Research Laboratories

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Related Organizations

Haptic Community Web Page (maintained by Northwestern University)