This paper describes a hammering robot with a flexible link which can hit an object from an arbitrary direction in a 3-D space. A dynamical equation of a flexible link hammer is presented by taking gravity into consideration. The conditions that the hammer can strike an object flatwise with only a normal velocity to its face are investigated. And a manipulating method to satisfy the hitting conditions is obtained.
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