If you want to stay up to date on current robotics projects taking place in university robotics laboratories, you can find many of them at the e-exhibition called the Universities Robotics Platform. The online exhibition, hosted by EXPO21XX, is especially designed for universities to display videos, photos, and descriptions of their robotics projects to the industry and the public.
You can view the exhibition at http://www.expo21xx.com/universities-robotics.
The Universities Robotics Platform currently features more than 90 of the top university robotics labs from around the world, including labs from MIT, CMU, Oxford, ANU, Cambridge, and many German, Canadian, and Asian universities. Robotics projects include androids, submersible, rovers, and more.
The website includes well over 100 robot videos, with highlights including: robotic oars for a rowboat by the Helsinki University of Technology; humanoids interacting with humans by Osaka University; stair-climbing and rough terrain robots by the University of Michigan; robotic hands by the Universite Laval; a robot with a biological brain at the University of Reading; the first anthropomimetic robot by the University of Zurich, and more