Roger Q

Roger Q

I used to work in global industrial/robot company, unicorn startup of robotics automation, GAFA, etc. Also studied mechanical/robotics programs in JP/US top-tier universities. Feel free to contact me if you have questions. (Profile Pic is Nichijou Hakase)

openroboacademy - Open robotics academy list

     

This is a list of robotics-related research groups/labs or individual researchers in some famous Universities. The scope mainly covers robotics control/robot learning and machine learning/robotics computer vision/Autopilot/UAV. Also included Control Theory/HRI/HCI/HMI/AR/VR/XR/Remote Sensing/Additive Manufacturing, etc.. Basically, I will check on group/lab’s research/project Thema, or very recent publications. I will update the list as most researchers/groups are dynamic.

   

The main purpose of this list is to help people (typically graduate school applicant) to have a general understanding of trends in robotics research. And a quick filter for different research topics. NOTE: My classification or topic keyword is depending on homepage contents, it could be out of date. Please contact the group directly if you want to confirm. Also, feel free to let me know if there is incorrect info in the list.

   

Tips

  • The list item is in format: lab/group name or researcher, page link, topics/keyword
  • The groups/labs or researchers order on the list is depending on my personal preference
  • I did not list some labs because I know very limited info about them
  • I like the homepage design of Princeton University and Aalto University

   

Topics/Keyword

  • ML(Machine Learning):机器学习:機械学習 -> Refer to use machine learning-related methods applied to control or vision
  • CV(Computer Vision):视觉:コンピュータビジョン -> Refer to general CV research and application in robotics
  • Robot learning:机器人学习:ロボットラーニング -> Refer to the research field at the intersection of machine learning and robotics, Robot learning, such as Sim2Real.
  • Manipulation:操纵:マニピュレーション -> Refer to robotics control terms, usually for controlling multi-axis robot arm
  • Grasping:抓握:把持 -> Refer to robotics control terms, usually means control gripper to grab or hold objects properly
  • Motion/Path Planning:运动/路径规划:モーションプランニング/経路計画 -> Refer to robotics control terms, an algorithm for computing path or movement
  • Perception:感知:検知 -> Refer to receiving of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information or environment
  • Soft Robotics:柔性机器人:ソフトロボティクス -> Robotics that concerns the design, control, and fabrication of robots composed of compliant materials, instead of rigid links
  • Multi-Robot/Agent:多机器人/智能体:マルチエージェント -> A computerized system composed of multiple interacting intelligent agents
  • UAV:无人机:無人飛行ロボット -> Commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without any human pilot, crew, or passengers on board
  • Autopilot:自动驾驶:自動運転 -> Mainly refer to Vehicle Self-Driving
  • Tactile/Haptics:触觉:触覚 -> Sense of touch, usually refer to control of gripper/hand contacting objects
  • Legged robotics:足式机器人:脚型ロボット -> Mainly refer to robot moving with multiple legs. Also, some labs are focusing on Biped/Quadruped Robotics.
  • Dexterity:灵巧操作:巧緻性操作 -> This mainly refer to Robot operating of delicate missions, sometimes it refers to dual manipulator operation
  • BCI/Brain Computer Interface:脑机接口:脳コンピューターインターフェース -> Is a direct communication pathway between the brain’s electrical activity and an external device, most commonly a computer or robotic limb

       

The List

MIT-CSAIL/MECHE: Home Page | MIT CSAIL / MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering covers multiple directions in the current frontier fields of robotics research. Boston Dynamics derived from LegLab, other open-sourced platform like Cheetah.

Harvard-https://seas.harvard.edu/robotics small scale

CMU-Robotics Education and Research Leader The Robotics Institute has a large and comprehensive scope of robotics research, as well as their CS department.

Princeton-Princeton Engineering - Robotics Small scale. Homepage design are amazing, especially fluid and astronomy labs.

Yale-https://seas.yale.edu/faculty-research/research-areas/robotics-mechatronics-and-human-machine-interface

UPenn-GRASP LAB (Department?) Grasp Lab includes multiple robotics research groups, especially the UAV research.

PITT-University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering SSoE Home

JHU-The Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics (LCSR)-Home - Laboratory for Computational Sensing + Robotics Robot research groups cover wide-range topics, famous for Surgical Robotics. Some labs are under Medical School.

Gatech-Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines and ATAS https://projects.research.gatech.edu/organization/gtri-atas large scale, covering multiple topics: Bionic, Wearable Device, etc.

UGA-https://robotics.uga.edu/

Umich-Michigan Robotics | University of Michigan Huge Engineering School, wide range of topics.

BU-Robotics Lab

NEU-Home - Institute for Experiential Robotics Robotics - Khoury College of Computer Sciences

Tufts-Robotic, Autonomous, and Aerospace Systems

WPI-Research | Worcester Polytechnic Institute covers interesting topics

Columbia-Vision & Robotics Control, Robotics, Design, and Manufacturing

NYU-NYU Tandon School of Engineering ai @ NYU

Cornell-Robotics at Cornell Robotics and Autonomy

Vanderbilt-Robotics

Brown-Brown University Robotics

Notre Dame-Robotics @ ND

  • WeRolab - WeRoLab - Prosthetic limb/Ergonomics/Wearable

  • IRIS lab - IRIS Lab - Soft Robotics/Manipulation/Locomotion/Wearable

  • Hai Lin lab - Hai Lin - Multi-Agent/Manufacture/Human-Robot Collaboration

  • Miniro lab - MiniRo Lab - Bionic Robotics/Soft Robotics/Legged Robotics/Locomotion

  • Mark Plecnik(group？) - Home - Mark Plecnik - Robot Design/Manipulation/Legged Robotics

  • ROAM lab - ROAM Lab - Exoskeleton/Legged Robotics/Dynamics/Control

Rice-Robotics

Duke-Labs | Duke Robotics

UNC-Department of Computer Science - Computer Science

Computational Robotics Research Group - Computational Robotics Research Group at UNC-Chapel Hill - Medical Robotics/Service Robot/Manipulation/Motion Planning/Medical Simulation

UIUC-An initiative of the Coordinated Science Laboratory Research Groups and Labs large scale

Uchicago-Homepage - Department of Computer Science

  • HRI lab - HRI Lab - HRI/Social Robotics

WUSTL-Home

NWU-Center for Robotics and Biosystems Center Director is famous researcher Kevin Lynch

Stanford-ROBOTICS CENTER Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory No more words

Caltech-CAST Robotics and Autonomous Control NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) - Robotic Space Exploration JPL/NASA joint project covering planetary rover, etc.

UC Berkeley-https://me.berkeley.edu/research-areas-and-major-fields/robotics/ EECS at UC Berkeley famous for the Engineering School

USC-Robotics and Autonomous Systems Center USC Center for Advanced Manufacturing

UCSD-Welcome to Contextual Robotics Institute

UCSB-UCSB Robotics

UCLA-Robotics and Cyberphysical Systems

UCI-Systems and Design

UCR-Robotics @ UCR

UCSC-Baskin School of Engineering

Purdue-Robotics

VT-Autonomy and Robotics at Virginia Tech

Lehigh-AI and Robotics

Rochester- Centers and Labs

CWRU-Robotics and Mechatronics | Case School of Engineering | Case Western Reserve University

  • Integrated Robotics Institute - Labs | Case School of Engineering | Case Western Reserve University (The institute has multiple labs, some links seems broken, so list them up as following) - MeRCIS Lab: Surgical Robot; Biorobotics Center: Bionic Robotics; Distributed Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory: Modular Robot/Sensing; Mobile Robotics Laboratory: Unmanned Vehicle/Wheel Robot; Autonomous Vehicle Laboratory: Autopilot/Navigation

  • Chiel Motor Control Lab - Chiel Lab | Case Western Reserve University - Biomechanics robotics/Adaptive Control/Neuroscience

  • Ritzmann Cockroach Lab - Roy E Ritzmann (inactive?) - Biorobotics

RPI-Computer Science https://ecse.rpi.edu/research/control-and-autonomy

UW Madison-https://robotics.wisc.edu/ Robotics, Controls and Sensing - College of Engineering - University of Wisconsin-Madison https://robotics.wisc.edu/collaborative-robotics-laboratory/

UW-Computer Science & Engineering Mechatronics and Robotics Robotics and Controls

UFL-Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

UT Austin-Home | Robotics

OSU-Robotics, Automation and Autonomy

GWU-Robotics, Mechatronics, and Controls | Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering (MAE) | School of Engineering & Applied Science | The George Washington University

  • Flight Dynamics and Control Lab - Flight Dynamics and Control Lab - UAV/Geometric mechanics/Dynamics/Control/Machine Learning

  • Peng Wei group - Peng Wei - Machine Learning/UAV/UAV traffic control and management

Uconn-Electrical and Computer Engineering

Syracuse-Robotics and Controls

Fordham-Computer and Information Science Department

UMD-Maryland Robotics Center

BYU-Research Areas

  • magicc lab - Magicc Lab Home - Navigation/UAVSensing/Planning

  • Structural Dynamics Research Group - https://byusdrg.com/ - Non-Linear Control/Dynamics

  • Neuromechanics Research Group - Home - Rehabilitation Robot/Neuroscience

  • Robotics and Dynamics Laboratory - http://radlab.byu.edu/ - Dynamics/Adaptive Control/Soft robot/HRI/Tactile

TAMU-Autonomy and Robotics Faculty and Courses

Rutgers-https://www.cs.rutgers.edu/research/intelligent-systems-list/robotics

UMN-Home

U Iowa-Autonomous Systems and Robotics

IUB-Research Centers and Labs

Umass amherst-Robotics @ UMass Amherst

Delaware-Robotics & Controls | Mechanical Engineering at University of Delaware Center for Autonomous and Robotic Systems |

SIT-Department of Mechanical Engineering Faculty Laboratories

CU Boulder-Robotics

Drexel-About Overview - Drexel University College of Engineering

Iowa State-Secure Cyberspace and Autonomy

Oregon State-Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems (CoRIS) Institute | College of Engineering

UToronto-Home - University of Toronto Robotics Institute I like their homepage design

UBC-Manufacturing Automation & Robotics - UBC Mechanical Engineering

McGillU-Centre for Intelligent Machines

UAlberta-University of Alberta Robotics Robotics | Computing Science

UMontreal-https://diro.umontreal.ca/english/home/

McMasterU-https://www.eng.mcmaster.ca/

UCalgary-Intelligent and autonomous systems | Research

UWaterloo-Robotics researchers | RoboHub Large scale Engineering school

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile- Faculties & Schools - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

USP Universidade de São Paulo-Centro de Robótica da USP Escolas, Faculdades e Institutos

Cambridge-Mobile Systems, Robotics and Automation

  • AFAR - AFAR - Machine Learning/Cognition/Interaction

  • PROROK lab - proroklab - Multi-Agent/Motion Planning/Dynamics/Control/UAV/Swarm System/Navigation

  • Mobile Systems Research Lab - Mobile Systems Lab - Mobile Robot/Sensing/Wearable/HRI/Machine Learning

  • BIRL - Bio-Inspired Robotics Laboratory - Dynamic/Mechatronics/Manipulation/Agriculture Robot

Oxford-Oxford Robotics Institute

  • Cognitive Robotics Group - Cognitive Robotics Group - Autopilot/Rover/Machine Learning/Perception

  • Dynamic Robot Systems Group - DRS - Navigation/SLAM/LiDAR/Adaptive Control/Locomotion/UAV

  • Neural Processing Lab - PNPL - (Currently no info)

  • Mobile Robotics Group - Mobile Robotics Group - Navigation/Perception/Autopilot/Machine Learning

  • Goal-Oriented Long-Lived Systems - GOALS - Multi-Agent/Planning/Navigation/Machine Learning

  • Applied Artificial Intelligence Lab - A2I - Radar/Navigation/Machine Learning

IC-Applied mechanics Research Groups Artificial Intelligence Covers wide range topics

UCL-UCL Robotics Institute

Edin-Research groups

UoM-Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Centre for Robotics and AI

KCL-Centre for Robotics Research

Bristol-Robots and autonomy

Leeds- https://robotics.leeds.ac.uk/research/

Southampton- Engineering Electronics and computer science

Birmingham-School of Computer Science research

Sheffield-Sheffield Robotics

TCD-Department of Mechanical, Manufacturing & Biomedical Engineering

TU Delft-TU Delft Robotics Institute - Home Research (tudelft.nl)

UvA- Research at Faculty of Science

UtrechtU- Research areas

TU/e- Research Areas

KU Leuven- Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics

  • Robot-Assisted Surgery Group - Robot-Assisted Surgery Group - Surgical robot/Medical Device

  • Robotics Research Group - Robotics Research Group - Control/Perception/Machine Learning/Data-Constrain Control/Medical rehabilitation/Manufacture/Aerospace application

  • Intelligent Mobile Platform research group - IMP Wiki | Main / HomePage - Robot Delivery/Rehabilitation Robot/Navigation

  • SOFT ROBOTICS GROUP - Soft Robotics Group - Soft robot

  • MECO Research Team - Home - Control/Optimization/Non-Linear Control/Motion Planning/Robot Arm/UAV/Unmanned Vehicle

  • ACRO - Research Group - ACRO - Research Group - HRI/Computer Vision/Manipulation/Motion Planning/Robot Assistant manufacture

  • M-Group - M Group - Manufacture Automation/Control/Mechatronics/Sensor/Data fusion

ETH- Homepage - D-MAVT https://www.iris.ethz.ch/ Those Swiss Universities have concise homepages

EPFL-Robotics at EPFL Center for Intelligent Systems (CIS) Good homepage design

UZH- Department of Informatics

PSL- Home - Centre for Robotics PSL : école d’ingénieurs, formation et recherche

Paris-Saclay- https://www.centralesupelec.fr/en

IP Paris- Laboratories

Sorbonne – Research Area ISIR | ISIR

  • AGATHE - AGATHE | ISIR - Surgical Robot/Dexterity/Manipulation/Prosthetic limb/Sensorimotor

  • AMAC - AMAC | ISIR - Sensorimotor/Perception/Machine Learning

  • MLIA - MLIA | ISIR - Computer Vision/Machine Learning/NLP

  • MULTI SCALE INTERACTIONS - Multi Scale Interactions - Micro Robot/Haptics/Tactile/Machine Learning/AR/VR/HCI

  • PIROS - PIRoS | ISIR - Social robotics/Education Robot

  • SYROCO - SYROCO | ISIR - Dynamics/Rigid and Deformable body/Wheel Robot/UAV/Handling robot

Paris Cite- Faculté de Sciences | Université Paris Cité

MSU- Научные подразделения Института

301 LABORATORY OF GENERAL MECHANICS, (no homepage)

302 LABORATORY OF NAVIGATION AND CONTROL - Научные направления - Control Theory/Dynamics/Manipulation/Computer Vision/Tactile/Sensor/Energy System

404 LABORATORY FOR AUTOMATION OF EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH, (no homepage)

TUM- Schools and Research Centers(TUM网页的院系和课题组分层有点迷-暂且按home页为准)

LMU-Faculties

Heidelberg- Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Faculty of Engineering Sciences

FU Berlin- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

RWTH-Faculties - RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY - English Pretty large scale Engineering school

KIT- KIT - Studies - KIT Departments

HU Berlin-Chairs

  • Adaptive Systeme - Adaptive Systeme

  • Computer Science Education / Computer Science and Society - Home - Social robotics/Robot Education Interaction

  • CogniSense Group - CogniSense Group - Adaptive Computer Interaction/HCI

TU Berlin- Institutes Institutes

UCPH-University of Copenhagen

DTU-Departments and centres

KTH-Departments | KTH Division of Robotics, Perception and Learning | KTH

LundU-Departments and divisions

UppsalaU-Research - Department of Information Technology - Uppsala University

UiO- Units at the University of Oslo - University of Oslo

UHelsinki-Computer Science | Faculty of Science | University of Helsinki

AaltoU-School of Electrical Engineering | Aalto University School of Engineering | Aalto University School of Science | Aalto University Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation | Aalto University Very impressive homepage design

Politecnico di Milano-Departments

King Abdulaziz University-https://www.kau.edu.sa/home_english.aspx less info on homepage, so list up robotics researchers：

  • Rashid Mehmood-High Performance Computing Center - Rashid Mehmood - Distributed system/Smart city/Mobile Robot

  • Khalid Munawar-Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Khalid Munawar - UAV/Automation Control/Mechatronics/Actuator

KAUST-Electrical and Computer Engineering Program

University of Tehran-https://ece.ut.ac.ir/en

Qatar University-Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Robotics and Embedded Systems

University of Cape Town- Research Activities | University of Cape Town Research Groups | University of Cape Town

NUS- https://www.nus.edu.sg/about/departments

NTU-College of Engineering (COE)

  • Centre for System Intelligence and Efficiency - Home - Control system/Autopilot/Unmanned system

  • Robotics & Automation - Robotics & Automation - Computer Vision/Surgical Robot/Actuator/Sensing/Micro system/Soft robot/UAV/Logistics Automation/Construction Robot/Manipulation etc.(Pro. Chen I-Ming)

  • Biomedical Informatics Lab (BIL) - Home - VR/AR/Surgical Robot/Simulation system

  • Sports & Biomechanics - Biomedical & Sports - Ergonomics/Sports Assistant device/Wearable

  • Manufacturing - Manufacturing - Additive Manufacturing/Production Process/Precision Engineering

Tel-Aviv University-The Iby and Aladar Fleischman Faculty of Engineering

UTokyo-東京大学工学部機械工学科[機械A]·大学院工学系研究科機械工学専攻 知能機械情報学 | 専攻 | 組織 | 東京大学 大学院 情報理工学系研究科 東京大学大学院 新領域創成科学研究科 人間環境学専攻 東京大学 精密工学科／精密工学専攻

KyotoU- 機械理工学専攻 航空宇宙工学専攻

Titech (Institute of Science Tokyo)-工学院 情報理工学院

OsakaU- 大阪大学 基礎工学部 / 大学院基礎工学研究科 大阪大学工学部/大学院工学研究科

TohokuU- 東北大学工学研究科·工学部 研究領域｜東北大学 大学院 医工学研究科 東北大学 大学院情報科学研究科

WasedaU- 学科·専攻 | 早稲田大学 基幹理工学部·研究科 早稲田大学 先進理工学部·研究科 早稲田大学 大学院情報生産システム研究科 早稲田大学 創造理工学部·研究科

KeioU-ホーム | 慶應義塾大学理工学部

SNU- Research Institutes - Research Units - Research - Seoul National University

KAIST-KAIST large number of research groups

SUStech-南方科技大学工学院

ShanghaiTech-信息科学与技术学院

HKU-Research Areas | HKU Graduate School

HKUST- HKUST ENGINEERING

CUHK-工程學院 | 學院 | 香港中文大學

NTU-學術單位 - 國立臺灣大學

NTHU-教學單位:國立清華大學

IIT Madras-IIT Madras - Research Areas

U of Melbourne-https://about.unimelb.edu.au/strategy/our-structure/faculties-and-graduate-schools

ANU-https://www.anu.edu.au/about/academic-colleges

U of Sydney-Schools

UNSW Sydney-Our faculties & schools | About us - UNSW Sydney

U of Auckland-https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/engineering.html https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/science.html Centre for Automation and Robotic Engineering Science

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