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by pmorais 2443 days ago
You’re not the intended audience. This is meant for small research labs that are just starting up and want to enter the RL/Robotics research space and can’t afford a $400,000 PR2 or $150,000 shadow hand.
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Totally worth the money :)

https://youtu.be/c3Cq0sy4TBs

"The Proud Robot", Henry Kuttner, Astounding 1943

https://www.prosperosisle.org/spip.php?article863

You can buy a meca500 for 15k USD. If you are just doing learning stuff, it should be more than adequate.
How do you know these prices? I generally find these companies do not publish them on their websites
Hardly secret around institutions that have them.