Suppress mate in animation?

I need to animate a robot and show that robot moving a pieceof material from one location then dropping that piece of materialin another location. I had hoped to do this by suppressing the matebetween the robot and the part so that when the robot retracts thepart will stay but I cannot find a way to suppress a mate at aparticular point during the animation.

I am using sw2007sp4.0.


Is this possible?

Thanks,

SamSolidworksMotion Studies