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IU System Design Methods Laboratory
Indiana University group specializing in formal methods for hardware and robotics design including navigation and situated artificial intelligence.
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/hmg/

ROBOKINE: Inverse Kinematics and Trajectory Planning
Research paper describing a robotic kinematics cad/cae tool used for workspace analysis, inverse kinematics, and trajectory planning of industrial robots.
http://www.geocities.com/pitchq/abstract.html

Sparc-E and robotic research at the University of South Alab ama
Dedicated to small autonomous mobile robotics research and robotics use in the curriculum at the University of South Ala bama
http://www.cis.usouthal.edu/~mward/

UP Mobile Robotics Laboratory
University of the Philippines Electronics and Electrical Engineering Department robotics lab. Primarly concerned with mobile robots as intelligent agents. Research areas included path planning and area mapping.
http://www.upd.edu.ph/~mobotlab/

CMU Robotics Institute Technical Reports
20 years of technical reports and research papers on robotics from the CMU Robotics Institute.
http://www.ri.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/tech_reports.cgi

The Uncanny Valley
Popular explanation of Masahiro Mori's Uncanny Valley theory that explains why almost-human-looking robots scare people more than mechanical-looking robots.
http://www.arclight.net/~pdb/glimpses/valley.html

Robotics and Autonomous Systems Journal
Papers and articles describing fundamental developments in the field of robotics, with special emphasis on autonomous systems. Most articles require payment to view but some are be viewed at no charge.
http://www.elsevier.nl/inca/publications/store/5/0/5/6/2/2/i ndex.htt