I took an unique approach in shortlisting the best Robotics universities according to their domain, here is how I did it

Looked into the research areas of Professors who have done significant progress in their respective fields of Robotics.
Looked into Robotics competitions conducted by NASA and shortlisted the finalists in the last 5 years.
As I always say, it is not the university or the department that matters the most, what matters is the Professor under whom you are going to work. I strongly believe your advisor has great influence in what your future is going to be, thus this approach. (Because my advisor had a great role to play in my future)

I have picked best universities for each sub  fields, take a look at it.

The first one is swarm robotics  (No particular order of superiority followed)

1. MIT  Massachusetts Institute of Technology  Prof. Daniela Rus

2. Stanford University  Prof. Mac Schwager

3. University of Pennsylvania  Prof. Vijay Kumar

4. University of Colorado  Boulder  Prof. Nikolaus Correll

5. Harvard University  Prof. Radhika Nagpal

6. Northwestern University  Prof. Mike Rubinstein

7. Arizona State University  Prof. Spring Berman

8. Texas A&M  Prof. Dylan Shell

Top 7 Space Robotics Universities: This list is based upon the performance of teams in NASAs NASCAL Competitions

MIT  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Pennsylvania
University of Maryland  College park
Georgia Institute of Technology
University of Colorado  Boulder
University of Southern California
Drexel University
Top 20 Universities that specialise in Legged locomotion, Personal Robotics, Artificial Intelligent machines, Nano-robotics and etc  are listed below. I have also listed the faculty profile and the different departments, check the out and see if they match your area of interest

Carnegie Mellon University
MIT  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Locomotion  Legged Robotics,
Bio-mimetic Robotics,
Field and Space Robotics,
Comp Sci & Artificial Intelligence,
Robotics Team,
Personal Robots
University of Pennsylvania
Vijay Kumar  http://www.kumarrobotics.org/
Mark Yim  https://www.grasp.upenn.edu/peop...
Dan Koditchek  http://kodlab.seas.upenn.edu/Mai...
Katherine Kuchenbecker  https://www.grasp.upenn.edu/peop...
Georgia Institute of Technology
University of Colorado  Boulder
Autonomous Robotics & Perception Group
Robotics & Systems Design
Smart materials meets robotics
University of Southern California
NASCALInstitute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems
Robotics and Autonomous Systems Center
Stanford University
Stanford Artificial Intelligent Robot  STAIR
Stanford Robotics Lab
University fo Michigan  Ann Arbor
Columbia University
Cornell University
Harvard University
Harvard Robotics Lab
Harvard Agile Robotics Lab
Harvard Bio design Lab
Harvard Bio-Robotics Lab
University of Maryland
University of Washington  Seattle
Oregon State University
University of California Los Angeles
Bionics Lab
Robotics & Mechanism Lab
Bio mechatronics Lab
Robotics Home
Washington University St. Louis
Mechatronics & Robotics
Robotics and Motion Laboratory
John Hopkins University
California Institute of Technology
University of California  Berkley
Robotics Home
Control, Intelligent Systems & Robotics
Berkeley Robotics & Human Engineering Lab
University of California  Santa Barbara
That is a pretty exhaustive list of universities. Actually, my team has put together the top 40 robotics universities. I thought it would be too much to put it here, you can get access to the google sheets from here. (NOTE: You will be asked to share a post in order to get access to this sheet)

All the best.

Anugraha B Ed College, Bangalore

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