The actual manufacture of a robot, depending on its scope of automation, ranges from inexpensive to insane. Most industrial robots are in the upper middle.
Some simple robots are cheap, mostly mechanical.
So, just making one overlaps both our points of view.Setting mechanical ones aside, the programming, test, safety, and depending on what is needed, interactions between multiple ones is very expensive!A seat of software can cost a years wage for an assembly line worker, and the people needed to do this work tend to be highly educated and expensive as well.That can change, and maybe will as tech advances and […]
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