Comment by AndrewKemendo

It’s incredibly easy but for some reason seems hard

But no matter what you need an actual physical robot I have never once seen anyone actually transition into robotics without them having made the commitment of spending $100s or $1000s on a capable robot. Very capable robots are in that range at this point.

1.Figure out what you want the robot to do. This is the hardest part, cause it requires constraining your desires considerably

2. Figure out how you want to make it do that. Do you want a deterministic robot? Do you want a robot that uses inference?

3. Then buy the robot that can do the physical action. If your task is to move groceries from your car into the house, you have much different requirements than if its a linear actuator flipping a static switch

4. Choose your robotic actuation path: Dedicated embedded controller (FPGA, PLC), controller coupled with another switch, autopilot etc…

Test, iterate, test….