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Please add that image to this post.

re: your error: that's not going to work.

You're asking the robot to go in a straight line in a direction in which it cannot move any more (due to the pose it's currently in).

Put it in a more neutral pose, with its elbow bent, so the lower arm is parallel to the ground plane.

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