The average American drives 45,000 miles in three years, but a car operated 20⁄7 (like your robot) would accumulate about a million miles in that timeframe. Probably it would go through 2 engines and 3 transmissions if it could even be kept on the road. All things being equal it would need 22x as much maintenance than the average of the US fleet, so probably more like 220% of the capital cost.
A really nice printer/photocopier-combo costs about $10,000 like your robot, and is built from of motors, cameras, and computers just like your robot. While it’s mature technology and built to generally high quality standards, if you try running copies 24⁄7 you will quickly be on a first-name basis with local Kyocera guy.
The average American drives 45,000 miles in three years, but a car operated 20⁄7 (like your robot) would accumulate about a million miles in that timeframe. Probably it would go through 2 engines and 3 transmissions if it could even be kept on the road. All things being equal it would need 22x as much maintenance than the average of the US fleet, so probably more like 220% of the capital cost.
A really nice printer/photocopier-combo costs about $10,000 like your robot, and is built from of motors, cameras, and computers just like your robot. While it’s mature technology and built to generally high quality standards, if you try running copies 24⁄7 you will quickly be on a first-name basis with local Kyocera guy.
That’s helpful! Makes me think the all in hardware costs could be off by a factor of 2x.