Industrial robots are getting much cheaper. The controllers and electronics to drive them are now fairly commodity as is the low level control software. You cou

Industrial robots are getting much cheaper. The controllers and electronics to drive them are now fairly commodity as is the low level control software. You could easily get Fanuc style arm robots in the sub-100k nowadays. The real limitation is still programming and training the robots. I'm just entering this field, and its fun but yah it takes a team of expensive talented engineers to do it. Especially if you're automating to a higher degree. The progress with AI has been huge but I'd guess on the order of a decade before its commonplace.