As difficult as it is, control for launching and landing a rocket is vastly easier computationally than even apparently simple robotics problems. Robotics is s

As difficult as it is, control for launching and landing a rocket is vastly easier computationally than even apparently simple robotics problems. Robotics is simply hard, from algorithmic, computational, and engineering perspectives. Only some parts of it can be solved by throwing money and raw compute power at it. Even in areas where progress has been made, you generally need experts to decompose the problem at hand into something that can be tackled with existing techniques,and those experts are expensive and in relative demand.