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by nitsuaeekcm
1420 days ago
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Congrats on the launch! The novel (for robotics) business structure looks interesting. How are you planning on kickstarting the ecosystem? It looks like you need at least one or two competent companies above you on the stack before you can start getting real-world feedback. (1) Do you have in mind who these companies will be? Do they exist yet or do the need to be created? (2) One of the super difficult things about robotics is reconciling the difference between a clean sim and a messy world. How will you get feedback on how your robots are operating and iterate if there’s an independent company sitting between you and the customer? |
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More seriously - there are a surprisingly large number of groups out there building robots and looking for help. Some groups already have not-built-here syndrome, but our hope is that by being a free thing you can just initially build on people will be "Polymath Native."
Your sim question is especially poignant. Our sales line is that reconciling sim:reality is our problem to solve for you. The more real answer is that we're specifically focused on vehicles in environments that are "relatively clean" - i.e. controlled (even if, in fact, they're a landfill). We're also only really selling to technical users - who are hopefully sophisticated to solve >0% of the problems.