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Tianyu Wang, Christopher Pierce, Velin Kojouharov, Baxi Chong, Kelimar Diaz, Hang Lu, Daniel I. Goldman
The authors present an 86-cm, seven-joint limbless robot whose bilateral cables tune joint compliance, allowing terrain contact to reshape a prescribed traveling wave without collision feedback. In rigid-post lattices, compliance near G = 0.75 produced the best wave efficiency, and the robot approached C. elegans in movement and performance. This result is limited to laboratory lattices and does not establish passive worm locomotion.
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