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| Our Home |
| The Microelectronics and Engineering Research Building (MERB) is where the RRG is located. Come and take a small tour of our facilities, inside and outside. |
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 The Robotics Research Group (RRG) is housed within the Microelectronics and Engineering Research Building (MERB) at the J.J. Pickle Research Campus (PRC) in Austin, Texas. Please the Contact Us page for maps and directions to the MERB.
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| What's Inside |
The MERB has 130,000 square feet of research space including clean room facilities, computer laboratories, and a two story tall high bay facility. The RRG constitutes 16,000 square feet of this research space.
The remaining space houses research activities in the areas of Manufacturing, Materials Science, and Micro-Electronics. The space that the RRG has is divided into three individual laboratories:
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High Bay Facility
Metrology Laboratory
Robotics Demonstration Laboratory
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| The following are pictures of the RRG research space. |
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High Bay Facility
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| The high bay facility houses three of our robots including a Variable Geometry Truss (VGT) Robot, a Robotics Research 2017 Dual-Arm Robot and a Cincinnati Milacron T3 Industrial Robot. Select a viewable image below. |
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 These three robots in the high bay are positioned in the workcell configuration pictured to the left. For more information on workcells, check out the Cell Management and Software page. |
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| Metrology Laboratory |
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| The Metrology Laboratory is the designated location for the RRG Actuator Testing and Evaluation Center. In this Laboratory, RRG is developing a variety of test apparatus capable of gathering information about intelligent actuators. For more information about the specific test apparatus used, please check out the following research team's home pages: |
| Actuator Components and Design |
| Cell Management and Software |
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| Robotics Demonstration Laboratory |
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| The Robotics Demonstration Laboratory houses four of our industrial robots: the GMF Robotics S-110R (yellow one in the left picture), the Cincinnati Milacron T3-726 Industrial Robot (blue one in the left picture), the Unimate PUMA Mark II Robot (center picture), and the Adept Robot (right picture). These robots are used primarily for teaching students (taking Dr. Delbert Tesar's ME372J-Robotics and Automation course) the differences between some common industrial robots and the different methods of programming robots. |
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