There are some details of their predicament I have not looked into... to be determined

These are a set of type of servo that is part of an open-source standard (Hugging Faces's LeRobot), the formation of which counted on free-trade (cheap, universal).

The minimum wage is one way the people choose what businesses should exist (within democratic control), setting the parameters of the business of the economy.

We have to beat the industry at integrating robots, and this is the last chance we get, otherwise the next huge ownership-tech alliance is implemented and (non-owning) human jobs are gone.

The industry that writes the robot code/models is concentrated for now on distant factories. It is in this window that society can make "room" for robots responsibly (with software I believe), before the industry can assert its job-displacing offers to smaller businesses.

I think our only hope of bulldozing the alliance between ownership by the few and the robot/automation industry is with software.