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Re: Wanting to start a business

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Originally Posted by jgw View Post
Robotic bomb removal.
Robotic land mine removal.
Both of those have been done and are continuing to be done. We have several unique ideas we have not seen in the wild

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Originally Posted by EricH
Find a place where there isn't anybody operating, or there are very few competitors, then do something better than all your competitors.

Done

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Originally Posted by EricH
If you're going into military/police-use robots, you're looking at competing against Foster-Miller's Talon, along with iRobot's Packbot. You have to do something that they can't, or do what they do better than they do. If you can't do that, then you won't be successful with the business.

On the other hand, if you develop something that works with both, that neither has come up with...Well, I can see some success there, at least for a while.
We do have an advantage of our in-prototype system that once again has not seen much use. We plan to use that to our advantage.
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