I replayed in another comment, seems like it is way better to buy minipupper that is also servos based, it does not make sense spending so much on servos based robot, arguably, it is better to spend 1300+ building bot with actual motors Lorcan[1] alike (there others with 6 motors, if recall correctly).

https://github.com/222464/Lorcan-Mini

Quite affordable as a pet: it is less than a real dog from a dog breeder :-).

Or you could adopt for a nominal fee and help a dog in need.

A real dog is way more responsibility - you gotta walk it, feed it, keep it clean and healthy. It's quite expensive even if you adopt and it is no small task. A robo dog at worse is a few hundred in parts - no worse than a single vet visit and charging the battery.

Yeah I meant adopting instead of buying a dog from a breeder as the comment I replied to was suggesting.

Suggesting random people to adopt a pet, is in my opinion wrong, unless you know the person well. Pets are not a thing, they need care, responsibility, time, additional budget and other factors you could include if you are gonna have a baby.

Yeah I meant adopting instead of buying a dog from a breeder as the comment I replied to was suggesting.

The BoM has a lot of overpriced versions of common parts, as well.

It's not quite as bad as it seems at first blush.