I stumbled on this product:
robai.com/cyton-alpha-7d.html
He thinks he can get $2500 bucks for a hobby arm using HS-475 servos and Lynxmotion brackets, gripper and SSC-32?
What is he on?
Well it does have a cool name… 
Is that even legal? 
It doesn’t sound like he’s nuts, so much as that he’s attempting to market towards educational/research buyers, who have deep pockets, and are not likely to consider the hobby industry, where most of the components come from. He’s also probably placing a painfully high price tag on the eye-candy software shown running on the laptop in the video clip.
Hardware Interface: USB? SSC-32? Hope at least he is shipping it with an usb to serial adapter…
You don’t know what the entire package the guy is selling is either, other than what he has posted on his website. I agree with Seamus in the guess about his target market being the education/research area. If he is selling a canned arm, fully built, tested, with custom software, documentation, a warranty, and technical support… plus he needs to make a living from the sales… maybe $2500 isn’t a complete rip. I certainly have seen people buy less complicated things for more money than that. 
I have to agree with Eddie.
It’s my opinion though, that it may be suitable for education purposes, but for R&D, I think it’s not going to deleiver. An arm like this is not going to hold up if it is going to do redundant tasks several hours a day 5 days a week.
I can see your points but if you are selling something for R&D, it will have to be able to perform. I would be pretty disappointed if I bought this thinking I could use it for extended periods or to lift anything with any kind of accuracy.
Unless the HS-475 hare now digital high torque servos and no one told me.
It looks to me as though it’s a software guy that built it and is trying to sell it as a professional product.
I thought I saw somewhere on the ssc-32 documentation that it is not for commercial use. Although technically he’s not infringing on any patents because he does not claim the components to be his under his company name and he is using them for their intended purpose.
I just thought it was funny.
The code can’t be used for commercial applications with their own hardware, but the controller certainly can.