"its easy to build a lego robot to do something like that, its MUCH harder to program it to do it by itself."
Actually you have that backwards. Designing and building this sort of thing is by far the hardest part. Programming it to perform this particular operation would be relatively easy.
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"its easy to build a lego robot to do something like that, its MUCH harder to program it to do it by itself."
Actually you have that backwards. Designing and building this sort of thing is by far the hardest part. Programming it to perform this particular operation would be relatively easy.