Art Kuo at the University of Michigan has done much work closely related to passive dynamics

BioRobotics Laboratory at the University of Washington

Biomechanics World Wide

TU Delft Biped walking robots

International Society of Biomechanics

Ambulatory Robotics Lab at McGill University

The Berkeley Orthopaedic Biomechanics Laboratory at UC Berkeley

The Poly-PEDAL Laboratory at UC Berkeley, where Mariano Garcia pursued post-doctoral research on cockroach locomotion

Animation & Graphics at Georgia Institute of Technology (Hodgins et al.)

Yildirim Hurmuzlu at Southern Methodist University

Antonie J. van den Bogert at The Cleveland Clinic

Robotics / Vibration Control at the University of New Hampshire

Human Engineering Laboratory at UC Berkeley (Kazerooni)

Automation Technology Laboratory (Aarne Halme's group) at the Helsinki University of Technology, where Andy Ruina spent the 1997-98 academic year

BIPOP Team at INRIA, where they also do work on passive models

Michael T. Rosenstein at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has an excellent biped bibliography among other things

Matthew Berkemeier at Utah State University

http://www.aerovelco.com. (Tad McGeer's current work), where they build small autonomous planes. One of his previous planes crossed the Atlantic in the summer of 1998.

Walking Machines Catalogue (Karsten Berns, Germany) - an attempt to catalogue all walking robots

MusculoGraphics, Inc.

RobotBooks.com

Knowledge Revolution, where you can get a demo version of Working Model software.

Mariano Garcia has MATLAB code to simulate a few different walking models

micromagic hexapod robot page

Honda ASIMO (Research Model)
Running across the room at 3km/h.
- Dec 2004

Honda ASIMO (Research Model)
Running in slow motion ? clearly showing the foot impact of each step.

Honda ASIMO
Walking forwards and backwards, as well as negotiating stairs on stage at a demonstration in Raleigh, NC.
(NextFest)
(MPG) (8.2 MB)

Sony QRIO
Demonstrating its various walking and running capabilities.
(WMV) (3.3 MB)

'Toni' RoboCup Robot
Steadily walking across the playing field in a controlled manner via wired remote.
- Univ. of Freiburg
- Oct 2004
(WMV) (4.8 MB)

'Kondo' RoboCup Robot
Powered by a pocket PC, autonomously walking across playing field.
- Univ. of Freiburg
(WMV) (6.8 MB)

Rex Walker
An amateur-built bipedal Lego Mindstorms robot, taking a few steps across a bed before toppling over.
(AVI) (2.2 MB)