Teaching Robots to Walk Efficiently (IMAGE) NYU Tandon School of Engineering Caption NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering's Joo H. Kim earned the ASME Freudenstein / General Motors Young Investigator Award for developing a highly accurate way to measure and analyze robots' expenditure of energy. Here, Professor Kim and fellow researchers plot the energy expended by a commercially available biped robot DARwIn-OP robot against the naturally efficient gait of the average human. Charts illustrate not just the total energy expenditure, but at specific joints and the energetic cost of transport. Credit NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering Usage Restrictions for editorial use only, with coverage of NYU research License Licensed content Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert system.