Research Laboratories

AIST/IS - CNRS/STIC Joint Japanese-French Robotics Laboratory JRL - headed by Dr. Abderrahmane Kheddar

ALTAIR (A Laboratory for Teleoperation and Autonomous Intelligent Robots), Verona University, Department Computer Science - headed by Prof. Paolo Fiorini

ARMLAB, University at Buffalo (SUNY) - headed by Dr. Venkat Krovi

Automática, Ingeniería Electrónica e Informática Industrial, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Telerobotics Research headed by Dr. Manuel Ferre

Biomechatronics Lab, Tecnológico de Monterrey - Campus Guadalajara – headed by Dr. Joel C. Huegel

Biorobotics Laboratory, University of Washington - headed by Dr. Blake Hannaford

BioRobotics Laboratory, Korea University of Technology - headed by Dr. Jee-Hwan Ryu

CASIT (Center for Advanced Surgical and Interventional Technology), University of California, Los Angeles

Centre for Intelligent Systems Research, Deakin University, Australia

Centro E. Piaggio', University of Pisa - headed by Dr. Antonio Bicchi

Computer Vision and Robotics Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago - headed by Dr. Milos Zefran

Dexterous Manipulation Laboratory, Stanford University - headed by Dr. Mark Cutkosky

GRASP Lab Haptics Group, University of Pennsylvania - headed by Dr.  Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

Haptic Exploration Lab, Johns Hopkins University - headed by Dr. Allison M. Okamura

Haptic Interface Research Laboratory, Purdue University - headed by Dr. Hong Z. Tan

Haptics and Embedded Mechatronics Lab, University of Utah - headed by Dr. William R. Provancher

Haptics and Virtual Reality Laboratory, POSTECH, Korea- headed by Dr. Seungmoon Choi

Haptics Laboratory, McGill University - headed by Dr. Vincent Hayward

Haptix Laboratory, University of Michigan - headed by Dr. Brent Gillespie

Harvard Biorobotics Laboratory, Harvard University - headed by Dr. Robert D. Howe

Dr. Vincent Hayward's group at the Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique, Université Pierre et Marie Curie

Human-machine Interaction Lab, Beihang University - headed by Dr. Yuru Zhang

Human Machine Interface Lab, Rutgers University - headed by Dr. Grigore Burdea

Human Robotics Lab, Imperial College London - headed by Etienne Burdet

ImmersiveTouch Lab, University of Illinois at Chicago, headed by Dr. Pat Banerjee

Institute of Automatic Control Engineering, TUM, Germany - headed by Dr. Martin Buss

Interactive & Networked Robotics Laboratory (INRoL), University of Tennessee - headed by Dr. Dongjun Lee

Interactive Systems Research Group , Reading University, UK - Haptics Research headed by Dr. William Harwin

Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuromusculoskeletal Research (IINR) - headed by Dr John Howell

Dr. Astrid Kappers' group at the Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University

Knowledge Aided Engineering, Manufacturing and Related Technologies (KAEMaRT), Dipartimento di Meccanica, Politecnico di Milano - headed by Prof. Umberto Cugini

MAHI Lab, Rice University - headed by Dr. Marcia K. O’Malley

Mechatronics in Medicine Lab, Imperial College London - headed by Dr. Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena

Microdynamic Systems Laboratory, Carnegie Mellon University - headed by Dr. Ralph Hollis

MIT Touch Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - headed by Dr. Mandayam A. Srinivasan

Multisensory Perception and Action Laboratory - headed by Dr. Marc Ernst

Network Enabled WorkSpaces (NEWS), Armstrong Atlantic State University - headed by Dr. Felix Hamza-Lup

LIMS Lab, Northwestern University, directed by Drs. Ed Colgate, Michael Peshkin, and Kevin Lynch

PERceptual RObotics lab (PERCRO)  Pisa, Italy, Scuola Superiore S.Anna - co-directed by Drs. Carlo Alberto Avizzano and Massimo Bergamasco

Salisbury Research Group, Stanford University - headed by Dr. Kenneth Salisbury

Sensory Perception and Interaction Research Group (SPIN) - University of British Columbia, headed by Dr. Karon MacLean

Tampere Unit for Computer-Human Interaction, University of Tampere, Finland - headed by Dr. Roope Raisamo

Touch Laboratory, Queen's University - headed by Dr. Susan Lederman

Touchlab India, IIT Madras - headed by Dr. M. Manivannan

Virginia Touch Laboratory, University of Virginia - headed by Dr. Gregory J. Gerling

Virtual Reality Laboratory - University of Buffalo, headed by Dr. T. Kesavadas

Visualization and Image Analysis  Laboratory - CMU Robotics Institute and the University of Pittsburgh Department of Bioengineering, headed by Dr. George Stetten

Visualization and Medical Graphics Group - Bangor University, UK.

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