[tamimio]

If you are after it for fun, comments have you covered. If you are after it for work, don't; the community is toxic and full of Dunning-Kruger individuals, gatekept, and there's this weird vouching too. A lot of fraud, either on an individual level by over-marketing themselves to get a job, or at an organizational level where so many demos you see around are mostly not as accurate as they claim, and the last straw is unfortunately a lot of it recently is shifting towards weaponized robotics with all that that means. Also, because all software folks are having a hard time finding jobs, they are flocking into robotics, which has disturbed the balance in supply and demand. It has turned into a competitive field with low wages, and if you complain, there are hundreds willing to take your spot, or you're being told that you work on "cool stuff, so that's your reward!!" In Canada, for example, I have seen "senior robotic engineer" positions with job descriptions enough to build a spaceship that pay 65K Canadian dollars, meanwhile a snowplow operator operating a machine while listening to music makes 110K. So the juice isn't worth the squeeze now, but if you are after fun cool projects, then by all means please do. I would love to see more robotics content here on HN.