Movement Lab - Press / Popular Media
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Paper: Optimal speeds for walking and running, and walking on a moving walkway.
M. Srinivasan. Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Nonlinear Science (Focus Issue: Bipedal Locomotion -- from Robots to Humans), 19, 026112, 2009.
Daily Princetonian
American Institute of Physics's Inside Science
New Scientist
The Dialy Telegraph, UK
Related: Seth Young's interview on Radio New Zealand (audio)
Note: Some of the popular press for this paper was somewhat misleading, unintentionally. For instance, the New Scientist article begins with the question "Say you are in a hurry to catch a flight. Should you take the moving walkway or bypass it?". My article has exactly nothing to say about this question. My article only discusses the possible behavior of people not in a hurry. On the other hand, Seth Young's Ph.D. thesis addresses some effects of congestion on moving walkways, and might be relevant in this context.
Paper: Computer optimization of a minimal biped model discovers walking and running.
Manoj Srinivasan & Andy Ruina. Nature. Vol 439, Pages 72-75, 2006.
News and Views articles in Journals
Optimizing walking and running. by Tytell E, Journal of Experimental Biology. 209 (7), 2006
Video/Television
American Institute of Physics, video by Ivanhoe Broadcasting - Webpage with video (see video below, right)
Discovery Channel - Jay's Journal (see video below, left) on Daily Planet. Video credit: Jay Ingram.
National Geographic Channel - Mad Labs (Manoj has a copy of the episode)
Radio
Imagine that! NSF's science news segment on NPR - mp3 file
Internet/Paper (a selection)
New Scientist - webpage, excerpt
Science News Science Now - webpage, article
Nature Online webpage
NSF press release - webpage with video, pdf
GEO.de (in german) html article
Physorg.com html article
Medical News Today html article
... and syndicated distributions thereof. Eventually these links will fade away, like many things on the internet. Some already have.
Paper: Idealized walking and running gaits minimize work.
Manoj Srinivasan & Andy Ruina. Proceedings of the Royal Society: Series A. Volume 463, pages 2429-2446, 2007
Telegraph, UK
Associated Press
Disovery Channel website
In the News