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What funding scheme is the most conducive to creating a robotics industry?
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? …”
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tags: angel investing, crowd-sourcing, Funding, Kickstarter, robotics competitions
