Production and manufacturing have really gone a long way. While some things can still only be massed produced on a tight schedule in big factories from big companies, new technologies have emerged that allowed anyone with time, patience, and, admittedly, some financial resources to experience a more intimate and more involved approach to making things, including androids.
Unless you have a heavy-duty industrial 3D printer at home, you'll still have to buy the titanium skeletal bases for your robot's body parts. Fortunately, those can be bought off the shelves these days, available in all sorts of sizes. Then it's just a matter of taking a 3D modeling tool, pushing pixels and meshes around to sculpt your perfect human form, and then printing the separate parts for a few days. Assembling your personal android piece by piece not only teaches you how your robot works, it also lets you know the various ways you can use it and its parts that few books or guides will tell you.
And then, of course, there's the matter of programming, something most people put off at the last minute. Of course, some of those prefer truly mindless automatons that just perform their basic stock programs like housekeeping or sex. And then there are those that take a more playful approach in experimenting and learning how to program a bot. Of course, that sometimes leads to broken androids or robot parts, like the pile that's starting to grow in my garage. Good thing they can be recycled and reused for my next robot experiment.
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