Petoi Bittle – a programmable robot dog
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Re: Petoi Bittle – a programmable robot dog
#2Is it just me, or is $269 monstrously expensive for some injection moulded plastic, plastic geared servo motors, an arduino compatible board, a battery and some connectivity modules?
Re: Petoi Bittle – a programmable robot dog
#3Is it just me, or is $269 monstrously expensive for some injection moulded plastic, plastic geared servo motors, an arduino compatible board, a battery and some connectivity modules?
I presume the value is in the associated open source software. You could obviously build your own for less in hardware costs, but once you've put in the effort of doing so, you will have spent far more of your time on the project than the cost of the ready-made product. You're paying for the bundling and the convenience.
Re: Petoi Bittle – a programmable robot dog
#4Is it just me, or is $269 monstrously expensive for some injection moulded plastic, plastic geared servo motors, an arduino compatible board, a battery and some connectivity modules?
The Sony Aibo harkens back to the late 1990s. It was (roughly) the same, but cost >$2000 in 1990s dollars. TLDR: It's not expensive.
Re: Petoi Bittle – a programmable robot dog
#5Is it just me, or is $269 monstrously expensive for some injection moulded plastic, plastic geared servo motors, an arduino compatible board, a battery and some connectivity modules?
The Sony Aibo harkens back to the late 1990s. It was (roughly) the same, but cost >$2000 in 1990s dollars. TLDR: It's not expensive.
A luxury product for early adopters that looks great and works out of the box does not seem roughly the same to me than a device you still ultimately have to calibrate, expand (the default model of this doesn't even have a camera iirc) and program loads to do anything.
Re: Petoi Bittle – a programmable robot dog
#6Is it just me, or is $269 monstrously expensive for some injection moulded plastic, plastic geared servo motors, an arduino compatible board, a battery and some connectivity modules?
There's also PuppyPi which looks quite a bit more solid (but is also more expensive)
https://www.hiwonder.com/products/puppypi?variant=3977603314...
Re: Petoi Bittle – a programmable robot dog
#7Is it just me, or is $269 monstrously expensive for some injection moulded plastic, plastic geared servo motors, an arduino compatible board, a battery and some connectivity modules?
There's also PuppyPi which looks quite a bit more solid (but is also more expensive) https://www.hiwonder.com/products/puppypi?variant=3977603314...
Unitree Go2 for $1600 is wildly capable.
Re: Petoi Bittle – a programmable robot dog
#8Is it just me, or is $269 monstrously expensive for some injection moulded plastic, plastic geared servo motors, an arduino compatible board, a battery and some connectivity modules?
The bill of materials might not come close to that number, but materials are not the only cost when creating a hardware product. In your end price you need to factor in stuff like time spent on research, designing, testing, prototyping, writing & debugging software. Then there's manufacturing, packaging, storage, marketing and probably others. When you take all these into account plus the fact that this will not sell in millions of units, the price suddenly doesn't seem that high.
And from a consumer point of view - a very technical person could probably pull off something similar to this, but the amount of hours a project like this would take a single person is probably in the hundreds and you would not approach the quality of this unless you invested a lot of money into equipment (assuming you don't own high quality 3d printers and other things required to build this).
Re: Petoi Bittle – a programmable robot dog
#9Is it just me, or is $269 monstrously expensive for some injection moulded plastic, plastic geared servo motors, an arduino compatible board, a battery and some connectivity modules?
bro how much did you pay for your car that is presumably around 1000kg?
Re: Petoi Bittle – a programmable robot dog
#10Is it just me, or is $269 monstrously expensive for some injection moulded plastic, plastic geared servo motors, an arduino compatible board, a battery and some connectivity modules?
If you sell hw products and you're not charging at least 4x parts costs you will go bankrupt.