The latter, by analogy, is designed like a car that requires 200 pounds of force to press the gas peddle.

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And he reached out with his fingers and he plucked them out, and he said--he estimated that he'd used one and a half pounds of force.

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Two: In the course of designing Stompy, the Project Hexapod crew developed a position-controlled hydraulic actuator capable of generating 18, 000 pounds of force with a two-foot stroke that's two orders of magnitude cheaper that comparable hardware.

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