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Past projects, Manipulation Lab

Dynamic Manipulation - By not grasping, a simple robot with few degrees-of-freedom can control an object with more degrees-of-freedom by exploiting dynamic effects, such as centrifugal and Coriolis forces.	Factory Automation
Palm Pilot Robot Kit - The Palm Pilot Robot Kit is a design for an easy-to-build, fully autonomous robot controlled by a Palm handheld computer.	Pushing - A planner that finds stable pushing plans to move an object from one place to another