Robotics founders drowning in outbound from dev tools: 10x more shovel-sellers
DanGrover · x · 2026-09-14
Kenneth Cassel reports that robotics founders are inundated with outbound pitches from dozens of robotics dev tools, data collection, and infrastructure startups — at least 10x more people are building software tools for robots than actual robotics companies. Dan Grover confirms he's noticed the same. A telling snapshot of how crowded the "selling shovels" layer of robotics has become relative to the hardware itself.
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