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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How hard is it for *you* to make a robot vacuum cleaner from scratch?
Not buying in parts and cobbling it together, not downloading a github navigation script and tweaking it. You have to make the shell, the software, the instructions, the app, the branding and the support?
You have a blank sheet of paper. How many years will it take you to create one? How much will it cost to develop? How much will you have to sell them for to break even?
How much will it cost you? How much money do you need to save up from your other jobs to set aside enough to start this company from nothing?
You can’t hire employees from another robot vacuum competition, you can’t employ interns from local tech universities with a graduate scheme, you can’t get government funding or favourable tax breaks.
When you’re finally finished in ten years time, you’ll have spent $3,000,000 US dollars on development and each of your vacuums will cost $1200.
You’re competing against Chinese brands selling cheap ones for $39 and Roomba selling top-end featured ones that are far better than yours for $799. Nobody will buy one because it’s new, unknown, expensive, late and there are better options to buy.
That’s why it’s hard for developing nations.
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