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The performance in dex encapsulates the robot kinematics and dynamics, robot pose, the task and motor torques. The index is examined under var ious conditions: low, medium and high levels of motor torque. We assume that the linearized robot dynamics are a perfect rep resentation of the real-world robot and that the sensors are ideal and unfettered by noise. Results are obtained under each of these conditions and we also derive the expression for the best possi ble task-space performance. Task-space performance is related to more physically meaningful quantities such as robot bandwidth and RMS motor torque. Given actual motor torque limits, the theoret ical RMS torque calculations allow us to ascertain realistic levels of performance for the real-world robot. 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