Takanishi Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Waseda University

The CRIM (Center of Research In Microengineering) is the new name of MiTech Lab (Microfabrication Technology Laboratory), which was established at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in 1991. At present the CRIM has about 25 full time researchers possessing interdisciplinary expertise. The mission of CRIM is to investigate, design and develop microcomponents, microsystems and micromachines for medical and biochemical applications using innovative microfabrication technologies.

Intelligent Systems Division, Dept. of Precision Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo

The UML Robotics Lab serves/supports/acts as:
- the lab for robotics courses taught by Prof. Holly Yanco
- the thesis work of Prof. Yanco's graduate students
- K-12 Botball and teacher workshops
- robot competitions such as the annual Trinity firefighting contest
- home to several research robots
- a place to design, build, and program mobile, autonomous robots

TechBridgeWorld innovates and implements technology solutions to meet sustainable development needs around the world. Through strong collaborations with partners in developing communities, we explore and enhance the role of technology in the globe, focusing on two main principles: sharing expertise to create innovative and locally suitable solutions, and empowerment of indigenous populations to create sustainable solutions. Through these efforts TechBridgeWorld creates technology accessible and relevant to all.

The Centre for Autonomous Systems (CAS) is a research centre at the Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan in Stockholm. The centre does research in (semi-) autonomous systems including mobile robot systems for manufacturing and domestic applications. The centre was inaugurated 1. August 1996.

Address:
Centre for Autonomous Systems
Numerisk Analys och Datalogi
Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan
S-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: +46 8790 8161
Fax: +46 8723 0302

The Microscale Life Sciences Center is a National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) Center of Excellence in Genomic Science (CEGS). It resides at the University of Washington (UW) and includes investigators from UW and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC) in Seattle. The MLSC is one of the first of three CEGS ever funded by the NIH NHGRI in the nation.
The MLSC or "life-on-a-chip" involves 10 investigators from the UW Departments of Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Chemistry, Microbiology, Laboratory Medicine, and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. The Center started in August 2001, is funded for 5 years at $15 million, and may be renewed for another 5 years.

Our research focus on the topics of computer vision and robotics. The Computer Vision and Active Perception Laboratory (CVAP) is part of the School of Computer Science and Communications (CSC ) at KTH, the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.

The Multimedia Operating Systems and Networking (MONET) Research Group, led by Professor Klara Nahrstedt in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is engaged in research in various areas of distributed multimedia systems.

LASA Laboratory
EPFL, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

Fields covered at LASA include: Learning and Dynamical Systems, Neural Computation and Modeling, Human-Machine Interaction, Humanoids Robotics, Mechatronics, Design of Therapeutic and Educational Robotic Systems.