Publications by authors named "Spencer Flint"

A nature-inspired musculoskeletal system is designed and developed to examine the principle of nonlinear elastic energy storage-release for robotic applications. The musculoskeletal system architecture consists of elastically rigid segments and hyperelastic soft materials to emulate rigid-soft interactions in limbless vertebrates. The objectives are to (i) improve the energy efficiency of actuation beyond that of current pure soft actuators while (ii) producing a high range of motion similar to that of soft robots but with structural stability.

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