List of robotics topics

Robotics is the science and technology of designing, making, and applying robots, including theory from many contributing fields. A robot is a mechanical or virtual, artificial agent. It is usually an electromechanical system, which, by its appearance or movements, conveys a sense that it has intent or agency of its own.

The following list is provided as an overview of and topical guide to robotics:

Importance of robotics

Main articles: Robotics and Roboticist

Branches of robotics

Contributing fields

Additionally, contributing fields include the specific field(s) a particular robot is being designed for. Expertise in surgical procedures and anatomy, for instance would be required for designing robotic surgery applications.

Robots

Types of robots

Industrial robots

Mobile robots

Real-life cyborgs

Specific robots and robot models

Robotic toys and toy robots

Notable Robots in fiction

Robotic subsystems

• Robotic arm

Specific robotic subsystems

• Shadow Hand

History of robotics

Main article: History of robots

General robotics concepts

Robotics software projects

• DROS, Dave's Robotic Operating System, free software for the robotics researcher or hobbyist
• MARIE - Mobile and Autonomous Robotics Integration Environment, a free software tool for building robotics software systems
• anyKode Marilou, an integrated graphics environment for robotics prototyping, physics simulations and robots programming
• Microsoft Robotics Studio
• The Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit (MRPT) - An open-source set of C++ libraries and applications which cover grabbing, visualizing and manipulating datasets, particle filter and Kalman filter-based SLAM, linear algebra, robotics sensors and MATLAB-like plot rendering.
• OROCOS - Open Robot Control Software project, a free software toolkit for realtime robot arm and machine tool control
• Player/Stage Project, a free software robot interface and simulation system, used for robotics research and teaching worldwide
• RoboRealm, free robot vision software
• Robot Intelligence Kernel from Idaho National Laboratory
• URBI - Universal Real-Time Behavior Interface
• Webots, a professional robot simulator used widely in academic and education
• YARP - Yet Another Robotic Platform, an open source platform for research in robotics

Robotics tradeshows and conventions

• Robonexus

Robotics contests and competitions

Robotics companies and brands

Robotics agencies, organizations, schools, and education programs

Robotics periodic publications

Robotics scholars

• Isaac Asimov

Leaders in robotics

Robotics lists

• List of inductees to the Robot Hall of Fame
• List of fictional robots and androids

See also

Aerospace Aircraft Automobile Driverless cars

Human enhancement NASA Singularitarianism

Robotics portal Submarine Technology Technological singularity

External links

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• Adaptive Robotics Software at the Idaho National Laboratory
• Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI)
• Automata and Art Bots mailing list home page
• Automonous Robots Journal
• "The Basics - Robot Software". Seattle Robotics Society.
• Beginner's Tutorial for Building a Robot
• Creators of robots for people Autonomous mobile robots.
• DARPA Grand Challenge
• DIY Learning robot Build your own autonomous learning programmable robot.
• FSI-All Japan Robot-Sumo Tournament
• Grape - Graphical Programming Environment for embedded controllers and qfix robots.
• Guarding the fence - 2 Autonomous combat vehicles developed in Israel - An article
• Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC)
• "Mobile Autonomous Robot Software (MARS)". Georgia Tech Research Corporation.
• Cognitive Robotics Lab of Juergen Schmidhuber at IDSIA and Technical University of Munich
• qfix robot kits Robot kits for hobby and education
• RoboCupJunior
• RobotRoom
• "Robot software components". Sluggish Software.
• Robot Tutorials for Beginners
• "Rossum Project". G.W. Lucas.
• Southern Illinois University Edwardsville's Robot-Sumo Competition
• "Tech Database". robot.spawar.navy.mil.
• Robotics and Electronics Tutorials and Educational resources
• RoombaGuide - The A to Z guide on Roomba
• SpykeeWiki- Development on the wifi robot Spykee