Some sites are worth remembering, but hard to categorize. We've captured them here. These links will take you to other resources, books, misc. links, and a few commercial stores your might choose to use. Hopefully this mix of links will help you to stay informed.

RESOURCES  

• NASA - Robotics Alliance Project 2002-2006
• How Stuff Works - provides basic information and videos on a wide range of topics
• How the Mars rovers work
• How Stuff Works robot videos

• LEGO Mindstorm - basic builds
• 60+ project building instructions for LEGO Mindstorm NXT1.0

BOOKS  

• Robot Programmer's Bonanza and other books - from the St. Louis Public Library
• Learning Computing with Robots, edited by Deepak Kumar (PDF Format)
• Absolute Beginners Guide to Building Robots - by Gareth Branwyn

OTHER LINKS  

• Cool robots - from NASA - a bit dated but still interesting
• ASL project videos: see video link on left of screen - from Switzerland
• Amorphic robot works - building robots from scratch and as art
• Famous replicas of TV and Movie robots - okay, they're copies, but still cool
• Robot Cafe - with links to many sites and topics
• Robot Dreams - from Japan
• Robotique - with links to many other sites
• The 50 Best Robots Ever - from WIRED magazine

COMMERCIAL LINKS  

• The RobotShop.ca - Canada

• Arexx Engineering - Netherlands
• Carl's Electronics - USA
• The EE Compendium
• Generation ROBOT - France
• Innovati - Taiwan
• Jameco's Robot Store - USA
• Parallax - USA
• The Robot Marketplace - USA
• Trossen Robotics - USA

COMMERCIAL HOME ROBOTS  

• iRobot and Rodney Brooks page at MIT
• Home Robots from the RobotShop
• Mint from Evolution Robotics

Stewart Savard (eLibrarian) and Randy Grey (Career Coordinator)