Citation
(2013), "Web sites", Industrial Robot, Vol. 40 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/ir.2013.04940caa.007
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2013, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Web sites
Article Type: Web sites From: Industrial Robot: An International Journal, Volume 40, Issue 3
Poly-PEDAL Laboratory
This is the homepage of the highly creative Poly-PEDAL Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. The unique lab tests ideas about the performance, energetics and dynamics of animal locomotion (PEDAL). The PEDAL Lab’s studies have resulted in the fastest self-controlled robot, artificial muscles made out of silicon, and adhesive based on a gecko’s toe hair.
The homepage center presents a tour of the topics, based on the type of user, and includes a gammut of visitors, from postdocs to children. The left navigation bar is designed to find specific information quickly, and includes links on: research, which is categorized into the topics of exercise, energetics, muscle, and mechanics; equipment; applications based on bio inspiration; animals studied in the lab; societies; and collaborators.
The top navigation bar allows the visitor to search through a “room” or particular topic such as: News Room; Equipment Room, The Lab, Web Cam, Lecture Hall, Motion Gallery of Pictures and Movies, and the Library.
Humanoid Robot Research Lab
The Humanoid Robot Research Lab at the Seoul National University of Science and Technology develops and controls multi-legged robots including biped humanoid robots.
The Lab’s easy-to-navigate web site provides an overview of its research which focuses on their three main areas of: the Humanoid Robot, Underwater Multi-Legged Robot, and the Rehabilitation Robot. The publications tab divides papers by domestic and international, journals and conference papers. A detailed list of patents is also available. The gallery displays photographs and movies. There is also information on lectures and people.
Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory
The Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory at Virginia Tech. studies novel mobile robot locomotion strategies. This most interesting multimedia web site begins with a slideshow of some of the Lab’s robots on the homepage.
RoMeLa’s research, which specializes in robot locomotion and manipulation, kinematics and mechanisms, and autonomous systems, provides pages on 25 current projects, and six completed projects which include state-of-the-art intelligent humanoids, dynamic walking bipeds, autonomous vehicles, and climbing robots. The Robots! Link features 14 different robots such as SAFFIR, a shipboard autonomous fire-fighting robo; Charli, a cognitive humanoid autonomous robot with learning intelligence, the USA’ first full-size autonomous robot; and whole skin locomotion, an innovative locomotion mechanism inspired by the motility of single celled organisms that use cytoplasmic streaming to generate pseudopods for locomotion.
Other webpages contain material on competition teams, publications, and media/press/awards.
Agile and Dexterous Robotics Lab
The Agile and Dexterous Robotics Lab (ADRL) is part of the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich.
The homepage for the ADRL highlights its: research statement which focuses on achieving dynamic, agile and autonomous robotic control in unstructured environments; collaborations; and news.
Additional links further outline: the swiss robotic disaster recovery challenge, a scenario that mimics a disaster recovery task under severe time constraints; selected research projects that encompass interests in: force and impedance control, model based control and planning of dynamic locomotion and manipulation, applied machine learning to robot control problems, and robust control for articulated robots in unstructured environments; education; publications; and people.
Kod*lab
Kod*lab is a subsidiary of the University of Pennsylvania Grasp Laboratory, where the dynamical systems theory is applied to the creation and construction of intelligent machines and systems, particularly biologically inspired robotics.
Kod*lab’s menu offers data on three current projects of prototypes that concentrate on both level ground and vertical locomotion in complex outdoor terrain. The past projects tab consists of various forms of Rhex, a biologically inspired general purpose hexapod locomotion platform, and RiSE, a biologically inspired general purpose climbing robot.
The publications tab houses publications from 1977 to the present.
Robotics Lab
The homepage of the Robotics Lab at the University of Carlos III of Madrid exhibits four of its vast number of mobile, assistive, and personal robot projects.
The rest of this comprehensive web site provides further details on the robots’ types and applications, which are categorized alphabetically, and encompass: climbing, humanoids, mobile manipulators, and robots in construction. The extensive projects page covers more than 50 projects and the research topics link itemizes more than 30 current topics which range from control of assistive robots, to postural planification for humanoid robots.
Additional pages on the site inform the user on the history of the lab and on networks and scientific societies.
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