Lol. ❤

Metal...Gear? Colonel!

Budget metal gear be like 😂

yeah it's the little chicken metal gear mark ii robot from snatcher and metal gear solid 4 😉

As long as it's not in sitting mode 6:20 🤭🤭🤭

I didn't expect to laugh so hard reading this😅

Indeed, I thought it would be something in the hundreds area, I was not expecting that much.

With built-in ai

What you need to understand is a robotic platform and the functions robot can perform are developed separately. People say they want useful robots, this thing can clearly navigate human environments quickly. So what do you want it to do? Buy it as a development platform, add your own tools on top and this robot can be exactly what you want. A competitive useful robotic platform in the lowest price backet you can buy robots in period. This company killed it, absolutely killed it. 3k is a steal, for its specs they could have easily asked double that. Its weird that people don't get the pricing of such tech, but think about tech like Siri, voice recognition software has been in the works for over 60 years. It's not that we couldn't make it it work, it's that there is basically no money to be made. Amazon tried to use it to decrease the threshold to purchase and engage with their webstore and still failed, Apple used it as a tech-gimic during the peak of "innovation" as a buzzword to make their device seem cutting edge. We now use it to set timers and ask about the weather to save us a few thumb swipes. Sometimes the biggest challenge of new technology is matching it with a application so it actually has a real function. Same thing with Spot, upon release it is a development platform, robotics engineers often focus on the the giving it function part, so R&D in companies that make LIDAR units or security related sensors can now integrate their product into the development platform. And now we have automated full time remote access to the insides of fission reactors, or 24/7 patrol of building sites which doubles as a scanning/assesment tool for progress and defect identification etc. Same with drones, thermal cameras and search and rescue units. It takes time, so when you say stuff like "i wish companies would make useful robots" you come across as a complete asshat to the people who are working in and on robotics right now. And adding "in this price range" means you have no clue what you would even want out of a robot let alone in this price range.

I'm actually looking at building something like this. It's such a cool robot

I'm seeing it differently.. $3k+ robot, $35 computer; they made a device that is entirely reliant on computer logic but spent 1 percent of the budget on computer logic. A $200 increase on $3000 would not dissuade potential customers and would increase its useful applications so many times over. I would totally buy one with a pi if it were about a quarter of the size and a quarter of the price.

@@c4pt1n54no Can't disagree with that. I was mainly looking at what they have the Pi doing with the self balancing + voice recognition etc. I love seeing how much devs can squeeze out of limited hardware :)

Thr RPi is probably something like a highlevel driver. All the motion and balancing calculations needs to be done in realtime and probably have dedicated microcontrollers taking care of it.

Closer to $3k according to the website. Still pretty steep but way less than I'd expect.

@@TheRealAlpha2 yeah true, I was looking at the AI one which is sold out for $10k.

or a very handy beverage delivery bot that one can't live with out.

Or you could post the prices....

$2,899.00 marked down $1,000 from $3,899.00 I do several hours of research most every day, & sometimes it's difficult for me to come back around to every individual thing I learned about. I like to research robots & AI but when people don't mention a price it's kinda easy to assume it's likely not very affordable to the average person.

@@fl1ntlock1 Its reviewer job not random commenters

Adult rc car

That's too pricey for my wallet. 😂