What is Duro's business model? Who wants to buy underwater drones, or pay them to survey areas? My understanding is Liquid Robotics was acquired by Boeing (and their business model transformed from academic research to military defense) because they couldn't make the business model work. Of course Duro is trying to make it cheaper, but I'm still curious who their target customers are.<p>This is not a criticism - I am actually really curious about this space.
Seems like a pretty thin article that doesn’t contextualize the push for manufacturing that has been going on in NYC for the past 5 years, through orgs and networks like NYCEDC or Futureworks, etc.