Research Labs

Research Labs

One of the oldest and largest robotics research organizations, covering manipulation, field robotics, perception, and human-robot interaction, with degree programs.

Research Labs

Joint centre of the University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University, training robotics PhDs and running research on humanoids, manipulation and marine robotics.

Research Labs

MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, one of the largest academic labs working on robotics, manipulation, planning and machine learning.

Humanoid & General-Purpose Robot Makers

Toyota's US research arm, whose robotics group works on large behavior models, home-assistance robots and manipulation research shared through open publications.

Robot Components

German automation supplier of pneumatic and electric drives, grippers and controllers, and publisher of the Bionic Learning Network robot research projects.

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Florida research institute known for humanoid balance and walking control software, including work on Atlas and Valkyrie platforms and its own exoskeletons.

Robotics Software & AI

Steward of ROS and Gazebo, the open-source middleware and simulator that much of the robotics industry builds on, alongside community events and support.

Robotics Software & AI

Korean research subsidiary working on robotics, autonomous driving and spatial AI, including service robots deployed in its own headquarters building.

Research Labs

German Aerospace Center institute that developed lightweight robot arms and humanoid torsos such as Justin, with technology licensed into industry.

Humanoid & General-Purpose Robot Makers

Honda's robotics program, which produced the ASIMO humanoid and continues with avatar robots, walking assist devices and autonomous work vehicles.

Robotics Software & AI

AI platform company whose LeRobot project publishes open robot learning models, datasets and low-cost robot designs; it also owns Pollen Robotics.

Cobots & Industrial Robots

Ontario maker of rugged mobile robot platforms such as Husky and Jackal used by research groups, and the parent of the OTTO industrial AMR line.

Cobots & Industrial Robots

Newton company making the WAM backdrivable robot arm and BarrettHand, long-standing tools in manipulation research and rehabilitation robotics.

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UC Berkeley's AI research center, a major source of robot learning research including reinforcement learning and vision-based manipulation.

Robot Components

Korean maker of DYNAMIXEL smart servo actuators and the TurtleBot research platform, widely used in university robotics courses and labs.

Cobots & Industrial Robots

Illinois supplier of research robot arms, mobile manipulators and components, including platforms used for imitation-learning datasets.

Humanoid & General-Purpose Robot Makers

Barcelona manufacturer of humanoid and mobile research robots such as TALOS, TIAGo and ARI, widely used in European research projects.

Research Labs

University of Pennsylvania's robotics lab, known for aerial robotics, multi-robot coordination, legged robots and perception research.

Cobots & Industrial Robots

Quebec manufacturer of lightweight robotic arms for research, assistive use on wheelchairs, and industrial and medical applications.

Research Labs

MIT lab behind the Cheetah and Mini Cheetah legged robots, researching high-speed locomotion, actuator design and dynamic control.

Research Labs

Italian research institute whose robotics department created the iCub humanoid and works on soft, wearable and industrial robots.

Research Labs

University of Oxford institute researching mobile autonomy, legged robots, perception and learning for robots that work outdoors.

Research Labs

Stanford's AI lab, whose robotics groups work on manipulation, imitation learning and household robot research alongside core AI.

Cobots & Industrial Robots

Shenzhen maker of the myCobot family of compact robot arms and companion robots aimed at education, makers and light automation.

Cobots & Industrial Robots

California maker of Stretch, a lightweight mobile manipulator sold to researchers and used in assistive and home-robot studies.

Humanoid & General-Purpose Robot Makers

Sells humanoid robots aimed at developers, universities and robot competitions, with an SDK for custom motion and AI research.

Research Labs

Georgia Tech's robotics institute, spanning manipulation, healthcare robotics, human-robot interaction and autonomous systems.

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory's robotics group, building planetary rovers, sampling arms and autonomy for extreme environments.

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University of Michigan's robotics department, with work on bipedal walking robots, autonomous vehicles and robot learning.

Research Labs

Berkeley lab researching robot grasping, cloud robotics and the Dex-Net grasp datasets and models used across the field.

Cobots & Industrial Robots

Spanish manufacturer of autonomous mobile robots and mobile manipulators for industry, inspection and research.

Research Labs

Worcester Polytechnic Institute's robotics engineering department, which offered one of the first dedicated undergraduate robotics degrees in the US.

Research Labs

Swiss lab behind ANYmal and other legged robots, researching locomotion, learned control and field autonomy.

Robotics Software & AI

DeepMind's robotics research group, publishing the Gemini Robotics vision-language-action models and demos of robots reasoning about physical tasks.

Home & Consumer Robots

Maker of small programmable quadruped robot kits such as Bittle, used for STEM education and hobby robotics.

Research Labs

Technical University of Munich institute combining robotics, machine intelligence and health research, with work on safe human-robot interaction.