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Today, hardware startups need less
time and capital to build products,
and valuable applications abound
Old vs New Hardware
Startups
Consumer Devices
Finding a ‘10x advantage’
and making a consumer device
a ‘must-have’ remains challenging
Source: Black Mirror
To rid our world of inefficiencies and create new business models. B2B products are often ‘must-haves’
Enterprise And
Industry IoTSource: RockMass Technologies
Mining walls analysis
The Health Value Chain
Opening Eyes On Startup
Hospitals / insurers /pharma companies
seeing the value in consumer health hardware, including
“digital therapies”Photo: Flow Neuroscience (depression treatment)
With the right economics, prototyping tools that double as production tools could speed up development, boost local manufacturing and open up the ‘long tail’ of hardware.
Tools For Prototyping
& Production
Source: WAZER desktop water jet
Humanoid Robots
Apologies to SciFi fans: a humanoid robot
shape is rarely suitable and cost effective.
ATMs and washing machines had no need
for arms, legs or a face.
The Atlas robot can perform backflips (Source: Boston Dynamics)
Robots that we barely notice, doing Dirty, Dull
and Dangerous jobs.
Some might grow as franchises across cities.
RaaS (Robot-as- a-Service)
Source: Avidbots (commercial cleaning robots)
Long-Lasting Batteries
Or a breakthrough in energy harvesting.
Power remains a bottleneck for mobile
devices and IoT.
This would help transform huge sectors such as transport and health care.
Easier & Faster
RegulationsPhoto: Autonomous Bus In Shenzhen
Chinese Innovation
Stop labeling it ‘copycat’,
when so much is happening now, even if not always
targeting Western users.
Photo: Mobike dock-less bike for rental
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