Intel's 3D Printed Robot

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story imageIntel plans to offer a consumer grade 3D printed robot for $1600 later this year. Jimmy, a desktop robot , will include an Intel chip and be programmable using open source tools.
The hardware designs will be freely available online, allowing anyone with access to a 3-D printer to generate and assemble the basic parts.

The grand vision is to lower the barrier of entry to robotics.

But Why Not Just Sell The Plastic Parts? (Score: 1, Insightful)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-05-29 18:31 (#1YS)

Who are we kidding here? All the real meat of the robotics and electronics are being delivered separately. All that the 3D printer is doing is producing plastic parts... slowly, roughly, and very inefficiently.

I'm not against it, but there's a huge hype train on 3D printing.

Why wouldn't this "kit" just also include the plastic shell parts, efficiently and cheaply mass produced in a real factory?

Is it really that thrilling for aging geeks to watch plastic getting melted in person?
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