Comment by pixl97

>very hard to get into and make something that works reliably at a reasonable cost, from a solo developer point of view

I mean yes, otherwise they'd be even more robotic stuff wandering about

In products they have the trade off triangle where you can pick things like fast-cheap-good, pick any two.

In robots it's cheap-reliable-featureful pick any one.

The problem with the term 'cool' is it sets no boundaries. Those constraints limit your costs and scope. That's the hard part for most people when they think about cool.

And reliable is more of a time factor (+effort). QA on products takes a massive amount of time and effort to figure out what is not reliable.