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The team section lists 3 "development" staff: there's a CTO and two developers. There are 6 people on the team doing design, videography, and marketing, includ
by M4pilot 12y ago
The team section lists 3 "development" staff: there's a CTO and two developers. There are 6 people on the team doing design, videography, and marketing, including the CEO who does list himself as a "telecom and electronics engineer", and so might be involved in design.
A startup building hardware - not to mention advanced image-tracking, autonomous navigation, (hopefully) hazard avoidance, which are hard problems - would in my estimation have more staff doing engineering and manufacturing, rather than design and sales.
Is this a reasonable team arrangement? Am I underestimating the skills of their technical staff, are they outsourcing engineering, or are they using a preexisting plaform? Or am I underestimating the importance of design and sales (which have certainly produced and brought to my attention a gorgeous Kickstarter page)?
- GrantS 12y agoFrom the Kickstarter description, they're leveraging existing open source software: "The onboard software is based on the 3D Robotics open-source code" Also note, they DO NOT include hazard avoidance in the current product: "The reason for this is that there is no avoidance system included in the first version." So I think your questions are legitimate. The underlying question is: do we now live in an era when a team of mostly non-technical people with a couple of smart hackers can put this kind of product together from existing technologies without inventing anything really new? I guess the answer is mostly yes but I wonder if obstacle avoidance is really something that can be left out without serious consequences.