A journey of a thousand miles…
By Alexander Fund The design of the foot began with the desire to improve upon the walking motion that a 3 Mobot configuration with a 4×4 snap connector could do. In this new configuration, the feet snap connectors would shift the center of mass from side to side instead of using a third Mobot. To determine an approximate angle for the feet, the center of mass for each Mobot was first assumed to be in the center of each Mobot and the mass influence of the snap connector was i