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Measuring the cable tension is an important task in this type of robot as many control algorithms rely on this information. There are several well-known approaches to measure cable tension in cable robots, where a trade-off between complexity and accuracy is observed. This work presents a new device based on strain gauges to measure cable tension specially designed to be applied in cable-driven parallel robots. This device can be easily mounted on the cable near the fixed frame, allowing the cable length and orientation to change freely, while the measure is taken before the cable passes through the guiding pulleys for improved accuracy. 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