Abstract: Inspired by human tendon function, parallel springs in the joints of bipedal walking robots allow for a significant reduction of the cost of locomotion in simulation. An experimental setup ...

Maybe you know I like numerical calculations, well I do. I think they are swell. VPython is my tool of choice. In the post Basics: Numerical Calculations I used vpython and excel to do something ...

The shadow projections of uniform circular motion and simple harmonic motion look identical when the periods of the respective motions are the same. The moving objects are a ping pong ball on a ...