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]