The <i>shock</i> when you opened up the Armatron expecting a series of electronically controlled motors and found out it contained instead only a single motor that ran continuously and an incredibly ingenious and entirely mechanical train of linkages and gears to implement shoulder (rotating and bending), elbow, wrist (rotating and bending), and gripper, with <i>no electronics at all</i> is almost indescribable. It was simultaneously somehow slightly disappointing (I was hoping to hijack the imagined electronics to modify the thing to be computer controlled) and also just astonishing that such a thing could be designed. You expected electronics but instead got something from the mind of a modern day Da Vinci.