From another "mechanical" era. But I think you miss the point. Trying to control this system via computer controlled systems is a bit more demanding and rewarding at the same time.
Here's a translation of one of the above urls ...
For systematizing the motion skill, you think that
various sides such as body, sensing and processing
are important. Although it has the new sensing system,
as for the aforementioned robot, systemic tactual sense
with the form which is similar to the human, joint
structure was formed from the motor and harmonic drive,
the human was something which differs.
Also the robot of muscle skeletal type constitutes in
order to pursue the relationship between motion skill
and the body to a greater extent.
You aimed toward the fact that role of the body
because dynamic motion is actualized from the
viewpoint of "the intelligence which had the body",
via the development of the jump landing robot, is
made clear. Because jump landing is actualized with
the robot, the pneumatics artificial muscle actuator
was used, "artificial muscle skeletal system" was
proposed. You can call artificial muscle skeletal system
the thing which it tries probably to actualize the
mechanism which the animal has from standpoint of
living thing norm engineering.
The jump landing robot "Mowgli" which it developed
has anti- gravity muscle and 2 joint muscle which advance
as the mechanism which is peculiar to muscle skeletal
system. Depending upon kinetics simulation, even with
when there is a disturbance with the physical feedback of
muscle skeletal system robustness the fact that it can do
the vertical jumping was shown. In addition, the vertical
jumping and the jumping riding to the chair were actualized
as a dynamic systemic operation.
Either way it's pretty impressive.