Elena Garcia received the B.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, in 1996 and 2002, respectively. She was a Visiting Scholar at the MIT Leg Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, in 1998, and at the Laboratoire d’Automatique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France, in 2001. She is currently a Researcher at the Industrial Automatic Institute—CSIC since 1997. Her research inter- ests include dynamic stability of walking robots, active com- pliance, friction in high-geared robotic systems and online generation of high-speed foot trajectories. She has partici- pated in various research projects like ROWER, a walking platform for ship building, SILO4, a four-legged locomo- tion system used as a testbed in most of her work, and DYLEMA, a project focused on a six-legged walking plat- form for landmine detection and location.