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Engineers working on the prosaically named Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) in the Chilean Atacama Desert were faced with several daunting challenges. One of them was to devise a positioning subsystem ...

This article is part of a series of articles based on common questions in robotics. The previous article dealt with the question: What is a robot? Robots are machines designed to perform tasks – ...