics Group
• The San Diego Robotics Society
• Miami Valley Robotics Club - Troy, Ohio
• Central Illinois Robotics Club (CIRC)
• The Robot Club on Yahoo
• Robot Group in Austin
• Seattle Robotics Society
• San Francisco Robotics Society of America
• Dallas Personal Robotics Group - Dallas, TX
• Portland Area Robotics Society - Portaland, OR
• Northern New Mexico Robotics Group - Los Alamos, NM
• Twin Cities Robotics Group - St. Paul, MN

Robot and Automation Trade Organizations

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• The Laboratory Robotics Interest Group
• National Robotics Engineering Consortium
• The Robotics Industries Association
• Association of Laboratory Automation

Robot Search Engine Results

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• Yahoo Recreation/Toys/Robots
• Yahoo Mechanical_Engineering/Robotics
• google robot development results

Robotics at Universities

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• Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute
• Social Robots -- DESIRE Research
• Galilei Global Directory of Universities
• Internetworked Control of Scalable Direct Drive Robots
• Robotics Laboratory at Laval University
• Microrobot Ants at MIT
• Boston University
• Univ of S. CA Robotics Research Lab
• Univ of Manchester
• Stanford Robotics Lab
• Univ of Indiana
• Univ of Mass Robotics
• UC Berkeley Robotics and Intelligent Machines Lab
• General Robotics and Active Sensory Perception (GRASP) Lab
• Central R&D Institute for Robotics and Technical Cybernetics St.Petersburg, Russia
• Dr. Johann Borenstein U. of Michigan Advanced Technologies Lab
• Anita Flynn's Home Page at MIT AI

AI, GA, CA, Neural Nets

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• American Association for Artificial Intelligence
• Genetic Programming Notebook
• Artificial Life Online
  • Artificial Life
  • Neural Networks
  • Cellular Automata
  • Expert Systems
  • Fuzzy Logic
  • Genetic Algorithms
  • Robotics
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Chaos and Fractals
  • More . . .
• AXM Corporation Artificial Intelligence and the Internet.

Stories about Robots

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• We Are The Robots! by Roger Arrick

Radio Data links

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• North Country Radio - video and audio transceivers
• Radio Data Link from Arrick Robotics

BEAM Robots

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• BEAM Robots OnLine
• The official WWW site of the BEAM Robot Games

Teleoperated Web Robots & On-Line Cameras

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• Telerobot at the University of Western Australia
• The Mercury project does robotic tele-excavation
• Remote autonomous telescope at the University of Bradford
• Mercury Teleoperated Robotic Excavation Project
• Remote garden at Ars Electronica Center in Austria
• NASA Telerobotics Program
• Teleoperated Robot in Australia

Robot Art, Puppets, Animatronics

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• Furby Autopsy
• ULLANTA Performance Robotics
• Chris Hillman's Animatronics Site
• Animal Makers Inc. animatronic puppets
• The Art of Motion Control
• Telerobotic machine controllable through the web for art context

Circuits & Electronic & Robot kits

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• Nicola Asuni - Circuits, Pinouts, Hardware Guides
• Driving high-power loads with a microprocessor by Roger Arrick
• Tomi Engdahl's electronics info page
• BOTBoard kits based on the HC11
• Wirz Electronics, Bulk Buys
• Parallax Basic Stamps, PIC processors, etc
• Bruce McKibben's Electronic Design Automation links
• Handy Board 6811-based controller for robotics
• The Mini Board Technical Reference
• RainBow Kits
• Ramseye Electronics
• Univ of Alberta Circuit Cookbook
• Marvin Green's Bot Board

Printed Circuit Boards

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• The starting point for any CAD related research on the Internet
• AP Circuits, Quick PC Board Services
• PCB Designers Den by George Patrick
• Bruce McKibben's Electronic Design Automation links
• Printed Circuit Prototyping On-Line Book

Robotics Mailing Lists

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• Dallas Personal Robotics

Robotics for the Disabled

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• KISS Institute Supplementary Wheelchair Controller
• Robotics Aids for the Disabled by.Johann Borenstein
• All Terrain Wheelchairs
• Sensory Feedback project

Software Resources, Linux, Operating Systems

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• Configurable 2D simulator of mobile robots
• Intel Hex Format Explained
• Wotsit's Format: Programmer's File and Data Formats
• 8052 Code Archive
• List Of Stamp Applications (L.O.S.A for short)
• PC/104 FAQ

Microcontrollers, Embedded, Desktop Computers

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• Jeff Frohwein's GameBoy Tech Page
• Review of Atmel Flash Microcontrollers and the MITE ATM52 Programmer
• Journal of Computer Controlled Systems - PC/104, ISA, STD, VXI buses

Motors and Motor Control

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• Motorola Motor Tutorial
• FerretTronics Servo Controller Chips and Software
• Hacking a Servo by Kevin Ross
• MaxCim Brushless DC Motors and Digital Speed Controllers
• On-Line gearmotor sizing program by Precision MicroDynamics
• The difference between Stepper motors, Servos, RC Servos
• MOSFET H-Bridge Schematic & Theory Eugene Blanchard
• Tower Hobbies sells RC Servo Motors
• Pulley Reducers by Roger Arrick
• Using Disk Drive Stepper Motors by Tomi Engdahl
• AVEOX Motors for Remote Control Planes and Cars
• The Control of Stepper Motors by Douglas W. Jones
• MicroMo Gear Motors
• RC Servo Motor Basics by Ahmet ONAT

Sensors, Input Devices

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• Line Following by Arturo Falck
• Dinsmore digital compass
• Virtual Library page on SONAR by Ashley Walker
• Marshall Electronics cameras, displays, lenses
• Tomi Engdahl's Optoelectronics Page
• Roganti's Inclinometer
• Sonar with the 6.270 board
• Wirz Electronics sells Polaroid Sonars, hbridges, PICs, etc.
• Connectix QuickCam Drivers, Hacking, etc.
• Interfacing to the Vector 2X Compass

Walking Robots

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• Mechanized Propulsion Systems - Mecha
• 2D Body Logger and Robotics Package
• Eric Naus's 4-legged Walking Robot
• Frank Scott's Hexapod Robots
• Walking Machine Catalog in Karlsruhe, Germany
• Legs from Yobotics!
• Autonomous Modular Walking Vehicle at University of Waterloo
• The Poly-PEDAL Laboratory
• Roganti's Walking BiPed, HexWalker, QuadraPed
• MIT Leg Laboratory
• Boadicea: A Small, Pneumatic Walking Robot

Robot Games

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• RoboForge Game
• Games at ZimZom
• Robot Odyssey
• Robot Battle, a quickly-evolving programming game
• Giant robot games newsgroup
• Activision's Mechwarrior

Robotics Simulation

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• Autonomous Robotic Soccer Simulator
• Rossum Project
• RobotWorks Trajectory generator for SolidWorks
• ARC Autonomous Robot Controller
• Soda Constructor - You've gotta see it!
• Giovanni Legnani 3D kinematics and dynamics

Vision Related

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• Micro Video Coin-sized video cameras & transmitters
• Hacking the tyco video camera
• CMU Computer Vision
• Vision-Based Robotics At Notre Dame
• Vision Chip Directory

Some Great Robots and Web Pages

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• SHRIMP: High Mobility Wheeled Rover
• 501c ARobot by Roger Arrick
• Omnibots from Mike Pennington
• Quincy Styke's Robotics RAMPAGE
• The Amazing Bickford by Gene Sherman
• Steven Bolt's Great Robots
• Hollingsworth Fully Autonomous Floor Cleaning Robot
• Roganti's Robotics Zone
• Shadow Robot Group, Air Muscle, Biped Walker

Robots in Hazardous Enviroments and Underwater

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• International Submarine Engineering
• RoboTuna and More at MIT
• Perry Tritech Subsea Vehicles
• INUKTUN - modular components for hazardous environments
• UK Robotics
• RoboProbe Technologies - Pipe Inspection, Nuclear, Emergency, etc
• KISS Institute Dinky Robot In Pool

Some Robotics Companies

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• K-Team S.A.
• SLR Systems designs and manufactures lab automation & industrial robotics
• Angelus Research Robotic & AI Products
• The Shadow Robot Group

Your tax dollars doing robotics work

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• Rover Ranch at NASA
• Telerobots at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• NRaD Robotics Activities

Robot-Related Newsgroups

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• comp.robotics.misc All aspects of robots and their applications.
• comp.ai Artificial intelligence discussions.
• comp.ai.alife Research about artificial life.
• comp.ai.fuzzy Fuzzy set theory, aka fuzzy logic.
• comp.ai.genetic Genetic algorithms in computing.
• comp.ai.nat-lang Natural language processing by computers.
• comp.ai.neural-nets All aspects of neural networks.
• comp.ai.vision Vision processing.
• comp.cog-eng Cognitive engineering.
• comp.home.automation Home automation devices, setup, sources, etc.
• comp.lang.prolog Discussion about PROLOG.
• comp.realtime Issues related to real-time computing.
• comp.arch.embedded Embedded microcontrollers.
• comp.speech Speech processing
• rec.games.mecha Giant robot games.
• rec.models.rc Radio-controlled models for hobbyists.
• rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc Packet radio and other digital radio modes.
• rec.toys.lego Discussion of Lego, Duplo (and compatible) toys.
• sci.engr.control The engineering of control systems.
• sci.engr.mech The field of mechanical engineering.
• sci.image.processing Scientific image processing and analysis.
• sci.nanotech Self-reproducing molecular-scale machines. (Moderated)

Unsorted

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SMC Robotics Forum
Design Automation
Digital Signal Processing
ProtoCAM Rapid prototyping
Signal Processing Information Base
Research Group Autonomous Mobile Robots
Univ of Alberta Circuit Cookbook
Univ of Washington Biorobotics Lab
Cambridge Univ Speech, Vision & Robots