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Re: COTS: How far should it go?
Simple moving parts - such as bearings. Seriously?
This conversation is drawing a lot of heated attention.
I see it as teams learning between design engineering and systems engineering and that's great.
I see more functional robots than I have in years. Bring on more components, limit the complete assemblies.
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