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The XPort
This tiny device has a full OS running a TCP stack with loads of protocols. It has 256K Ram, 512K flash, 385K for web pages.

Cornell University Microcontroller Design Final Projects

Parallax's Gas Powered Robot

Society of Robots
A good site for beginners

The Journey Robot
Another great looking robot from David P. Anderson. Really nice use of IMU to supplement odometry. Especially cool is the hat-trick video.

A transforming robot
Sometimes it's a car, sometimes it's a humanoid robot

The new Lego Mindstorms

OmniTread
A serpentine robot. Even better than the Shrimp robot. Check the video. Real cool.

"Emiew"
2 wheels, 4 feet tall, 6km/h, from Hitachi

Shrimp III
Can climb very large obstacles relative to its size

A walking logging machine!

Rambling robots show human efficiency

Ted Larson's balancing robot
Cool use of the CMUCam 2!

Martial arts robots hit Asian tech fair

Humanoid Robot to the Max!!!! using a BMW Mini Cooper.

Really cool humanoid videos

A nicely constructed walker
Check out the '3D' PCB that he's using

A tiny Linux controller board.
200 MHz, 4M flash, 64M RAM

Lego Rovers

An artist/ web guy/ robotic guy...and some ideas for wild robotic projects

Using Lego Mindstorms to solve the Rubic's Cube

Great articles (in 18 chapters) on choosing and caring for batteries

Golf Ball Retrieving Robot

Robotic Snakes

Personal Robotics News

Internet Controlled Robot at C.A.C.T. labs, StLawrence College

LegWay

nBot Balancing Robot

Eagle schematic and layout software

How to use Eagle schematic and layout software
MachineGrid - articles, tutorials, projects
6.270 Autonomous Robot Design Competition
Cyberbotics
How to modify a servo
RC servos
ROBOT Science- Technology Magazine's Online Supplement for Educators, Students
Robotics FAQ Table of Contents
TALOS
Welcome to BattleBots(TM)
What is PID - Tutorial
J.A. Sethian - Fast Marching Methods and Level Set Methods
Precise Miniature Robots and Desktop Flexible Production
A robot gallery provided by Arrick Robotics
CareBot from Gecko Systems

Motor Control

A great detailed overview on how stepper motors work - part 1, part 2
Control of Stepping Motors - A Tutorial by Douglas W. Jones
Motor Control Module
PID Control Information from John Shaw

Robot Plans

Cricket the Robot
Johann Borenstein - Mobile Robots, Obstacle Avoidance, Odometry, Positioning, etc..
Kam's Homepage
My Robots
personalrobotics.net
Roganti's Robotics Zone
Shadow Robot Project_ Biped Walker
SRAT
Student Papers From Previous Semesters
The Yoda Project
Workshop Documentation

Sensors

Bill Harrison on IR detectors
Dennis's OK Web Page
Dinsmore Sensors
Implementing Infrared Object Detection
Infrared `Radar'
Larry Barello
Paul's Cheap Sonar Range Finder Design
PIC Based Imaging Sonar
Sci.electronicsFAQ - IR ASCII Schematics  

Vision

RoboRealm - Free Image Processing Software
Improv - Image Processing for Robot Vision
Robotics_Structured Light Vision
CMUcam
AVRcam  

Competitions

Sumo

OMSI SUMO
Robot Sumo
Robothon Sumo
Ryerson
OCAD Sumo Robot Challange - Bashing/crashing/smashing robots sponsored by the Ontario College of Art & Design
USA Robot Sumo - Japanese champions come to the US! $2000 first prize.
All-Japan Robot Sumo - Worlds largest robot competition with 3000 robots entered!
North East Indiana Robot Games - Three weight classes of Robot Sumo Mayhem
Robot Sumo - The annual competition also features rope climbing, maze, and other events

RoboTag - Autonomous Mobile Robots Playing Tag
BEAM_WCRG Robot Games Homepage
6.270 Autonomous Robot Design Competition - MIT's famous robot competition
Aerial Robotics Competition - This is the place for smart helicopters and blimps
BattleBots - The most dangerous collection of battling robots in the world.
BotBall - Teams of High School students have six weeks to design, build, and program a mobile robot
Trinity Fire Fighting Robot Contest - Autonomous robots extinguish fires in a maze
FIRST - Corporations sponsor local High Schools across the US.
Intelligent Robot Contest - Sendai, Japan.
International Festival of Sciences and Technologies - France's big robot competition
Micromouse Competition - The UC Davis Micromouse page
MIROSOT - The Micro-Robot World Cup Soccer Tournament
RoboCup - The International Robot Soccer competition
RoboRama - Robot competition sponsored by the Dallas Personal Robotics Group
Robot Battles - Head-to-head combat with other 'bots
Robot Wars - A UK TV show
Robothon - The annual competition of the Seattle Robotics Society
SME Student Robotic Challenge - Long-running competition
Western Canadian Robot Games - Canada's premier robotic event includes Robot Sumo, BEAM, and Robot Hockey