Welcome to Robotics by Invitation! This month we’ve asked our experts to weigh in on the best way to create tomorrow’s robotics industry. Here’s what they have to say:
Raffaello D’Andrea on “What funding scheme is the most conducive to creating a robotics industry?”
The best way to commercialize robotics research is to make better connections between academics and entrepreneurs. Academics venturing out into the business world tend to …
Henrik Christensen on “What funding scheme is the most conducive to creating a robotics industry?”
The public should in most cases not subsidize companies. Tax payers should not be venture capitalists. The new wave of Lean Startup going around the world is a great model to ensure that …
Mark Tilden on “What funding scheme is the most conducive to creating a robotics industry?”
Funding schemes aren’t viable until we can make more innovative roboticists, and over the years I’ve tried several methods of engendering the Divine Frankenstein Complex in others …
Frank Tobe on “What funding scheme is the most conducive to creating a robotics industry?”
Funding new robotic projects in America is mostly done two different ways:
(1) strategic funding from NASA, DARPA, DoD, NSF and other government organizations to do the pure science involved in solving stumbling blocks in robotics, and …
Nicola Tomatis on “What funding scheme is the most conducive to creating a robotics industry?”
I would like to start from the other side: “Why is robotics great in creating new technologies and poor in creating new businesses? …”
We hope you will join the discussion. Feel free to post your comment.