Slesinger Robots is a long-term personal activity that aims to build an universal robot that can be programmed for various household tasks.
Robotics is an ideal inter-disciplinary activity for studying mechanics, electronics, design, programming, machine learning as well as generic concepts such as planning, creativity, using and building tools, exploring solution space, understanding complex models and patience.
Expensive solutions are intentionally avoided not only for budget constraints but also as a motivation to go an extra mile to put creative efforts into innovative, more affordable alternative.
The word 'robot' was first used to denote a fictional humanoid in a 1920 play R.U.R. by the Czech writer, Karel Čapek but it was Karel's brother Josef Čapek who was the word's true inventor.(wikipedia)
It is an honor to come from the same country as Capek brothers and an obligation to continue the work to build actual robots