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by kbumsik 2558 days ago
Teaching how to code is constructive and creative btw. If you don't want the turret you can simply do so.
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the main question is: for what purpose

here it is fighting... This particular robot though is hard to repurpose (e.g. put additional sensors on top, e.g. to measure things or additional actors to move things or have other meaningful impact)

commercially it makes sense, like a facebook bubble does, educationally it is limited

Have you watched a youtube video?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GpdoJXpo2U

You can use "macros" in the fight. Regardless, this robot is a vision-enabled robot after all. You can use it as a ordinary AI robot anyway. I think the price still make sense as there are few consumer programmable robots with mecanum wheels.