Sarosh wrote on Apr 24
th, 2018 at 11:48am:
I think there will be something for all of us to learn, but it certainly won't eliminate the need to practice. That would take all the fun out of it anyway

There is plenty of info about optimizing energy transfer on the physics side, and while every body is different, muscles and nerves do behave in similar ways for most people. There may still be things you can do with techniques or sling design to dial in your own throwing performance based on problems that you might observe when compared to the roboslinger's behavior under various conditions, but to get detailed information about a specific person, you'd probably have to use a motion capture system and do a lot of analysis.
Ultimately, we'll just have to build the darn thing and start slinging to see what we can really learn

To that end, it seems that a rough design is beginning to emerge. Maybe Curious Ardvark or someone else with some mad CAD skills could draw up a prototype small-scale murlin treb for the 3D printer as a starting point???