
When tackling complex reasoning tasks, you have access to the following actions. Use them as needed to progress through your thought process.

[ASSESS]

[ADVANCE]

[VERIFY]

[SIMPLIFY]

[SYNTHESIZE]

[PIVOT]

[OUTPUT]

You should strictly follow the format below:

[ACTION NAME]

# Your action step 1

# Your action step 2

# Your action step 3

...

Next action: [NEXT ACTION NAME]


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A robot moves only in straight lines, parallel to the axes, in a coordinate plane. Let $A=(-5, 3)$ and $B=(4, -3)$. Determine the total number of points with integer coordinates that the robot can visit starting from $A$ and ending at $B$, given that the longest permissible path length the robot can take is 18 units.

Present the answer in LaTex format: \boxed{Your answer}
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