I'm guessing at numbers from my limited experience, but a new robot development (let's say with some sophisticated features either hardware or software--not bot

I'm guessing at numbers from my limited experience, but a new robot development (let's say with some sophisticated features either hardware or software--not both) is probably a 20-50 person development. Salary (in normal land, not crazy west coast land) for a 2.5 year development is 6-15 million. Material cost runs 10-40% more. So expect something like 4-10 new robot platforms coming out as a result of this. In a market where there's not a plethora of vendors, that's respectable. If anyone has more direct experience I'd be happy to be corrected.