Everyone building robots right now is playing with the same Lego pieces. Same compute modules, same software stack, same ROS dependencies pulling in other dependencies pulling in other dependencies until your system needs hardware it would never need if you'd written your own stack. We call it dependency hell. The robotics industry is living in it. The reason for this is understandable. Someone decided they needed to ship fast. They looked at what already existed. They used it. Then the next team did the same. And now you have a generation of humanoid robots that are basically thin clients — beautifully designed shells that call a cloud server for everything that matters. We decided not to do that. Here's what that decision actually cost us. The hardware got more expensive. When your robot is a thin client, your compute requirements are trivial. You need enough processing power to make a network call and interpret a response.…