Designing a Robot using LabVIEW

Hi ALL,
I would like to ask if anybody could suggest me a book or a link to design a robot using LabVIEW. Besides, anybody could share a simple VI of robot designing so that I could understand better on it.
Thank you.
Firdaus

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