Professors & Labs
India
- Shishir N. Y. Kolathaya, Stochastic Robotics Lab, RBCCPS, IISc Bengaluru: [Personal Website][Lab Website]
- Ashish Dutta, IIT Kanpur: Humanoid robotics, biped design and locomotion [Homepage]
- Shakti S. Gupta, IIT Kanpur: Quadruped robot design; Svan quadruped platform [IITK]
- Vivek Sangwan, IIT Bombay: Biped locomotion, dynamics and control [IITB Robotics]
- Saurav Kumar, WeRoCon Lab, IIT Jodhpur: Legged robot modeling, nonlinear control, prosthetic legs and wearable robotics [Personal Page]
USA
- Pulkit Agrawal, Improbable AI Lab, MIT: Robot learning and learning-based legged locomotion [Personal Website]
- Deepak Pathak, Carnegie Mellon University: Learning-based locomotion and robot learning [Personal Website]
- Zachary Manchester, Robotic Exploration Lab, Carnegie Mellon University: Optimization, dynamics, control and legged robot hardware [Personal Page][Lab Website]
- Aaron M. Johnson, Robomechanics Lab, Carnegie Mellon University: Legged locomotion, contact dynamics and robot mechanics [Personal Page][Lab Website]
- Hartmut Geyer, Legged Systems Group, Carnegie Mellon University: Legged dynamics, control and human-scale bipeds [Personal Page][Lab Website]
- Aaron M. Ames, AMBER Lab, Caltech: Biped robots, nonlinear/hybrid control and dynamic walking [Personal Page][Lab Website]
- Ye Zhao, LIDAR Lab, Georgia Tech: Legged locomotion, whole-body control and optimization [Personal Website][Lab Website]
- Sehoon Ha, Georgia Tech: Robot learning, simulation and learning-based locomotion [Personal Website]
- Quan Nguyen, Dynamic Robotics and Control Laboratory, University of Southern California: Dynamic locomotion and nonlinear control of legged robots [Personal Page][Lab Website]
- Pranav Bhounsule, Robotics and Motion Laboratory, University of Illinois Chicago: Legged robot design, energetics and locomotion [Personal Page][Lab Website]
- Ayonga Hereid, Cyber-Physical and Robotics Lab, Ohio State University: Dynamic walking, bipedal locomotion and nonlinear control [Personal Page][Lab Website]
- Koushil Sreenath, Hybrid Robotics Lab, University of California Berkeley: Dynamic legged locomotion and hybrid nonlinear control [Personal Page][Lab Website]
- Yanran Ding, University of Michigan: Optimization-based control, actuator design and legged locomotion [Personal Website][Michigan Robotics]
- Xiaobin Xiong, Wisconsin Embodied Learning Lab, University of Wisconsin–Madison: Legged locomotion, robot learning and control [Personal Website][Lab Website]
- Patrick Wensing, ROAM Lab, University of Notre Dame: Humanoid and quadruped locomotion, optimization and control [Personal Page][Lab Website]
- Ludovic Righetti, Machines in Motion Lab, New York University: Optimal control, locomotion and manipulation for legged robots [Personal Page][Lab Website]
- Katie Byl, University of California Santa Barbara: Legged locomotion, rough-terrain walking and dynamics/control [Personal Page]
- Jonathan Hurst, Dynamic Robotics Laboratory, Oregon State University: Legged robot hardware, actuators, dynamics and locomotion [Lab Website]
China
- Qiuguo Zhu, Zhejiang University: Humanoid robots, biomimetic robots and machine intelligence [Personal Page]
- Qiang Zhang, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC): Humanoid robots, reinforcement learning, perception, planning and control [Personal Website]
- Yang Gao, Vision and Robotics Lab, Tsinghua University: Humanoid robot control, reinforcement learning and embodied intelligence [Lab Website]
Europe
Switzerland
- Marco Hutter, Robotic Systems Lab, ETH Zurich: Quadruped hardware, actuation, locomotion, perception and learning [Lab Website]
- Auke Ijspeert, Biorobotics Laboratory, EPFL: Bio-inspired legged locomotion, robot design and locomotion control [Personal Page][Lab Website]
Italy
- Claudio Semini, Dynamic Legged Systems, IIT: Quadruped design, actuation, locomotion and whole-body control [Lab Website]
- Nikolaos Tsagarakis, Humanoids & Human Centered Mechatronics, IIT: Humanoid design, variable-impedance actuation and legged robots [Lab Website]
- Daniele Pucci, IIT: Humanoid locomotion, whole-body control and ergoCub [IIT Website]
United Kingdom
- Ioannis Havoutis, Dynamic Robot Systems Group, Oxford Robotics Institute, University of Oxford: Legged locomotion, whole-body planning/control and learning [Personal Page]
- Carlos Mastalli, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh: Optimal control, trajectory optimization and legged locomotion [Personal Website]
- Sethu Vijayakumar, University of Edinburgh: Humanoid robotics, optimal control and robot learning [Personal Page]
France
- Serena Ivaldi, INRIA / Loria: Humanoid robotics, whole-body interaction and learning [Personal Website]
- Olivier Stasse, LAAS-CNRS: Humanoid locomotion, whole-body motion and HRP robots [Personal Website]
South Korea
- Hae-Won Park, Dynamic Robot Design and Control Lab, KAIST: Legged/humanoid hardware, actuators and dynamic locomotion [Lab Website]
- Jemin Hwangbo, RaiLab, KAIST: Reinforcement learning, locomotion control and legged robots [Lab Website]
Japan
- Kenji Hashimoto, Waseda University: Humanoid robot design and biped locomotion [Lab Website]
- Masayuki Inaba, JSK Robotics Laboratory, University of Tokyo: Humanoid robot design, musculoskeletal robots and whole-body robotics [JSK Website]
Other Relevant Research Groups
- Sony AI / Sony Robotics: Quadruped locomotion and robot learning [Website]
- IHMC Robotics: Humanoid locomotion, whole-body control and rough-terrain mobility [Website]
- Boston Dynamics: Dynamic quadruped and humanoid robotics [Website]
- Agility Robotics: Dynamic bipedal robots and humanoid hardware [Website]
Ex-Professors who left Academia
India
- Mangal Kothari: Senior Principal Control Engineer, ADASI, Abu Dhabi | Former Professor, IIT Kanpur [LinkedIn] [Homepage]
USA
- Sangbae Kim, Robotics Architect, Reality Lab, Meta | PI of Biomimetic Robotics Lab, MIT (Currently on leave): Quadruped/humanoid hardware, actuators and dynamic locomotion [LinkedIn] [Lab Website]
- João Ramos, Engineer @ Skild AI | Former PI at RoboDesign Lab, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: Humanoid/legged robot hardware, actuators and whole-body control [LinkedIn] [Lab Website]