Which risk dramatically increases when a robotic arm encoder suffers significant backlash?

💡 Explanation

Increased backlash in the encoder causes a discrepancy between measured and actual joint angle positions, feeding errors into the Inverse Kinematics solver because position feedback is inaccurate; therefore positional accuracy sharply degrades with continued movements, rather than other overheating or lubrication risk to adjacent devices.

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