Problem Statement

Unlocking the Potential of Robotics and IoT in a Fragmented Ecosystem

Robotics and IoT technologies have the potential to change industries dramatically. They can improve farming efficiency by 20% and cut manufacturing costs by 15%. However, many obstacles prevent widespread use and equal access. By 2025, the global robotics market could reach $53.74 billion, with service robots making up $40.58 billion. Yet, the industry is hard to reach, inefficient, and insecure, excluding individual designers, small businesses, hobbyists, DIY fans, and new markets from fully benefiting.

Key challenges include:

• High Barriers to Entry in Design and Customization, Especially for Hobbyists and DIY Enthusiasts: Traditional robotics development demands specialized CAD software, expensive hardware prototyping, and deep engineering expertise, often costing tens of thousands of dollars per project.Hobbyists and DIY communities are often overlooked, even though they are eager to work on projects like home automation and educational robots. This has led to a DIY market growing at just 15% annually until 2028, which is slower than the industry's overall growth rate of more than 20%.

• Unfair Compensation and Intellectual Property Issues: Robotic module and IoT creators rarely earn ongoing royalties, as centralized platforms take more than 50% in fees. This stifles innovation, with 80% of open-source contributors saying they aren't properly rewarded.

• Security Vulnerabilities and Data Silos in Centralized Systems: IoT devices face issues like data silos and security risks, with 70% of breaches starting at endpoints, including IoT. Centralized control worsens this with single points of failure, where a hack can impact entire networks. IBM reports these breaches cost $4.88 million on average in 2024. IoT growth enhances threats due to unpatched vulnerabilities and inadequate oversight.

Blockchain and decentralization offer a direct solution here, enabling immutable, distributed ledgers for secure data sharing, tamper-proof audit trails, and peer-to-peer networks that eliminate central vulnerabilities, ensuring resilient operations without relying on trusted intermediaries.

• Scalability and Manufacturing Inefficiencies: Deploying custom robots is expensive and slow, often taking over 6 months due to disconnected supply chains. This delay hinders their use in high-demand areas like healthcare and logistics, where automation could help address labor shortages affecting 85 million jobs by 2025..

These interconnected problems create a vicious cycle: Limited accessibility stifles creativity (especially for hobbyists experimenting or makerspaces), unfair models deter investment, security flaws erode trust, and inefficient processes hinder scale.

Robora addresses this head-on by democratizing modular robotics through an intuitive 3D builder tailored for DIY users, blockchain-enabled tokenized royalties for fair compensation, decentralized compute for secure and resilient operations, and streamlined manufacturing partnerships, empowering a new wave of creators to build, deploy, and monetize advanced solutions seamlessly.