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I don't think so. I know folks in education where there is huge money and demand for such toys. You still have to prepare great program, tools and have right connection but if you can do it then you get a sell of thousands of robots in one sweep. Virtually every public school (in well off areas) is dying to introduce robotics. Almost every district has some sort of robotics competition going on. When I drive to work, I see about half dozen street signs for robotics/stem summer camps. I might be biased living in tech heavy crowd but I hear its same in districts which have decent amount of money. Besides education, robotics toys is high in demand for kids. Consistently many top 10 Christmas toys have been toys that were claimed to be robots but unfortunately they are just scams with few pre-programmed things. Cosmo is one of the best robot built for kids besides Lego Boost and Mindstorm for older kids. It was definitely bit expensive and lacking good marketing outside of tech crowd but it was a real robotic toy and deserved better outcome.


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