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“ Programming one robot manipulator to assemble another robot manipulator is not a trivial task. The finest level of detail involves controlling the individual steps of the various stepping motors which in turn control the independent degrees of freedom of the manipulator. ”

“ In current industrial robotics applications, each manipulator has a very limited number of tasks to perform. To use one manipulator to perform a many tasks, each of the complexity required by the SRS demonstration, the state-of-the-art in robot programming should be advanced considerably. ”

“ However, the team has no doubt that a suitably powerful computer can be constructed in a module not exceeding 1 m3 in volume, which would also serve as a base for an advanced robot manipulator. Spaulding estimated that 5 years of adequate funding and manpower support could probably produce a robot manipulator system capable of assembling a duplicate of itself from prefabricated parts. ”