I work in robotics. The problem for pretty much everything is one of scale and commercialization. Every one of these issues has been addressed, but almost none

I work in robotics. The problem for pretty much everything is one of scale and commercialization. Every one of these issues has been addressed, but almost none have a good and bundled solution. It feels like computers in the 70s. All the pieces are there but there aren't mass produced PCs yet somewhat because there aren't the suppliers to make things easier. This is changing fast. For example, SLAM has many things that work, but they require fine tuning, and most contain undocumented features that require reading the source to find. Slamcore is a company working on this, I hope there are more. Teleportation was "possible but hard", but Freedom Robotics has a good solution now that mostly "just works" Robotic bases work well, but they will ship them to you without things plugged in so you have to find the issue and fix it yourself. AWS Deepracer is clearly a prototype for a solid wheeled base. The documentation and build quality is an order of magnitude higher than anything else in the space. My guess is they launch it as a useful base in the next year or so. Depth estimation is pretty good with Intel Realsense now, and the new OpenCV OAK is another attempt here. I think this is more solved and packaged than anything else. ROS2 was only properly released in June 2020, and it is a huge step up from ROS1 for commercial applications. It probably needs another 1-2 years for the community to finalize supporting it. I think for founders finding known robotic solutions and making them into robust commercial products is a great space to work in. The next few years are very interesting in this space, as even 1 year ago everything was much harder and it's rapidly getting easier.