Biped Robot Research in the World
Here is the list of research sites which have intensive biped research project
(If you are studying biped robot and your group was not in the following list, I would greatly appreciate you sending me an e-mail about your homepage to kajita@mel.go.jp!).
| ... Contains movies of robot |
| ... My recommendation |
Research in Japan
- Aoyama Gakuin Engineering Systems Laboratory
- Electrotechnical Laboratory Humanoid Interaction Laboratory

- Osaka University Furusho Laboratory
- Kyoto University Adachi Laboratory
- Keio University Yamazaki & Maeno Laboratory
- Kogakuin University Automatic Control lab.
- Kobe University Kitamura Laboratory
- Shizuoka University Nogai Laboratory
- Shinsyu University A birdlike walking robot
- Tohoku Univsersity Emura Laboratory
- The University of Tokyo Hori Laboratory
- The University of Tokyo Inoue & Inaba Laboratory
- Tokyo Institute of Technology Mita Laboratory

- Tokyo Denki University Saito Laboratory
- Tokyo University of Agriculture and TechnologyBickel Laboratory
- Doshisha University Hara & Yokogawa Laboratory
- Nagaoka University of Technology Ohishi Laboratory
- Nagoya University Fukuda Laboratory, biped robot picture
- Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute Report 1995 14 Intelligent power plant
- HONDA Motor co.,ltd. Humanoid Robot P2,P3 and ASIMO (in Japanese)

- Yokohama National University Kawamura Laboratory
- Waseda University Humanoid Project


=>The first humanoid robot in the world was developed by this group. You can see a walking robot movie here.
Database etc.
- Robotics research in Japan
And Research in the World!
- Australia
- Project Thecodont - The Biped Walker
- Canada
- McGill University: the Ambulatory Robotics Lab
- Columbia
- Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana: BARTOLO "The Walking Machine"
- France
- The INRIA project BIP
- The Laboratory for Computer Science, Robotics and Microelectronics of Montpellier
(L.I.R.M.M.), Legged-robotic research group
- Germany
- BARt-UH (Bipedal Autonomous Robot - Universit舩 Hannover
- Mexico
- Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Depto.Ingenieria en Computacion/Div. Ingenieria Electrica,
LINDA Group
- Netherlands
- Delft Biped Laboratory

- Spain
- Grupo de Robotica Walker-II (in Spanish)
- The United Kingdom
- The Shadow Robot Group Homepage
- University of Wales Cardiff Cardiff School of Engineering
- The United States
- Caltech Robotics group
- Cornell University Human Power, Biomechanics, and Robotics Laboratory
- Georgia Institute of Technology Gary Boone's biped research
- The Harvard Robotics Laboratory
- Iowa State University,The Iowa Center for Emerging Manufacturing Technology (ICEMT),Biped Balancing and Walking Control
- University of Michigan, Professor Kuo's Passive walking research
- MIT Leg Laboratory

- The University of New Hampshire Robot Lab
- Southern Methodist University the Systems Laboratory
- UC Berkeley Locomotion Laboratory
- UCLA Commotion Lab Mobile Robots
- WSU Robotics Team: Biped Project
- Database etc.
- Android World
Worldwide android database. They also have their own android project!
- The Legged Robot Builder
- The Walking Machine Catalogue

- Of course, Robotics Internet Resources Page is one of the most useful homepage to search the world wide robotics research activities!
- Robotics Internet
Resources Compendium
- Mark's Robotics, Learning, Chaos, Complexity, Systems theory
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