This leads to a combined cable and Popsicle-stick design. How about something like this? What is interesting about this is that it is no longer actually a truss at all—it is a tied arch.

However, as covered by The Robot Report, the design files have now been released for others to use. Rights to the PR2 robot landed in the hands of Clearpath Robotics, after Willow Garage was shut ...

But how do you design a robot to stick a landing on a branch or pipe? Biologists worked with robot designers to discover how squirrels do it, and used what they learned to design a one-legged ...