Robotics News

• IEEE Robotics News
  
• RoboEarth: A World Wide Web for Robots
  
• David Hanson's Robot Heads
  
• Robot Crawls on Power Line
  
• A New Kind of Factory Robot
  
• Building a Super Robust Robot Hand
  
• 1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets
  
• Cloud Robotics
  
• Windoro Window-Cleaning Robot Demo
  
• How to Make a Humanoid Robot Dance
  
• Superfast Robotic Camera Mimics Human Eye
  
• Robotic Gripper Powered by Coffee Balloon
  
• Robotic Bed Help You Sleep
  
• Researchers Build Rat-Robot Hybrid
  
• Humanoid Robots Rise
  

Software Packages and Libraries

• SpaceLib: a library for 3D Kinematics and Dynamics of system of rigid bodies
  
• Matlab Robotics Toolbox: used for robot kinematics, dynamics and trajectory generation
  
• Dymola: Dynamic Modeling Laboratory
  
• Actin: a software toolkit for control and simulation of complex robotic systems
  
• Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio: uses component based approach
  
• Player/Stage Project: free software tools for robot and sensor applications used in robot interface and simulation systems
• Webots: open source robotics simulator
• RoboWorks: software for 3D modeling and animation of robotic and mechanical systems
• RoboLogix: robotics simulation software package that is designed to emulate real-world robotics applications
• ABB RobotStudio: simulation and offline programming software
• Festo COSIMIR: robotic simulation software
  
• Others...
  

Important Links

• IEEE Robotics & Automation Society Courseware
  
• IEEE Robotics and Automation Society 
  
• IFR (International Federation of Robots)
  
• RIA (Robotics Industries Association)
  
• Robotics Resources
  
• Arrick Robotics
  
• Talking Electronics
  
• RobotsWorx for Industrial Automation
  
• Robotics Trends
  
• StartLocal
  
• ShanghAI Lectures
  

Important Books

• Alaa Khamis. How to Build a Real Robot?. Arab Electricity Magazine, Egypt, 1998-2007
  
• H. Everett. Sensor for Mobile Robots: Theory and Application. AK Peters, Ltd. , 1995
  
• T. Braunl. Embedded Robotics: Mobile Robot Design and Applications with Embedded Systems. Springer, 2003
  
• R. Murphy. An Introduction to AI Robotics. MIT Press, 2000
• R. Arkin. Behavior-based Robotics. MIT Press, 1998
  
• R. Brooks. Cambrian Intelligence: The Early History of the New AI. MIT Press, 1999
  
• S. Nolfi and D. Floreano. Evolutionary Robotics. MIT Press, 2000
  
• Y. Bar-Cohen and C. Breazeal. Biologically-inspired Intelligent Robots. SPIE Press, 2003
  
• G. Bekey. Autonomous Robots: From Biological Inspiration to Implementation and Control. MIT Press, 2005