Dear Subscribers,

Thank you again for your interest in ParalleMIC. As promised, we deliver to
you this first issue of the ParalleMIC Newsletter which has a rather
telegraphic style.

Yours sincerely,

Ilian Bonev


December 18, 2000
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--SITE UPDATES--
* The bibliography database was filled with 201 records.

--NEW LINKS--
* WireMan - a 3-DOF wire haptic device based on a tripod
  (http://www-lar.deis.unibo.it/activities/videt/mechanics.html).
* A 3-DOF piezoelectric microtelemanipulator
  (http://ad.tut.fi/aci/projects/mm/).
* R&D centers working on parallel mechanisms in Italy
  (http://www.parallemic.org/WhosWho/RDCentersIT.html).

--COMING UP--
* A review on haptic devices based on parallel mechanisms is being currently
  prepared by Lionel Birglen.
* A review on planar 3-RRR parallel manipulators is soon to be published.

--ANNOUNCEMENTS--
* ParalleMIC pops up as one of the first results when searching in AltaVista
  for "parallel mechanisms", "parallel kinematic machines", and the like.

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