History Of Walking Machines

Abstract

This paper shows some of a walking machines throughout a centuries of innovative work of many great minds of engineering, starting as very simple machines who are mimicking animal walk up to modern robots who can achieve complex tasks such as human bipedal walk. It will be pointed out their advantages and disadvantages and it will be shown their future scope. Walking machines have high dynamic growth of interests from a toy industry up to orthopaedic devices. Many of this mechanism are interesting from point of mechanical engineering to show how a development of device surpasses its original ideas and how can be concluded that walking machines are origins of today humanoid robots. Legged mechanism either biped or four-legged have many milestones in development so it is very hard to select some and other to dismiss. However in this paper it will be presented only those related to mechanisms and it will be compared with each other.