The GP was referring to "hardware companies not manufacturing consumer or IOT widgets". Anybots is obviously manufacturing consumer widgets.
There are spaces where even a small prototype will easily run into the six figures in pricing.
There are spaces where even a small prototype will easily run into the six figures in pricing.
It sounds like they might be suggesting that a smaller prototype can be shown to customers. 3D printing in particular can help with that; I think Valve demo’d a new controller that was partly 3D printed several years ago.