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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For many consumer goods, the question isn’t whether it can be done, but *why* it should be done and whether anybody will decide it’s a good idea.
If you can buy a cheaply made robot vacuum from China for $50 because they already have the factories and the workers, not to mention the mines and other factories to create the raw materials they will need… what benefit is there to setting up all that stuff in your country? Yes it might be beneficial to have high-paying jobs. But if you cannot produce the thing as cheaply as China, very few people will buy your robot vacuum for $75 when they could buy it from China for $50, if you cannot sell products the factory will close, and nobody will benefit.
There are things like computer chips for example that need such precise machines and controlled environments that only a few factories in the world exist. However most other tech COULD be made in other locations. Nobody has bothered however because it doesn’t seem profitable.
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