LOL, made in North America is good.

I hope they support V3 and V4.

ARC will continue to support the v3 for as long as we can We will give you notice before it is end of life. Although, we will most likely branch two ARCs for each EZ-B version.

Making in North America sounds good, but it costs literally 10 times as much. Put it this way, the quotes we received from north American manufacturers would cost over $100 per unit in quantities of 1,000's to manufacture the EZ-B - that's without markup for the business to operate (i.e. staff, website, software development, etc.). Also, the time frame quotes we received from North American manufacturers would have the product shipping in Fall 2014.

The few hundred that we are getting manufactured in Canada for the pre-orders are costing us more than we sold them for. We lose tens and tens thousands of dollars by manufacturing them in Canada. However, it's not all being done by a manufacturer to assemble the units. We are doing most of the work in-house to save money, which takes us away from doing our real job - which is adding new features and programming the software to make the product better

Trust me, it's not that we don't continue to try and try and try to have these manufactured in North America. We're constantly receiving quotes - but the time frame and costs do not co-operate with our vision. We cannot sell EZ-B v4's for $299 to you - that's just not fair - specifically since we can have the work done overseas for a fraction of the cost. And anyone who has experience with our v3's know our chose of oversea factories produce great quality.

China gets a lot of negativity from North America, and I respect that Americans feel the Chinese are taking away the work - but the fact remains that North American manufacturing costs are just not fair to the consumer. If at any point we could find a North American manufacturer to match our prices, we would switch in a heartbeat - You have my word on that!

I for one totally understand where DJ is coming from, it's just like shopping in your hometown for something, but then you look online and you can buy it so much cheaper even with the postage :-{ I rarely shop in my town anymore, I just order online, I might have to wait a few days, but it saves me money :-} The only things I shop for here in my town are cloths and groceries anymore :-{ Sad to say times have changed, well actually it's corporate greed has gotten worse :-{

You're right, it is sad. You wouldn't believe how many north American companies we contacted. On top of that, you wouldn't believe how many gave us attitude! Most were not confident that the product would sell and wanted nothing to do with robotics - others never got back to us.

I'm the most positive person I know - I have faith that someday EZ-Robot will be manufactured entirely in North America

DJ I totally understand your dilemma and the trade-offs that must happen in order to get a business on track. I applaud your many efforts to keep your customer base content as you keep the company headed towards your goals.

I'm in year three of my business plan and no profits yet. stress

Use ARC and the EZ-Bs to build robots that build robots

There would be a video of Johnny 5 making robots here but youtube doesn't have that scene lol.

You got me Rich. Exactly my agenda. EZ-b just made industrial manufacturing robots accessible to the garage builder. Hence dropping labor costs and single handedly making everyone an entrepreneur. I already have designs on how to cheaply make MY products. Very cheap industrial robots made from parts I already have access to.

I'm quite sure the V4 can be programmed to build itself.