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The scalable position approach employs a 6-degress-of-freedom electromechanical stylus whose joint orientations are used by the controlling computer to determine the position and orientation of the robot's end effector via inverse kinematics or by one-to-one matching of the stylus joint angles with those of the manipulator. The isometric method uses the measured forces and torques to define velocities in X-Y-Z and in pitch, roll and yaw of the end effector. The latter is accomplished using the pseudo-inverse Jacobian to define a rate resolved controller, with a novel form of damping to minimize instabilities at singularities. Both forms of telemanipulation have been implemented using Matlab and Simulink. A fully interactive, stereo VRML model of a commercial robot has been developed using the Matlab VRML Toolbox. 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