Why tech development is hard?

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I’m a mechatronics engineering graduate with very little work experience. I’m also about to complete my masters. I’m telling these because I’m actually not that unfamiliar with technology but there are some things that I need to be explained like I’m 5.

Why is it that hard for a non-developed country to produce technology? How hard could it be to do a robotic vacuum cleaner? It’s not like starting from scratch. There’s years of know-how of humankind and it shouldn’t be that hard to reach that information.

We design and implement some simple robots as engineering students. One of them was a robot gripper. Nothing fancy but it was able to grip sensitive objects without harming them.

I don’t understand how a country with unlimited resources, compared to us some students, can’t produce at least this level of technology? I am pretty sure that they can but there must be something that’s preventing them from doing.

Edit: Forgot to add, I’m not living in a developed country.

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It boils down to money and investment. A tech-related company can be set up anywhere but you need the money to keep it running while you do research and development for that tech product. It takes money to fund the required talents and the prototyping. Then the next huge investment comes in the manufacturing process – whether you’re building out your own factory and tooling, or contracting it out to original equipment manufacturers in China, it will cost a mind bogglingly large amount of money.

And even if you come out the other side with a viable product, ready to be sold, who’s to say that people would buy it? Would you buy a robotic vacuum cleaner that came out of that 3rd world country or would you rather buy a Roomba?

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