In particular, this arm has 7 degrees-of-freedom that makes the overall motion of the arm very complex so that, before you start driving the arm, you should be very familiar with all the position it can get.


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There are four kinds of people in this world: cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics…Cretins don’t...
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He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty m...
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The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else
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Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.
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After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the tr...
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الشكوك ليست أبدًا مغالاة ، الشك ، دائمًا الشك ، بهذه ال�...
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Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always ...
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It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it prope...
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Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you...
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Any fact becomes important when it’s connected to another. The connection changes the perspective;...
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Only by having a sense of history's trajectory (even if one does not believe in Parousia) can one lo...
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Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevanc...
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The list could surely go on, and there is nothing more wonderful than a list, instrument of wondrous...
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In this universe of ours, with its wealth of errors and legends, historical data and false informati...
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When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everythi...
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La creatividad significa saber quiénes somos. Es jazz sin música, es un flujo de energía. Ser cre...
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The beauty of the universe consists not only of unity in variety, but also of variety in unity.
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Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm wha...
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I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm d...
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In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is...
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Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel un...
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I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows that...
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When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembe...
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Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.
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Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respira...
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But I must hope that books possess a life of a more varied kind than their authors' myopia concedes ...
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[...] there is one inexorable law of technology, and it is this: when revolutionary inventions becom...
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I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
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إنّ الهواتفَ الجوَّالة لا يمكنها أن تدوم ، أوّلًا ، لأن...
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حتىٰ الآن لا تصلح الهواتف الجوَّالة إلَّا للأزواج الخا...
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But is the unicorn a falsehood? It's the sweetest of animals and a noble symbol. It stands for Chris...
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L'essere umano è davvero una creatura straordinaria. Ha scoperto il fuoco, edificato città, scritt...
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To survive, you must tell stories.
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Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn...
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Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tact...
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Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty part...
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The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer,
the wheel. Once invented it cannot be improve...
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The outcast lepers would like to drag everything down in their ruin. And they become all the more ev...
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The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body.
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Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep...
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For centuries, as pope and emperor tore each other apart in their quarrels over power, the excluded ...
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The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are th...
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I'd lost all faith in everything, except for the certainty that there's always someone behind our ba...
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And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most lovi...
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All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are...
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But why do some people support [the heretics]?"
"Because it serves their purposes, which conce...
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