A control method for a surgical robotic arm, a computer device and a surgical robotic arm are provided. The control method includes calculating a telecentric fixed point on an executing rod according to a target point and controlling a preoperative positioning assembly to advance a first movable platform of a telecentric manipulating assembly along a first coordinate axis of a movable coordinate system; calculating a first origin coordinate of an origin of the first movable platform in a stationary coordinate system according to the coordinate of the telecentric fixed point and the trajectory coordinate of an end point; calculating the length of a first telescopic element of the telecentric manipulating assembly according to the coordinates of a hinge point of the telecentric manipulating assembly in the stationary coordinate system; and controlling the first movable platform to move to a designated pose.

A construction robot for carrying out construction work on a construction site object includes a mobile platform, an end effector, where the end effector has a tool or a tool fitting and where the end effector has a contact element which is configured to contact the construction site object, a parallel manipulator, where the end effector and the mobile platform are connected to one another via the parallel manipulator, and a sensor system, where a pose of the end effector relative to the mobile platform is detectable by the sensor system.

A method of manufacturing an article, including using coordinate measuring machine both to obtain three-dimensional point coordinate measurements of first part of article in place and to position a second part of article in predetermined spatial relationship relative to first part in dependence upon measurements of first part. Predetermined spatial relationship is defined in more than three degrees of freedom. Positioning second part relative to first part includes controlling machine to move second part relative to first part in more than three degrees of freedom. Machine is controlled to hold first and second parts in predetermined spatial relationship while performing an operation to fix both parts in predetermined spatial relationship. Second part is not in direct contact with any other part of article when first and second parts are in predetermined spatial relationship, at least not in a manner which would interfere with or influence or affect predetermined spatial relationship.