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Abstract
The market for programmable machines is still in its infancy, awaiting major changes in machine architectures and functionality. This paper anticipates the evolution of modular distributed manipulator systems and outlines their potential role as generic reconfigurable manufacturing machines. The necessary functionality of the control and mechanical primitive elements of such systems will be described with reference to major SERC-funded research aimed at evolving the primitives of universal machine control systems.