I would agree. CNC-ing POM also tends to work extremely well for prototype plastic parts.

Also, I already built a robot arm, a robot car, and a custom camera in my free time. So I’m having a hard time imagining that a robot vacuum prototype wouldn’t be possible for me to build in a year, let alone with the team size that $1m in annual salaries buys.

The robot vacuum is already there. The Chinese buit a better, cheaper one and the original company went bankrupt.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1lr75lp239o