Still a long way to go on the road for parallel mechanisms

After spending alwost 20 years in the laboratories for preliminary studies parallel robots are now used in real-life applications in domains such as fine positioning devices, motion generators, ultra-fast pick and place robot and will probably find their use in the field of machine-tools, medical application, haptic devices... This interest come from the potentially interesting features of parallel mechanisms, the most noticable being:

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