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The community continues to treat manipulation as an isolated end-effector problem, ignoring the reality that in unstructured environments, every physical contact is a collision and thus a dynamic event. For decades, commercial hardware has been optimized for stiffness and precision, resulting in effective endpoint masses an order of magnitude heavier than a human arm. This creates a severe impedance mismatch: unplanned contact results in undesired energy transfer, especially when interacting with lightweight objects that have fast dynamic timescales. To address this fundamental limitation, we introduce AthenaZero. Designed to minimize system inertia without sacrificing control authority, AthenaZero achieves a human-equivalent effective endpoint mass. This architecture natively supports the physics of impact, enabling a suite of dynamic manipulation tasks including throwing, catching, batting, and juggling. 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