I have thousands of dollars to spend on something like this if it had an arm and could do things like get items from the fridge by verbal order (with no step by step programming, just visual recognition of the fridge and how to open it), play catch with the dog, sweep up, act as a security guard when I&#x27;m gone, etc.<p>Robotics is one of those things where the hardware, price, and networking are there but the software isn&#x27;t. We don&#x27;t have an AI-lite engine we can toss in for simple things a dog could understand like &quot;get my slippers.&quot;  Until someone cracks that code, this stuff is just going to be rich-boy novelties and unneeded contenders in the already over-saturated telepresence market.