The human foot serves three main functions; adapts to contours of ground, absorbs shock impacts and stores and releases energy. Despite significant development of humanoid robots the foot has seen little research and as a result most bipeds do not walk in a humanlike manner. In this work a study of the human foot is conducted to determine how each of these is achieved. The paper then describes the design, construction and testing of a fully articulated humanoid foot which has the same functionality as the human foot.
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