1. Selection of Books on Robotics
2. General Information, who is who in Robotics
3. Robotics Tools
4. Robotics Bibliographies and On-line Papers
5. Courses
6. Sites with miscellaneous Robotics links and resources
7. Robotics Research Groups
8. Neuroscience
9. Reinforcement Learning

1. Selection of Books on Robotics

• Sadao Kawamura, Mikhail Svinin, editors, Advances in Robot Control: From Everyday Physics to Human-Like Movements, Springer; 1 edition, ISBN-10: 3540373462, ISBN-13: 978-3540373469, November 14, 2006.
• Sebastian Thrun, Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte, Rodney Allen Brooks (Eds.), Robotics Research: Results of the 12th International Symposium ISRR, Springer-Verlag New York, LLC, Hardcover, ISBN-13: 9783540481102, March 2007.
• Thrun, Sebastian; Brooks, Rodney; Durrant-Whyte, Hugh (Eds.), Robotics Research, Results of the 12th International Symposium ISRR, Series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics , Vol. 28, 2007, XV, ISBN: 978-3-540-48110-2.
• Laugier, Christian; Chatila, Raja (Eds.), Autonomous Navigation in Dynamic Environments, Series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, Vol. 35, X, 169 p., with online files/update, Hardcover, ISBN: 978-3-540-73421-5, 2007.
• Li, Li, Wang, Fei-Yue, Advanced Motion Control and Sensing for Intelligent Vehicles, Hardcover, ISBN: 978-0-387-44407-9, Springer, 2007.
• Srikanta Patnaik, Robot Cognition and Navigation: An Experiment with Mobile Robots (Cognitive Technologies) (Hardcover), ISBN-10: 3540234462, ISBN-13: 978-3540234463, Springer; 1 edition, September 14, 2007.

Implementation:

• Sara Morgan, Programming Microsoft® Robotics Studio (Paperback), Microsoft Press, ISBN-10: 0735624321, ISBN-13: 978-0735624320, Paperback, March 15, 2008.
• Joseph L. Jones, Anita M. Flynn, Bruce A. Seiger, Mobile Robots: Inspiration to Implementation, AK Peters, Ltd.; 2 Sub edition, ISBN-10: 1568810970, ISBN-13: 978-1568810973(Paperback), November 1998.
• Build Your Own Humanoid Robots : 6 Amazing and Affordable Projects (TAB Robotics) , (Paperback), Karl Williams, McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics; 1 edition (March 26, 2004), ISBN-10: 0071422749, ISBN-13: 978-0071422741 2.
• Robot Programming : A Practical Guide to Behavior-Based Robotics (Paperback), Joe Jones, Daniel Roth, McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics; 1 edition (December 12, 2003), ISBN-10: 0071427783, ISBN-13: 978-0071427784

Biomimetics, biologically inspired robotics, and exoskeletons:

• José L. Pons, Wearable Robots: Biomechatronic Exoskeletons, April 2008, ISBN: 978-0-470-51294-4.
• George A. Bekey, Autonomous Robots: From Biological Inspiration to Implementation and Control (Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents), The MIT Press, Hardcover: 593 pages, ISBN-10: 0262025787, ISBN-13: 978-0262025782, June 1, 2005.
• Wermter, Stefan; Palm, Günther; Elshaw, Mark (Eds.), Biomimetic Neural Learning for Intelligent Robots, Intelligent Systems, Cognitive Robotics, and Neuroscience Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3575, IX, 383 p., Softcover ISBN-10: 3540274405, ISBN-13: 978-3540274407, August 22, 2005.
• Richard J. Duro, Jose Santos, Manuel Grana (Eds.), Biologically Inspired Robot Behavior Engineering, Physica-Verlag Heidelberg, Hardcover, ISBN-10: 3790815136, ISBN-13: 978-3790815139, 1 edition, June 30, 2004.
• Ronald C. Arkin, Behavior-Based Robotics, The MIT Press, ISBN-10: 0-262-01165-4, ISBN-13: 978-0-262-01165-5, May 22, 1998.

Mind & Machine:

• Rosalind W. Picard, Affective Computing, The MIT Press, ISBN-10: 0262161702, ISBN-13: 978-0262161701, Hardcover, Key Phrases: sentic modulation, human emotion system, affective computers, Media Lab, Steve Mann, Clark Elliott, September 19, 1997.
• Stan Franklin, Artificial Minds, A Bradford Book, The MIT Press, ISBN-10: 0262561093, ISBN-13: 978-0262561099, Paperback, March 1, 1997.
• Rodney A. Brooks, Cambrian Intelligence: The Early History of the New AI, The MIT Press; 1 edition, ISBN-10: 0262522632, ISBN-13: 978-0262522632, Paperback: 213 pages, July 16, 1999.
• Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Intelligent Machines, The MIT Press, ISBN-10: 0262610795, ISBN-13: 978-0262610797, Paperback, (ISBN 0-262-11121-7, 1990), January 30, 1992.
• Marvin Minsky, The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind, Simon & Schuster, Hardcover: 400 pages, ISBN-10: 0743276639, ISBN-13: 978-0743276634, November 7, 2006.
• Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto, Reinforcement Learning, An Introduction, March 1998, ISBN-10: 0-262-19398-1 ISBN-13: 978-0-262-19398-6.

Related:

• How to Solve It: Modern Heuristics, David B. Fogel, Zbigniew Michalewicz, Springer-Verlag, ISBN-10: 3540224947, Hardcover, 2005.

Pattern recogntion:

• David MacKay, Information Theory, Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks, Hardcover, ISBN: 0521642981, 2003, Cambridge Univ Press link1 link2
• Christopher M. Bishop, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, Springer (2006), Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (August 17, 2006), Language: English, ISBN-10: 0387310738, ISBN-13: 978-0387310732 link1 link2
• Christopher M. Bishop, Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition (Paperback), Paperback: 504 pages, Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (January 18, 1996), ISBN-10: 0198538642, ISBN-13: 978-0198538646
  

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2. General Information about Robotics

• Hans P. Moravec, CMU http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/hpm.cv.html
• Ray Kurzweil
  • many good links http://www.kurzweiltech.com/raycv.html
• http://www.kurzweiltech.com/aboutray.html
• Sebastian Thrun, Stanford (Stanley, Darpa Grand Challenge)
  • home page: http://robots.stanford.edu/index.html
  • papers http://robots.stanford.edu/papers.html
  • The Roboßt Learning Laboratory (when Sebastian was with CMU) http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rll/
• Prof. David P. Miller, University of Oklahoma School of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering (papers on behavioral robotics): http://www.kipr.org/dpm/cv.html
• Prof. Martin Smith’s Robotics Resource (vast amount of info from UK): http://www.robot.org.uk/index.htm
• Maja Mataric:
  • http://www-robotics.usc.edu/~maja/
  • http://www-robotics.usc.edu/~maja/publications
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• Planning is Just a Way of Avoiding Figuring out What to Do Next: http://www.ece.osu.edu/~fasiha/Brooks_Planning.html
• Minsky on AI, emotions, and Noam Chomsky: http://www.cerebromente.org.br/n07/opiniao/minsky/minsky_i.htm
• Joints: http://www.robotmatrix.org/RoboticArm.htm
  
• http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/browse/browse.asp?btype=6&serid=51

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3. Robotics Tools

• Matlab
  • Matlab documentation (User's Guides, etc.), free download at Matlab Help Desk.
  • Student Edition of MATLAB Version 5 for Windows (Textbook Binding) by Mathworks, Mathworks Staff, MathWorks Inc. Prentice Hall; Bk&CD-Rom edition (April 28, 1997), Language: English, ISBN-10: 0132724774, ISBN-13: 978-0132724777 link1
  • Matlab controlled Lego applications:
    • Embedded Coder Robot NXT Demo http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/13399
    • NXT SCARA (Two-Link Planar Robot Arm) Controller Design http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/22126
• Lego
  • NXT Programming Software: http://www.teamhassenplug.org/NXT/NXTSoftware.html
  • Options for programning the LEGO NXT robot, not based on visual programming languages like LabView or MRS-VPL:
    • Java - Lejos http://lejos.sourceforge.net/
    • Matlab - Lego NXT Mindstorms NXT Robotics Toolkit http://www.mathworks.com/programs/lego/
    • C++ - NXT++ http://nxtpp.sourceforge.net/
    • First Lego League http://www.usfirst.org/community/fll/default.aspx?id=970
• SimSpark
  • a generic simulator for various multiagent simulations. It supports developing physical simulations for AI and robotics research with an open-source application framework
  • Download http://simspark.sourceforge.net/ & http://simspark.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

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4. Robotics Bibliographies and On-line Papers

• Unnatural selection: Robots start to evolve (Lego)
  • http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126946.600-unnatural-selection-robots-start-to-evolve.html?full=true
• Rise of the rat-brained robots
  • http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19926696.100-rise-of-the-ratbrained-robots.html

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5. Courses on Robotics

• Robert F. Stengel, Robotics and Intelligent Systems, (MAE 345), Fall 2007: http://www.princeton.edu/~stengel/MAE345.html
• Beginner guides to robotics: http://www.robotmatrix.org/RoboticsCourse.htm
• USC S08, Maja Mataric, http://www-scf.usc.edu/~csci445/
  
• Jeff Trinkle, Robotics II, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~trink/Courses/RoboticsII/RoboticsII.html
• Ken Goldberg, Advanced Topics in Robotics, Berkeley, http://goldberg.berkeley.edu/courses/S02/287/
  
• Prof. Fred G. Martin, University of Massachusetts Lowell, http://www.cs.uml.edu/~fredm/courses/91.450-fall05/
  
• Cognitive Robotics, MIT, S05, http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Aeronautics-and-Astronautics/16-412JSpring-2005/CourseHome/
• Nicola J. Ferrier, University of Wisconsin-Madison, http://www.engr.wisc.edu/me/courses/me439.html
  
• Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, robotics courses: https://agora.cs.uiuc.edu/display/grad/Robotics
•  Dr. Milos Manic at UofI, http://husky.if.uidaho.edu/

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6. Sites with miscellaneous Robotics links and resources.

• Web site aimed to provide information about bioinspired autonomous and semi-autonomous mobile robots: http://www.irobotics.org/ (very good!)
• Lego Robot Solves Rubik’s Cube: http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=19423
• Robotics Research Group, Univ. of Texas at Austin: http://www.robotics.utexas.edu/rrg/learn_more/history/#definition (good!)
• Interesting topic:Google optogenetics

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7. Robotics Research Groups

Many academic research groups are doing research into data mining. Here are links to a few of them:
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8. Neuroscience

• Neuroscience, Dale Purves, George J. Augustine, David Fitzpatrick, William C. Hall, Anthony-Samuel Lamantia, James O. McNamara, S. Mark Williams (Eds.), Hardcover: 773 pages, Sinauer Associates; 3rd edition (June 2004), ISBN-10: 0878937250, ISBN-13: 978-0878937257 (online)

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9. Reinforcement Learning

• Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction Sutton and Barto's book online
• Reinforcement Learning Example