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I've noticed the same thing and have been actively working over the past 5 years trying to make introductory robotics approachable.

I've been a software developer for a long time, but robotics always felt like a mystery to me until I had someone show me the basics. I recently started a small company trying to teach the basics of robotics. The biggest challenge is that robotics have a real price attached that normal software development doesn't have associated.

With Javascript, I just need a text editor and a browser, but with Robotics I have to make the leap and purchase a kit and trust that the kit will do enough to teach me what I need to know to get started.

We designed and built a low-cost kit and have been using it in middle-schools throughout the southeast teaching kids the introduction, and so far that's been working really well.