Yeah, they should go here price first and make cheap hackable platform that would be awsome.

No pun intended? :)

No, it’s a regular sized Stretch!

$1.8k buys you a mid-range bicycle. $2.5k buys you a high end laptop. Both of those are made in millions. This is roughly a combo of the two.

So I'd guess that with sufficient volume this could get down to the $5k mark.

Unfortunately, looking at it I doubt they would get the price point down to $1.8k easily. Maybe $5k at a push, but more than likely some consumer edition might cost more or less the same.

That said, I doubt this bot will ever make it to the stage of being a consumer bot. The sorts of problems that need to be solved are on the scale of that of autonomous vehicles, probably even harder.

Does it?

Having worked with robotics in mfg, part of the cost is stiffness. A stiff arm and mounts means repeatable actions.

In the video this thing was flexing all over the place. It’s cool, no doubt. But it seems a well placed LEGO could nearly shut it down.

I’m not seeing 18k as “cheap” in any sense here. Maybe I just don’t understand the business model or what goes into this.

Instabuy if it can iron too! :)