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Eye see you're having surgery: Origami inspires tiny, super-accurate robot surgeon

Dave 126 Silver badge

Re: other research groups have developed more precise robots

You're right, even on contact probes mounted on big CNC machines, the software takes account the of how the carbon fibre probe rod deforms due to its own mass (a known quantity) under acceleration (again, known), and compensates accordingly. This allows the proving to be done faster for the same accuracy.

More rigid ceramic probe rods are also offered as an option.

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