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A legged robot powered by pneumatic artificial muscles (PAMs) was designed to mimic human anatomical structures. A critical aspect of this development was creating a tension-oriented stretch reflex system engineered to initiate muscle activation in response to perturbations. Our research encompassed three experiments: 1) assessing the trunk pitch angle with and without the integration of stretch reflexes, 2) evaluating the consistency of hops made with and without reflexes, and 3) understanding the correlation between the reflex strength equilibrium in the biarticular thigh muscles and trunk pitch angle. The results indicated that the integration of the stretch reflex minimized perturbations, thereby allowing the robot to perform double the continuous hops. As hypothesized, adjusting the reflex strength equilibrium caused a shift in the angle. 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