Mobile Robots have potential applications everywhere that a vehicle or a large conveyor or manipulator could be used, or already is used today. Everywhere there is a vehicle today, someone drives that vehicle, but it could be a robot. Everywhere there is a domesticated animal today doing work (pet dog, farm horse, oxen) there could be a robot.

Robosoft offers heavy Mobile Robot for much higher payloads and compact Robot with high payload with Robotic arm specially designed to be embedded on mobile platforms. 6 DOF manipulator, 2 fingers Gripper and BarrettHand are manipulators specially designed for mobile robot. The Mobile Robot Programming Lab focuses on the Art of Robot Programming. The Lab's aim is the principled design of human-robot collaboration systems, human-robot interaction systems, and autonomous, deliberate systems that achieve real-world goals. They include both research projects studying robot programming and curriculum design projects for teaching robot programming at the secondary school level and beyond. Topics of interest in the lab include: formal representations of perception and action; learning and planning with incomplete information; interleaving planning and execution; mobile robot architectures; real-time visual obstacle avoidance and navigation; Robot team communication and cooperation; Robotics for the handicapped.

Educational Robotics
They are working with Hyperbot, a company in California devoted to educational robotics, to develop both physical robots and curriculum that will make educational robotics viable at the middle school and high school levels. The robot, CHiP, has just been announced. The curriculum will leverage robot programming in order to aid teachers in bringing together math, physics, team skills and of course computer science.

Robots and Abstraction
On the formal side, our work revolves around the concepts of hierarchy and abstraction. These are crucial terms in making the complex, dynamic real-world tractable for present processing systems. Three directions of research occupy this category: (1) The study of hierarchical robot architecture, including the formal specification and analysis of autonomous systems; (2) Communication and cooperation between heterogeneous autonomous systems, including reasoning about the intention of fellow robots and cooperation with minimal communication; and (3) Unsupervised learning of natural hierarchy and abstraction through world interaction.

Tech Materials (Free)

Robot Behaviors Exploring the T-Maze: Evolving Learning-Like Robot Behaviors using CTRNNs
Humanoid Robotics A Biochemical Subsystem for a Humanoid Robot
Industrial Automation Systems Applying Agents for Engineering of Industrial Automation Systems
Robot Team Cooperation A Descriptive Model of Robot Team and the Dynamic Evolution of Robot Team Cooperation
Kuka Robots For ONU ONU Robotics Technology Center of Excellence, powered by KUKA Robotics Corporation
Augmented reality Annotation System for Robotic Application
Modular Robots Self-Reconfiguration Planning Of Identical Modules
Autonomous robots A New Approach To Robotics
Robotic Mounting Flat Panel Displays With Robotic Mounting
Calibration of Industrial Robots A Photogrammetric Robot Calibration System Based On Off-The-Shelf Low Cost Hardware Components

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Amazon Books

	Creative Projects with LEGO Mindstorms by Benjamin Erwin Buy new: $20.64 / Used from: $13.00 A good place to start, especially for kids, with Lego Mindstorms
	A Practical Guide to Behavior-Based Robotics by Joe Jones Buy new: $20.67 / Used from: $15.13 Very good for programming not so much behavior as control. Language and controller agnostic