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The main focus on the robotics side of this book is on mobile robots. However, we also want to give a brief introduction to the area of stationary manipulators, as they still form the vast majority of all commercial robot systems.

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Bräunl, T. (2022). Robot Manipulators. In: Embedded Robotics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0804-9_13

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