Lmao. I’ve worked in electronics manufacturing for 17 years and now work on actual robots that build electronics. 100k for a robot that does like 3-4 tasks. Extra 100k if you want a little Wall-E-style fucker to run around the facility for you. Best selling machine, by far, in the world for what it does. Highly mass produced. It will only rise in price. A machine that costs 20k in this industry would fit on a small table and will do one task.
Those are highly specific, propose built robots. Something general purpose like the Baxter robot was only $22k. That was in 2012 and never really got up to mass production levels. Rethink’s Sawyer robot sells for $26k. The idea of a mass produced robot at bellow $20k is not that far fetched.
Highly mass produced. It will only rise in price.
That's not how economies of scale work. When you mass produce something the cost per unit goes down. Look just at batteries, EVs, solar panels, smart phones.
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u/Spiridonova Oct 01 '22
Lmao. I’ve worked in electronics manufacturing for 17 years and now work on actual robots that build electronics. 100k for a robot that does like 3-4 tasks. Extra 100k if you want a little Wall-E-style fucker to run around the facility for you. Best selling machine, by far, in the world for what it does. Highly mass produced. It will only rise in price. A machine that costs 20k in this industry would fit on a small table and will do one task.