The subhead reads: “Manoi AT01 kit contains 200 tiny screws and a 100-page manual.” The level of your hardware hacking/building geekitude could perhaps be measured by your reaction to that line. If 200 screws and a thick manual make you wanna hide your head and call out for your mamma, robot building is probably not for you. If such implied complexity and miniature parts fiddling makes you go all weak in the knee, you’ve come to the right hobby. Unfortunately, short of building junkbots, it’s not a hobby that comes cheap. The Manoi AT01 kit will set you back US$1260 or the Yen equivalent for your nerdy analog in Japan. So far, the maker has not announced plans to sell the 13″ robot overseas.
See our previous item on the Manoi robots.