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Interesting, but:
See, the thing with molds and specialised tools is that they get really, really cheap at scale. It you're making something like a drone, using a mass-produced drone-shaped battery and fastening chips and motors on seems like it would be better than painstakingly printing a battery into whatever cheap plastic body.
Those things also all have purposes. I have to wonder if there's some kind of tradeoff not being advertised here.