If you are looking in Canada, for private industry you might look at:
- Neptec Design Group (www.neptec.com), which was bought by MDA so their jobs link will take you to MDA.
- MDA (mdacorporation.com)
- Mission Control Space Services (www.missioncomtrolsoaceservices.com)
- Canadensys (www.canadensys.com)
All work in space robotics and rovers to varying degrees. For non-space you might look at Provectus Robotic Systems or Neptec Technologies Corp (spin-off of NDG above).
For universities, you might look at Carleton University (www.carleton.ca), Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineerimg, with Dr. Alex Ellery or Dr. Steve Ulrich. They both work in space robotics and machine vision.
For non-space university you might look at McGill University for Dr. Greg Dudek.