Here is the coolest RC car I've ever seen, and only $24,000!
I'll bet it took a long while to fab up the first one and program it, getting all those parts to interface without binding or having too loose or tight a tolerance, multiple subroutines for each motion to make it all look smooth and work properly. That's a heap of engineering. Lots of man-weeks.
Now to figure out exciting new places to use the technology...