For sure the idea is to use production equipment to manufacture the test bike. However I don't see how small compromises would invalidate test results, such as welding say 95% of the frame by robot and doing the balance manually, in the interest of getting the test bike out for testing. Parallel task scheduling is critical right now as the money pile is dwindling every day.
Based on the Kickstarter photos, they apparently hand-built three prototypes prior to that campaign.
-HANK RYAN-
Norman, Oklahoma USA