Because I seem to be pretty fond on lists, here are some more, of interesting institutions universities and people doing amazing work.

Universities

ETH Zürich.
- Autonomous Systems Lab, Roland Siegwart
- robotics system lab
DelftTU. Software architecture
- https://github.com/tudelft
- delftswa.github.io
Caltech
MIT
UC Berkeley
Stanford
UPV (universidad politecnica de Valencia)
URJC universidad rey juan carlos
Universidad carlos iii madrid UC3M
Stuttgart university, engineering cybernetics. Master of Science (MSc) focused in Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering from University of Stuttgar.
Twente university. Sid Sijbrandij gitlab, roboteam, Student report
Eindhoven TU/e paises bajos, github Tech United Eindhoven
Politecnico de lausanne
FH Aachen
TU München Munich
TU Berlin
TU Dresden
Czech Technical University in Prague
TU ilmenau.Technical Cybernetics and Systems Theory
University of Waterloo
university of Alberta
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
university of washington seattle
West Virginia University
TU Braunschweig Robot Swarms
TU Kaiserslautern
University of Nothinham. numberphile
IIT Gandhinagar
Fachhochschule Wedel University of Applied Sciences

People

Paul Graham. YCombinator
Lex Fridman
Keenan Wyrobek. zipline
Sid Sijbrandij. gitlab
Raffaello d’andrea. Drones
Robert Playter. Boston Dynamics
Lorenz Meier. Auterion drone company
Peter Corke. robotics toolbox
Professor Jeff Hoffman. Introduction to aerospace engineerign: Astronautics and Human Spaceflight
Randy Pausch. Alice python lecture
Rich Harris. svelte’s creator
Dario Floreano. Bio inspired robots
Eric Tsui. knowledge management
Stephen Wolfram
Fabian Riether and Sertac Karaman minidrone MATLAB
Jaron Lanier Who is civilization for
Arie van Deursen. software arquitecture DelftTU
Rodney Brooks. directorof MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Ali Agha. Principal Investigator and Research Technologist at NASA’s JPL and Caltech’s Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies (CAST)
Michael Nielsen. Quatum computing
Vadim Pisarevsky. openCV developer
Homayoon Kazerooni. robotics UC berkeley
Carlos Galeano. NASA
J. Edward Colgate. haptics
John Kenneth Salisbury. robotics haptics
Brendan Schulman
Federico Faggin. synaptics
Victoria Lemieux. Electronic Document & Records Management System Implementation
Cleve Moler. Mathworks creator
Gen Sasaki. Mathworks
Roger D. Launius. chief historian NASA
John Carmack. Best programmer (allegedly)
Don Norman. Father of UX
Sergei Lupashin
Adrian Bowyer. RepRap
Peo Hansen. Migration
Rob Cohee. Product Manager Fusion360