Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!unixhub!shelby!neon!rwilson From: rwilson@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Randy Wilson) Newsgroups: comp.robotics Subject: Re: Grad programs in robotics Keywords: computer, robotics, stanford, univ. Maryland Message-ID: <1990Oct8.215157.27344@Neon.Stanford.EDU> Date: 8 Oct 90 21:51:57 GMT References: <39776@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Distribution: comp Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University Lines: 20 I would heartily recommend Stanford University for someone interested in robotics. Someone already mentioned the Aero/Astro lab under Bob Cannon. The CS robotics lab works together with the AA lab on some stuff, as well as other projects. Jean-Claude Latombe, Tom Binford, Oussama Khatib, Yoav Shoham, and Nils Nilsson work on a range of topics from design of small mobile robots and manipulators through motion planning up to geometric reasoning and AI. The lab has an exciting, dynamic environment, and we're growing quickly. We have quite a few students from MechEng, and cooperate with groups in ME as well. We also work with several groups from companies here in Silicon Valley. As for living conditions, the weather here can't be beat, San Francisco is only a jaunt away, everyone is relaxed, and student housing is affordable and very nice. And your windsurfing or scuba diving class counts for academic credit! Of course, I'm a little biased, being a PhD student at Stanford :-). I just ask you to consider it and maybe apply. Randy "just a satisfied customer" Wilson