Robot research at Berkeley and Stanford

The University of California was chartered in 1868 and its flagship campus was established at Berkeley. Today UC Berkeley is the world's premier public university, according to the annual rankings by U.S. News & World Report, and Berkeley Engineering maintains top rankings among engineering programs nationally, public or private. The famous robotics research include visits of the Biomimetics Millisystems Lab (Fearing), the Lab for Automation Science and Engineering (Goldberg), the Hybrid Systems Lab (Tomlin), the Mechanical Systems Control Laboratory (Tomizuka), the Robot Learning Lab (Abbeel), the Vehicle Dynamics Lab (Hedrick), and the Tele-Immersion Lab (Bajcsy).


Stanford University is a private research university located in the heart of Silicon Valley. Stanford has a vibrant research and teaching program in the field of robotics, distributed in the Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, and Bioengineering Departments. Research projects on intelligent systems and robots are conducted in the labs of David Camarillo, Mark Cutkosky, Oussama Khatib, Jean-Claude Latombe,Andrew Ng, Allison Okamura, Bernie Roth, Ken Salisbury, Sebastian Thrun, and Ken Waldron. The highlighting current research includes autonomous robots, human- friendly robot design, bio-inspired robots, haptics, and medical robotics.