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Ep 58 - Why is Hardware So Expensive?

31 min • 9 april 2025

In the 58th episode of Automate It, Polymath Robotics co-founders Stefan Seltz-Axmacher and Ilia Baranov discuss why hardware for robots is so dang expensive.

But first, they play the robot invention game and come up with a humanoid axe murderer.

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Ep 17 - How Do the Current Economic Conditions Impact Robotics?

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Ep 16 - Roombas & VCs - The Battle for Clean Floors and Funding

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Ep 15 - Construction Robots at CONEXPO

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Ep 14 - The Downsides of Consultants Building your Robots

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Ep 13 - The Shutdown of Everyday Robots (& Why Big Companies aren't Safer for Robotics)

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Ep 12 - Robotics Demos Gone Wrong

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Ep 11 - How to Choose the Right Sensors

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Ep 10 - Is Teach-and-Repeat Really Autonomy?

3 februari 2023 | 27 min

Ep 9 - Why MVPs in Robotics are Different than SaaS

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Ep 8 - CES & the State of Autonomy

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Ep 7 - Did Google Just Buy ROS?

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Ep 6 - How to Measure Robots

15 december 2022 | 42 min

Ep 5 - Is the Autonomy Industry Dead?

9 december 2022 | 36 min

Ep 4 - How to Kill an Autonomy Project

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Ep 3 - Teleoperation and art

16 november 2022 | 42 min

Ep 2 - The Time Ilia Danced with a Robot

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Ep 1 - Welcome to Automate It

2 november 2022 | 51 min

Ep 58 - Why is Hardware So Expensive?

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Ep 62 – The Billion-Dollar Blind Spot in Enterprise Robotics

Ep 61 - The Three Laws of Robotics

Ep 60 - Does Nobody Care About Driver-Out Anymore?

Ep 59 - David LaRose from Carnegie Robotics on the Reality of Robotics

Ep 58 - Why is Hardware So Expensive?

Ep 57 - Vertical vs Horizontal Integration in Tech

Ep 56 - The Pitfalls of Traditional Collision Avoidance Systems

Ep 55 - Adrian from Foxglove on the State of Robotics Today

Ep 54 - What Makes a Robot "Safe Enough"?

Ep 53 - Takeaways from CES 2025

Ep 52 - The Demise of Cruise (& What it Means for Your Autonomy Program)

Ep 51 - Hype vs Reasonable Robots

Ep 50 - Beneath the Surface: Robots Under Water

Ep 49 - Big Robots at MINEXPO and Tesla's Robot "Demo"

Ep 48 - What's Hard About AMRs

Ep 47 - Robots for the Military

Ep 46 - How Do You Regulate Robots?

Ep 45 - Why Doesn't Starlink Solve All the Problems?

Ep 44 - Ahoy, Matey! There Be Robots on this Ship

Ep 43 - The Tradeoffs of Vertical Robotics Companies

Ep 42 - That Radar is So Hot Right Now

Ep 41 - The Dirt on Dirt

Ep 40 - Ed Niedermeyer Talks Tesla

Ep 39 - The Reluctant AI Episode

Ep 38 - Why People Took our April Fools Joke Seriously

Ep 37 - Why Robots are "Default Blocked"

Ep 36 - Questions VCs Ask Us

Ep 35 - Is Tech "Over" Autonomy?

Ep 34 - The State of VC in Robotics

Ep 33 - No GPS? No Problem

Ep 32 - Is It Possible to Have Sensor Overkill?

Ep 31 - Let's Play with the Astro Robot

Ep 30 - Is Robotics Data the New Oil?

Ep 29 - Is Autonomy a Product?

Ep 28 - Why Are Small Robots So Hard?

Ep 27 - No Code Lasts Forever

Ep 26 - Academic vs Commercial Approaches in Robotics

Ep 25 - Waymo Trucking Shuts Down

Ep 24 - Deep Diving on the OceanGate Submarine

Ep 23 - Is Robotics Really THAT Much Harder than SaaS?

Ep 22 - Is a VR Headset a Robot?

Ep 21 - Onroad Autonomy Woes (&Does it Matter?)

Ep 20 - Nerf Guns Explain Why Robots are Hard

Ep 19 - Request for Robots

Ep 18 - The Top Contributions Open Source Robotics Needs Now (Steve Macenski, Chief Navigator for ROS2)

Ep 17 - How Do the Current Economic Conditions Impact Robotics?

Ep 16 - Roombas & VCs - The Battle for Clean Floors and Funding

Ep 15 - Construction Robots at CONEXPO

Ep 14 - The Downsides of Consultants Building your Robots

Ep 13 - The Shutdown of Everyday Robots (& Why Big Companies aren't Safer for Robotics)

Ep 12 - Robotics Demos Gone Wrong

Ep 11 - How to Choose the Right Sensors

Ep 10 - Is Teach-and-Repeat Really Autonomy?

Ep 9 - Why MVPs in Robotics are Different than SaaS

Ep 8 - CES & the State of Autonomy

Ep 7 - Did Google Just Buy ROS?

Ep 6 - How to Measure Robots

Ep 5 - Is the Autonomy Industry Dead?

Ep 4 - How to Kill an Autonomy Project

Ep 3 - Teleoperation and art

Ep 2 - The Time Ilia Danced with a Robot

Ep 1 - Welcome to Automate It