They used off-the-shelf parts to cobble collectively robots with more cheap price tags in the tens, not lots of, of 1000’s. But new, cheaper robots are allowing extra researchers to do cool stuff. A new robot known as Stretch, developed by startup Hello Robot, launched during the pandemic with a a lot more reasonable price ticket of around $18,000 and a weight of fifty pounds. It has a small cellular base, a persist with a digicam dangling off it, an adjustable arm featuring a gripper with suction cups at the ends, and it might be controlled with a console controller.…