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Re: wink wink

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Originally Posted by Pavan View Post
It is common to see the same design used in previous years. Although this is usually only true with drive trains and bases, this is becoming more and more of a reality with manipulators too. There are only soo many different things you can do, and eventually it gets repeated. The neat thing is though that when it does there are more mods on the newer versions and they [usually] work better.
330 used the same basic manipulator setup in 2007 as in 2005, but changed the gearing and the arm to fit the game. Other than the end effector and the cross-section, they looked the same.
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