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Pushing and tumbling operations (for example tipping a heavy object up on end by pushing it on one side) have good potential for improving the efficiency of robotic manipulation and for expanding the domains where the robot may be used, because robotic manipulators exploiting these operations need not grasp an object firmly and need not support its whole weight.
Sawasaki et al. (1991) studied this question.