This page contains a timeline showing significant Walking Machine events, and dates showing the creation or announcement of the contrivances.
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Early Walking Machines inc. Steam Men
480 BC – Wooden Horse Carriage – Lu Ban – Chinese
230 AD – Wooden Ox / Gliding Horse – Zhu-ge Liang – Chinese
1663 – Cart with Legs – Potter / Hooke
1770 – 8-Legged Wooden Horse – Edgeworth
1850 – Chebyshev Walking platform – Russian
1867 – William Farr Goodwin's Mechanical Horse (pat.)
1867-8 – Dederick & Grass Steam Man
1869 – Winans / Eno "Steam King" Steam Man
1870 – Morrison's Steam Man & Toy
1872 – 8-Legged Steam Walker
1874 – C.C. Roe's Steam Man "Adam Ironsides" (same Rowe as below)
1874-83 – Capt Rowe's Steam Men (same Roe above)
1875 – W.W. Cole's Circus Steam Man
1876 – Farr Goodwin's Philadelphia Centennial Steam Men
1877 – Doyle Mechanical Horse
1878 – Davis Toy Horse
1880 – Hornburg Steam Man "Frankenstein"
1884-1893 – Prof. George Moore Steam Man
1887 – Benson's Walking track
1887 – Walking Wagon
1890 – George R. Moore – Electric Walking Machine
1892 – Rygg Mechanical Horse (Patent)
1893 – Weston Walking Automaton
1894-1914 – Perew Electric Man & Toy
1894 – Gross Walking Machine
1904 – Crosse Leg-Powered Unicycle
1906 – Bingham Mechanical Walker
1910 – Mann Walking Manikin
1912 – Madamoiselle Claire
1916 – "King Grey" the Electric Titan – Fern Pieper
1917 – Coleman Walking Dummy
1918 – Jumping Ocean Liner (Concept)
1919 – Giant Walking Iron Man by Fern Pieper & Chas. Oehler
1921 – Walking Vehicles (Czecho-Slovakian)
1922 – Mechanical Ox (Walking Tractor)
1922 – Walking Tractor by S. T. Corbitt
1923 – Bryan Walking Car
1923 – Mávag Fiat "Mocher Wagen"
1923 – German – Wheel-LessTruck
1930- von Bechtolsheim Walking Car
1932 – Sam Barton Bicycle Horse
1932-3 – Alzetta Italian Mechanical Horse
1939 – Messmore Model Horse
Unknown French Steam Mechanical Horse
Early Fictional Walking Machines
1830c – Steam-assisted walker (Spoof) – Robert Seymour
1868- Ellis – Steam Man et al (Frank Reade Jr.)
1882 – Compressed-Air Horse – Fiction
1892 – "Hockbockid" – Fiction by Bradshaw
1892 – Electric Bob's Big Black Ostrich (Fiction) – Toombs
1896 – Lathrop & Edison Walking Machine – Fiction
1901-3 – Walking Lunar Vehicle by Jerzy Zulawski
1909c – Harry Grant Dart Walking Machines – Fiction
1916- Pete's Steam Man – fiction
1923 – Walking Lunar Rover by Homer Eon Flint
Other Walkers (post 1940)
1940 – Walking Tank – Hutchinson and Smith
1947 – WJ McIntyre "Blowtorch" Horse – Canada
1951 – Bogart Mechanical Horse and Cart
1955 – TEAL (model) – Peter Holland
1956 – CABER (Model) – Peter Holland
1956c – "Dog-Mobile" Dog-controlled Walking Truck (Concept) – Iben Browning
1957-60 – Shigley's Walking Machines
1957-60 – Shigley's Walking Machines
1960c – Maratori "Golden Horse"
1961 – Moonwalker – Space General Corp
1961 – Iron Mule Train – Frank Tinsley
1962 – GE Pedipulator – Ralph Mosher
1965 – MoonWalker Disability Chair
1966 – Philco "Lunar Worm" Concept
1967 – Centipede Walking Machine by Meredith Thring
1968 – “Mechanimal” Walking Models by Masahiro Mori and Ryuichi Tomiya
1968 – Iron Mule Train – R.A. Morrison
1968 – Phony Pony – Frank / McGhee
1969 – GE Walking Truck – Ralph Mosher
1969-72 – Mocci, Petternella, Salinari Hexapod
1969-71 – Waseda Pneumatic Walking robots
1969-84 – Russian Model Walkers
197x – Unknown Russian Bipedal Walker
1971 – Stepping/Walking Machine by Katysu [КатыÑ]
1971 – Grundmann & Seireg 3-legged Walker
1972 – Ignatiev Hexapod
1973? – Gurfinkel Six-legged Walker
1976 – Hirose's KUMO-I
1976 – Gurfinkel "Masha" Hexapod
1976 – OSU-Hexapod – McGhee
1977 – Okhotsimski ILM 6-legged Walker
1978 – Gurfinkel and Fomin's Walking Machine
1978-9 – Hirose's PV-II
1979 – Efimov 6-legged Walker
1979 – "Meccanoids" Meccano Kit
1980 – Kessis Hexapod
1980 – CRAB Walking Beam Model – Peter Holland
1980 – Crater Scraper Walking Model – Peter Holland
1981 – The Walking Gyro by John Jameson
1982c – Scherman "Steam Man" Prototype
1982-3 – Ivan Sutherland – Walking Robot
1983 – ODEX-1 Functionoid
1983 – Bessenov Walking Machine
1984-7- Quadruped – Marc Raibert
1984-93 – Nuclear Inspection Centaur Robot – ART Project
1985 – OSU ASV
1985 – NMIIIA Manned Hexapod Rover Prototype
1987 – First-Step – David Buckley
1988 – David Buckley "Shadow" Anthropomorphic Robot
1988 – AMBLER – Carnegie-Mellon University
1990 – Iron Mule Train (revisited) – D.J. Todd
1992 – Dante & Dante II – Carnegie-Mellon University
1994 – Profi Bionic by Fischertechnik
1996 – ROBIN Pneumatic Wall-Climbing Robot
Walking-Machines – Hybrids & Tractors
1813 – Brunton Steam Carriage with Legs
1824 – Gordon Steam Carriage with Legs
1868 – Vernol's Walking Vehicle
1879 – Praul's Walking Steam Tractor
1917 – Walking Tractor
1918 – Anderson Walking Carriage
1921 – Walking Vehicles (Czecho-Slovakian)
1922 – Mechanical Ox (Walking Tractor)
1925 – Nilsson's Walking Tractor
1944 – Snell's Multi-Ped Walking Tractor
1954 – Lattimore's Walking Tractor
1982c – Thring's Walking Tractor
1995 – Russian Swamp Walkers
1996 – Autopod Hybrid Walker
Mechanical Elephants and Animals moved to here.
Gigantic Walkers
1896 – Lathrop & Edison Walking Machine – Fiction
1901-3 – Walking Lunar Vehicle by Jerzy Zulawski
1909 – Piercy Walking Platform
1913 – War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells (Fictional)
1913 – Giant Mechanical Mosquito by Dr. Gustav Luchy (Concept)
"King Grey" the Electric Titan – Vern Pieper
1918 – Jumping Ocean Liner (Concept)
1919 – Giant Walking Iron Man
1923 –
Walking Lunar Rover by Homer Eon Flint
1933 – Ocean Walking Bridge (Concept)
1939 – First Walking Dragline
1940 – Walking SuperTank – Hutchinson and Smith
1944 – Betelguese Walking Cities – Amazing Stories (Fictional)
1947 – Walking Barge – Tucker
1955 – Dan Dare – Walking Tank – Fictional
1962 – GE Pedipulator – Ralph Mosher
1964 – Ron Herron (Archigram) – Walking City
1964 – LeTourneau Tree Stomper
1965 – Thunderbirds – Sidewinder – Fictional
1965c -Titan Walking Wheel Rover – Sokolov – Conceptual
1966 – Philco "Lunar Worm" Concept
1969 – US Steel: Walker – Syd Mead – Conceptual
1972 -Pluton Walking Rover – Sokolov – Conceptual
1976-9 – Komatsu "ReCUS" Walking Machine
1976 – Russian Walking Platform – Model
1980- AT-AT (Star Wars) – Fictional
1982c – Scherman "Steam Man" Prototype
1983 – DRGXX – Syd Mead – Conceptual
1984 – Moon Walker – Syd Mead – Conceptual
1986 – Humongous – Jim Henson / George Gibbs
1990 – AMBLER – Carnegie-Mellon University
2000 – HABOT Lunar Habitat – Mankins
2001 – Animaris Rhinoceros Lignatus -Theo Jansen
2008 – Walking House by N55
2010 – Natwalk 2.0 Walking Skyscraper – Anton Markus Pasing
2010 – Andrew Baldwin – Walking Boat
2012 – Walking Pod by Scott Parenteau
1867-8 – Dederick's Steam Man
1869 – Winans / Eno "Steam King" Steam Man
19xx – Meccano Rickshaw
197x – Unknown Russian Bipedal Walker
1977 – Russian Walking vehicle
1981 – Honda Ideas Contest – Rickshaw
1982 – Mechnique – "Larry" at Burning Man
Chariot – Bob Schneeveis
1989-95 – MIT 3D Biped with rickshaw
2001 – Blue Rickshaw
2002 – "Boadicea" Walking Chariot
2007 – Ivanov's Walking Ostrich
2007c – Mr. Wu Yulu Walking Rickshaw
2008c – Mr. Wu Yulu Walking Rickshaw
2009c – Childs Amusement Rickshaw
2009c – Honda Robot Rickshaw
Early Lunar – Martian Walking Machines
1961 – Sperry RAND Hybrid Moon Walker
1961 – Sperry RAND Moon Plodder
1961 – RCA Caterpillar Moon walker
1961 – RCA Dumbo Moon walker
1961 – RCA Porky Moon walker
1961 – RCA Praying Mantis Moon walker
1961 – Moonwalker – Space-General Corp
1963 – "TEX" – TUMBLING EXPLORER by David W. Beck
1966 – Philco "Lunar Worm" Concept
1967 – Lunar Leaper by Seifert
1971 – PrOP-M Russian Mars Mini Rover
1975 – LIIIM Russian Mars explorer
1983-7 – PrOP-F Phobos Hopping Pod
1984 – Moon Walker – Syd Mead – Conceptual
1988 – AMBLER – Carnegie-Mellon University
1989 – Martin-Marietta Walking Beam Mars Rover – Chun
2000 – HABOT Lunar Habitat – Mankins
2002 – ESA Lunar Rover – Student Concept
Miscellaneous Lunar and Off World Walker Concepts and Illustrations
One-Legged Powered Walking Machines
Barco Rammer
1942 – Hopping Tank by Henry Wallace
1967 – Lunar Leaper by Seifert
3D Hopper by Raibert
1983-7 – PrOP-F Phobos Hopping Pod
Other Novel Powered Walking Machines
Gizmo Outboard-motor assisted-walking
1978 – Shulman Jogging Machine
1988-92 – Wareham – Mechanical Animals
1996 – Legged Scooter "Road Runner"
2002 – Boris Ingram's Gauteng Walking Motorbike
2003 – Christiaan Zwanikken's Robo-Donkey
2005 – Prototype Mondo Spider Walking Machine
Human-Powered Walking Machines
1889 – Rinehart Walking Machine
1890 – Yagn Walking Apparatus
1892 – Rygg Mechanical Horse (Patent)
1904 – Crosse Leg-Powered Unicycle
1904 – Skorzewski Walking Apparatus
1931 – Shoe-wheeled Bicycle
1932- Sam Barton Bicycle Horse
1934 – Cobb "wind-up" Lower extremity walker
1934 – Unicycle
1960s – Thring Exoskeleton Legs
1974 – Square-Wheeled Bicycle
1977 – Russian Walking vehicle
1981- "Joggercycle" Hybrid Walking Bike
1990 – SpringWalker
Márton Cserny's Hybrid Pedal Walker
21st Century
2003 – Pedal-powered Mechanical Elephant
2010 – 8-Legged Walking Bike
2011 – Carter Sharer's Mechanical Walking Machines
2011 – Panterragaffe Pedal-powered Walking Machine
2012 – "Octipes Vehiculum" by Silas Ulbrich
1900 – Diplock's Pedrail
1904 – Crosse Leg-Powered Unicycle
1907 – Walking Wheel Carriage by Henry S. Hele-Shaw
1917 – Fageol "Walking" wheel tractor
1931 – Shoe-wheeled Bicycle
1950 – Kopczynski Eliptical Wheeled Vehicle
1952 – "Gyro Gearloose" Walking Inventions by Carl Barks
1954 – Square Walking Wheel by Albert Sfredda
1964c – Thring's Walking Wheels Stair-climber
1964c – Thring's Walking Wheels Miniclimber
1964-70 – Rotoped by Julius Mackerle
1974 – Square-Wheeled Bicycle
1982 – Japanese Powered "Walking Wheel" Vehicle
1936 – Gyro-Cycle by Hubert Townend
1950 – Perez Gyroscopic Pedalling Unicyclist
1951 – "Joe Dynamo"
1988 – "Wendell" the Unicycle Rider by Garner Holt
2005 – "Murata Boy" Robot Cyclist
2008 – "Murata Girl" Robot Unicyclist
2008 – "Joules"Tandem Bicycle Robot
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