Robotics Groups and Laboratories  World Wide

 CMU The Robotics Institute (RI): Kanade Takeo, Alexei Efros, Maxim Likhachev, Anthony Stentz, Howie Choset, Red Whittaker, Alonzo Kelly, James Kuffner etc.

• The Field Robotics Center (FRC)

• National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC)

• Vision and Autonomous Systems Center (VASC)

• Quality of Life Technology Center (QoLT)

• Personal Robotics Lab

• Robotics Institute Technical Report

MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL): John Leonard, Nicholas Roy, Rodney Brooks

• Computer Vision Research Group

• Marine Robotics Group

• Robust Robotics Group

• Robotics, Vision, and Sensor Networks Group (RVSN)

• CSAIL Publications

MIT Meida Lab: Cynthia Breazeal, Marvin Minsky

• Personal Robots Group

Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab (SAIL): Sebastian Thrun, Oussama Khatib, Fei-Fei Li, Andrew Ng, Nils J. Nilsson

• Stanford Robotics Research Group

• Stanford Vision Lab

Gatech Robotics and Intelligent Machine Group: Henrik Christensen, Frank Dellaert, Ronald Arkin

• Mobile Robot Lab

UPenn General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception Lab (GRASP Lab): Vijay Kumar

Caltech Computational Vision Lab: Pietro Perona

Willow Garage: Kurt Konolige

MSR Interactive Visual Media Group: Richard Szeliski

MSR Machine Learning and Perception Group: Andrew Fitzgibbon, Christopher Bishop

Univ. of Washington Robotics and State Estimation Lab (RSE Lab): Dieter Fox

Univ. of Washington Graphics and Imaging Lab (GRAIL): Steven Seitz

UC Berkely Robotics and Intelligent Machine Lab (Historic Wiki): Lotfi Zadeh

UC Berkely Computer Vision Group: Jitendra Malik

UC Berkely Video and Image Processing Lab (VIP Lab)

DLR Robotics and Mechatronics Center

Oxford Univ. Robotics Research Group: Andrew Zisserman, David Murray, Ian Reid, Paul Newman, Micheal Brady

• Visual Geometry Group (VGG)

• Active Vision Group

• Mobile Robotics Group (MRG)

Imperial College of London Robot Vision Group: Andrew Davison

Univ. of Essex- Robotics Research Group: Huosheng Hu, Dongbing Gu

Univ. of Sydney Australian Centre for Field Robotics (ACFR): Hugh Durrant-Whyte

Queensland Univ. of Tech - ARC Centre of Excellence for Robotic Vision : Peter Corke

Univ. of Tokyo Computer Vision Lab: Katsushi Ikeuchi

AIST Intelligent Systems Research Institue: Kazuhito Yokoi

Univ. of Tokyo Johou Systems Kougaku Lab (JSK Lab): Masayuki Inaba

Waseda Univ. Humanoid Robotics Institute

Tokyo Institute of Technology Hirose Lab

ETHZ-  Computer Vision Laboratory: Luc Van Gool

ETHZ - Computer Vision and Geometry Group: Marc Pollefeys

ETHZ - Autonomous Systems Lab (ASL): Roland Siegwart

EPFL - Biorobotics Laboratory Auke Jan Ijspeert 

EPFL -  Laboratory of Intelligent Systems

Univ. of Zurich- Robotics and Perception Group (RPG)  Davide Scaramuzza

Univ. Freiburg- Autonomous Intelligent System (AIS):Wolfram Burgard

Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics Robot Learning Lab

TUM Computer Vision Group

TUM- Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group 

INRIA PERCEPTION: Peter Strum

INRIA LEAR (Learning and Recognition in Vision): Cordelia Schmid

NUS, Singapore- Social Robotics Laboratory (SRL) Sam Shuzhi Ge