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A first sign of the increasing popularity of building robots yourself can be found with the [[DIY]] community. What began with small competitions for remote operated vehicles (e.g. [[Robot combat]]), soon developed to the building of [[autonomous telepresence]] robots as [http://www.sparkyjr.com/ Sparky] and then true robots (being able to take decisions themselves) as the Open Automaton Project and Leaf Project. Certain commercial companies now also produce kits for making simple robots.
 
A recurring problem in the community has been projects, especially on [[Kickstarter]], promidingpromising to fully open-source their hardware and then reneging on this promise once funded, in order to profit from being the sole manufacturer and seller.
 
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