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I mean they're researchers, not builders. If this all checks out, they've done their part and this should inspire builders to run with it and commercialize or o
by npunt 3y ago
I mean they're researchers, not builders. If this all checks out, they've done their part and this should inspire builders to run with it and commercialize or open source a printable design.
Specialization is great, glad someone is focused on continually pushing the research and improving the designs, and this one supposedly improves on last year's design. There are others who are better at scaling & commercializing, and those types are probably a lot worse at basic research.
Every inventor and researcher doesn't need to start a startup.
- danw1979 3y agoWouldn’t you consider “validating that it works beyond the chip-sized proof-of-concept” as part of research, especially considering the claims are that it will scale to a modest briefcase-sized unit ? We’re not talking about something that requires mass-manufacturing scale here …