After designing and building a new robot and developing real-time software techniques for it, I then ask our state-of-the-art cnc manufacturing laboratory to build ten copies.

These robots are then used as the "smart product" in the Smart Product Design course that I teach.
Here are three examples
(left) A microprocessor, digitally controlled, angular displacement servomechanism
(right) A 3dof leg module
(down) A six-legged, omni-directional walking robot