U-M's record-setting bipedal robot, Mabel, is able to walk, run, step up or down stairs and adjust its gait for obstacles. Professor Jessy Grizzle is developing Mabel, and its future counterpart Atrias, to help create more life-like walking robots.

About the Professor: Jessy Grizzle (http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~grizzle/) is at the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (http://eecs.umich.edu/) at the University of Michigan College of Engineering. His recent research covers the modeling and control of automotive powertrain systems, and the control of bipedal robots.