Robotics Tools

• Robotics Toolbox for MATLAB by Peter Corke
• Player/Stage: free Software tools for robot and sensor applications
• OOPSMP: An Object-Oriented Programming System for Motion Planning developed at Kavraki Lab

Visual Servoing Tools

• ESM Visual Tracking Software developed in INRIA
  
• Machine Vision Toolbox for MATLAB by Peter Corke
• Epipolar Geometry Toolbox (EGT) by Domenico Prattichizzo and Gian Luca Mariottini
• Camera Calibration Toolbox for MATLAB by Jean-Yves Bouguet
• ViSP: a modular software for fast development of visual servoing applications developed by Lagadic group at INRIA
  

Research Libraries and Tools

• Level Set Method Library (LSMLIB) developed by Kevin T. Chu (Serendipity Research) and Masa Prodanovic (Univ. of Texas at Austin)
• PQP: the Proximity Query Package developed at GAMMA

Graduate Life

• Piled Higher & Deeper: a comic strip about life in academia by Jorge Cham
• How to have a bad career in research/academia by David A. Patterson

Course-related Stuff

• Bode Plots: almost everything you might need to know about bode plots by  EriK Cheever.

Free and Useful Softwares

• Ipe: an extensible drawing editor