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The following scheme for designing a general-purpose manipulator organ has many theoretical attractions. The basic idea is perhaps best conceived as a theoretical, or mathematical, idea. While it is unlikely that the actual system will be very much like it, it may have value as a sort of ideal against whose elegance we can match engineering and practical compromise.
