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Although modern industrial robots are only a few decades old, their antecedents are mechanisms and linkages, which have centuries of history. Indeed, examples like cranes and other lifting devices are among the oldest machines used by humans.

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Selig, J.M. (1996). Introduction. In: Geometrical Methods in Robotics. Monographs in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2484-4_1

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