I wish there were more companies in the US that can look at problem and solve it to a great deal of technical complexity. It seems like we’re too focused on large and shiny objects.
Robotics is expensive. One needs a team of software developer, electronics engineer and mechanical engineer to develop something. 3 people over 3 years with expensive hardware and couple millions $ for MVP needed. How many google ads for an app could one buy for this sum?
That is what public funded universities and research is for. Many claim projects like CERN is a waste of money but this is where many new ideas and tech comes from as a side effect of trying to solve problems that arise while trying to build a bigger and more powerful accelerator.
I have a problem with public funded universities and research in Germany. I really don’t like how professors own companies where everything comes from PhD students’ work. Basically they transfer state/grant money into personal pockets via paid work hours. Though I don’t know how this works in Switzerland. Another day I saw a long list of CERN technologies that I can license from them and they were not for free.
