Josef Macera

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · unresolved

Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several

Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021Systems, architecture and hardware · 1 · 1 since 2021

Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.

Artificial intelligence
1 paper
Legged, aerial and field robots · 77% Robot manipulation · 12% Motion planning and robot control · 12%

Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Robotics › Legged, aerial and field robots › bipedal robot
biped walking robot
0.912025
Zippy: The Smallest Power-Autonomous Bipedal Robot · ICRA 2025
Robotics › Legged, aerial and field robots
legged robots
0.912025
Zippy: The Smallest Power-Autonomous Bipedal Robot · ICRA 2025
Robotics › Motion planning and robot control › robot control
open-loop control
0.312025
Zippy: The Smallest Power-Autonomous Bipedal Robot · ICRA 2025
Robotics › Robot manipulation
robot actuation
0.312025
Zippy: The Smallest Power-Autonomous Bipedal Robot · ICRA 2025

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

quasi-passive design · 0.9
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 Zippy: The Smallest Power-Autonomous Bipedal Robot
abstract
Miniaturizing legged robot platforms is challenging due to hardware limitations that constrain the number, power density, and precision of actuators at that size. By leveraging design principles of quasi-passive walking robots at any scale, stable locomotion and steering can be achieved with simple mechanisms and open-loop control. Here, we present the design and control of “Zippy”, the smallest self-contained bipedal walking robot at only 3.6 cm tall. Zippy has rounded feet, a single motor without feedback control, and is capable of turning, skipping, and ascending steps. At its fastest pace, the robot achieves a forward walking speed of 25 cm/s, which is 10 leg lengths per second, the fastest biped robot of any size by that metric. This work explores the design and performance of the robot and compares it to similar dynamic walking robots at larger scales.
Steven Man, Soma Narita, Josef Macera, Naomi Oke, Aaron M. Johnson 0001, Sarah Bergbreiter
ICRA3