3D Robotics is one of the five manufacturing companies in CNBC's Disrupter50 list; along with Makerbot, Quirky, Shapeways, and Rethink Robotics.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100727789
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3D Robotics is one of the five manufacturing companies in CNBC's Disrupter50 list; along with Makerbot, Quirky, Shapeways, and Rethink Robotics.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100727789
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Bravo to 3DR! You folks are moving up in the Drone Industry. All your competitors better watch out cause 3DR is leading the charge!
Great comments by all...
I believe it takes all type of organizations...open source is a relatively recent disruptor phenomena and a great one! Although think of where we would be, or not be, if it weren't for Apple defining the smart phone with it's gyros and accelerometers which now enable our flight world. How about university (partially publicly funded) research which provides much basic research? And think about the great public companies which drive great innovations in technology...Boeing driving wing design and digital manufacturing (CAD/CAM), Intel with Mr. Moore, GE who is now placing additive manufacturing (3D printed fuel nozzles) in their jet engine production lines. Plus, people from all these companies spin off hundreds of new small businesses which drive even more innovation.
Open source is a tremendous disruptor and I believe it will continue to push new technologies and prepare young minds to ever greater discoveries, as well as bring like minded people together from all cultures for common causes. It is a big part of a technological/cultural change that will be looked at as equally important as the printing press and the discovery of electricity. And we're right in the thick of it...pretty fun!
The Open Source Open Hardware community is pretty much the opposite of any standard business model.
For that matter, traditional business can't actually envisage it being successful.
By and large they base their success on sequestering knowledge and invention so that only they can exploit it.
On the other hand, that's a lot of the reason why we are here isn't it.
3DR picked the high road, thank you.
3DR rules because the community it comes from never stops moving forward. Our pick-and-place machines and reflow ovens are nice, but they're available to any company out there. We have some brilliant people on the payroll, but they could make more money elsewhere. They work at 3DR because it's on the front lines of the future, the same can be said for everyone here at DIY.
It's not just 3DR that thrives because of this community, look at all the other companies and individuals who are creating sweet-ass things in the DIY Drones crucible.
Geeks doing cool stuff on their evenings and weekends, that's the real disruptor to the standard model.