So You Want To Do Robots, Part 3: How to Escape Pilot Purgatory

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I hope you don’t fail, but building a robotics company is very hard. So it's useful to study the patterns of what doesn’t work. We’re going to dig into the most common death pattern for robotics startups: starving in pilot purgatory. If you’ve been at a robot startup, this story is likely familiar. You talked to potential customers...

I’ve been working on general purpose robots with Everyday Robots for 8 years, and was the engineering lead of the product/applications group until my whole team was impacted1 by the recent Alphabet layoffs. This series is an attempt to share almost a decade of lessons learned so you can get a head start making robots that live and work among us. Part 2 is here. I mean, I hope you don’t fail, but building a robotics company is very hard.2 And it's useful to study the patterns of what doesn’t work. In this part, we’re going to dig into the most common death pattern for robotics startups:…

So You Want To Do Robots, Part 3: How to Escape Pilot Purgatory

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