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clemΒ 
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Should we assemble affordable open-source robots at Hugging Face for the community. Would you buy them? At what price?

I don't know if robots are like chatbots, or if they're physical robot arms with servo motors, or if they're like Roombas...
In any case, I don't have enough money to buy a robot, but it looks like fun to look at.πŸ˜†

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Open source extensions for Roombas would be so good! Like, could I add an arm and a trailer to my Roomba so it can pickup large objects whilst vacuuming.

For around 80 euros I can by a Raspberry Pi 4 kit, so I would expect a robot kit to be the same

Yes please, robot on whells probably like a rumba with backbone support which can shrink and grow and rotate over it self and with two arms. Make it open source and openhardware and that as much of the parts as possible can be printed on a 3D printer and electronics and mechanics(servo motors) be available online for retailers so people can fix it or assamble new one on their own. I would pay 500 USD which is like a big Rumba aspirator robot. I can wait to assamble my own team of robots and train them to do my house shores but i think it could be great for people with dishabilities having one of those around them in the house to help them.

Here is good example of baseline:-

Its all depends on what type of robots they are, what are their capabilities?

Is it just an arm that can be programmed to grab stuff and move across a table. I feel like thats not very useful for most people. But is it a walking robot with arms that can pick stuff up and bring it to you from the other side of the house, now that has some applications.

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Its all depends on what type of robots they are, what are their capabilities?

Is it just an arm that can be programmed to grab stuff and move across a table. I feel like thats not very useful for most people. But is it a walking robot with arms that can pick stuff up and bring it to you from the other side of the house, now that has some applications.

All they really need to do is carry a gun and have a shifting red eye for a camera.