Cardboard: The New Plywood?
Maybe... certainly cheap and compliant. Accomplishing turns by "tweaking" the rectangular frame into a parallelogram reminds me of the "wing warping" technique the Wright brothers used in lieu of ailerons.
http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2013-09/crowdfund-65-running-robot
http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2013-09/crowdfund-65-running-robot
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