I should add that the CNC machined parts in this robot were US-made because we happen to have our own CNC shop. If we did not, frankly, I probably would have s

I should add that the CNC machined parts in this robot were US-made because we happen to have our own CNC shop. If we did not, frankly, I probably would have sent them to China for fabrication. The math is simple, if I have parts made outside our shop, the cost, when compared to China, is between 2x and 5x (if not more). It also takes weeks to get parts...unless you pay an insane amount for them. I can get beautifully finished CNC parts from china in three days or so. This means that, in the time and for the cost of making these parts outside our shop I can run two to five design iterations by using CNC parts made in China. This is just one layer of this reality. There are many more.