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Links to Links

• Biped Robot Database assembled by Shuuji Kajita.
• Walking Machine Catalogue assembled by Karsten Berns.
• Robohoo!
• Dave Lavery's Cool Robot of the Week Page
• Frequently Asked Questions in Robotics, compiled from comp.robotics.misc and comp.robotics.research, and maintained by Kevin Dowling at CMU.
  • Where can I find other robot resources on the WWW?, a link into the above FAQ.
  • Where can I read more about robotics?, a link into the above FAQ.
• UMass comprehensive list of robot web servers
• UMass comprehensive robot video collection
• ARRICK Robot Menu

Bipedal Walking Robots

• Meltran by Shuuji Kajita (MEL, CalTech)
• Honda humanoids P2 and P3
• UNH walking robots(Tom Miller)
• Harvard Robotics Laboratory (Howe and Dunn)
• IIS Corp. BioBot
• INRIA BIP Project
• Waseda University walking biped
• Yuan F. Zheng
• UCLA Commotion Lab Mobile Robots
• Kawamura Laboratory biped at Yokohama National University.
• WSU Biped
• Keio University Ohnishi & Murakami Lab.
• University of Wales Cardiff biped.
• Nagoya University Fukuda Laboratory biped.
• Wilmer Advanced Medical Technology Balanced Two-legged walking device. Delft University, Netherlands.
• PIERNUDA at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.
• Emura Lab Biped, Monroe, at Tohoku University.
• Elvis at Goteborg University, Sweden

Biped Simulations

• Iowa State Bipedal Walking Simulation
• Ton van den Bogert at University of Calgary
• Southern Methodist University Systems Laboratory: Analysis and Modeling of Bipedal Gait Dynamics
• The Laboratory for Computer Science, Robotics and Microelectronics of Montpellier (L.I.R.M.M.), biped simulations.
• Animation Lab at Georgia Tech
• Multibody Mechanics Group of the Vrije Universiteit Brussels
• Realistic Animation of Legged Running on Rough Terrain by John Nagle

Passive Dynamics in Legged Locomotion

• Matt Berkemeier
• Arthur Kuo's Passive Dynamic Walking Simulations.
• Passive Dynamic Walkers at Cornell.

Quadrupedal Walking Robots

• Center for Autonomous Systems at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden.
• Tokyo Institute of Technology, TITAN Quadrupeds
• University of Southern Queensland "STIC Insect"
• UMass quadrupedal walker, Thing

Hexapedal Walking Robots

• Case Western walking hexapods and the Biorobotics Laboratory
• Plustech Oy walking forest machinery hexapod
• IS Robotics
• Kyoto University hexapod
• Finnish hexapod
• K2T Hexapod by Matt Arnold
• LAMI hexapods
• MIT pneumatic hexapod
• Rhex from Malaga University (Spain)
• Fraunhofer IFF walking robot Katharina
• Taygetta by Skip Carter
• GOKIBURI from Kyoto University
• Pneumatic Hexapod by John Hart at University of Illinois

Polypedal Robots (8 or more legs)

• CMU's Dante octopod

Running Robots

• McGill University Ambulatory Robotics Laboratory
• U. of Electro-Communications Kimura Lab: "Patrush" Walking and Running Quadruped

Climbing Robots

• Miyazaki University (Prof. Akira Nishi)

Other Locomotion Research Robots

• PIRAIA snake robot at Swedish Institute of Computer Science
• www.snakerobots.com
• CMU field robotics center
• Inchworm robots at Dartmouth Robotics Lab
• PolypodII from Stanford.  Now at Xerox
• Matt Mason's reference to dynamic manipulation
• Tom Edwards walking, climbing, and driving robot.

Other Simulations

• Boston Dynamics Inc
• Walking Made Easy
• Soda Constructor

Inspiring CPG, RL, NN Pages

• Stefan Schaal
• Auke Jan Ijspeert at University of Southern California.  CPG simulations of a Lamprey and Salamander.
• Orjan Ekeberg at KTH, Sweden.  NN/CPG Simulations of quadrupedal walking and Lamprey swimming.
• Chris Atkeson
• Peter Stone
• Reinforcement Learning Repository at Michigan State
• Boston University CAS/CNS

Biomechanics and Neuro Research

• Biomechanics World Wide
• Sports Biomechanics Research Group (Fred Yeadon and David Kerwin at Loughborough U.)
• International Society of Biomechanics (ISB)
• UC Berkeley Locomotion Laboratory
• UC Berkeley PolyPedal Lab (Bob Full)
• BU NeuroMuscular Research Center
• Alberto E. Minetti Physiology and Biomechanics of Locomotion.
• Marcus G. Pandy and Frank C. Anderson at University of Texas, Austin.
• Kazuroni Hase, at the National Institute of Biosciences and Human Technology, Tsukuba, Japan
• University of Oklahoma Physical Therapy 4160 Class

Legged Robots in Feature Films

• Star Wars links

Other

• Mark Spong's Bipedal Walking Class
• Funky Wheel-chair which can balance upright.  Designed by DEKA, marketed by Johnson and Johnson.
• Bipedal Walking Animation at Rubberbug
• Robix 3-legged walker kit
• Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm 3-legged robot contest.
• Robot World Cup Soccer
• Robot Books
• Interesting inventions of David Santos
• Terra Aerospace Corporation
• Android World
• How to Android dot com
• Kazerooni Lab at Berkeley (Human Engineering Lab)

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