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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

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