Adam Bry discusses drone development challenges (Part 4)

Be one part, but you're going to make it two parts because it's just more efficient to do that on a thousand pieces. When you think about designing a product that can scale, what is the process of going from? This is the first iteration and like shippable. But then here's how we're going to basically like systematically like eliminate complexity. So it's just simpler and simpler. This is why I think it's really important to. Context is so important and I force myself to do this. I encourage everybody at the company to really think specifically about what problem we're trying to solve here. So for example, R10 that you're holding, there was a brand new product for us, brand new product line we never had like a specific optimized indoor drone for public safety and for confined space inspection. We also know just based on the dynamics in that market today, we're not going to be building 10,000 of these things a month. That market is just not that place. I think eventually it'll probably get there because we don't have any history here. We're also not going to want to come out of the gate by shipping too many and getting ahead of our skis in terms of the actual maturity and delivering the results that our customers expect. So the set of trade offs that we make when we're developing R10 is very different from what we do when we're developing the successor to X10. Like the successor to X10, our current flagship drone needs to come out of the gate with better reliability than this thing, which is already a hard and mature platform. It needs to come out of the gate with more manufacturability and higher scale than this thing. And so the development process that we run for the successor to X10 is necessarily way more rigorous in manufacturing and reliability than what we do for like a new program that's targeting lower volumes. And this is kind of an elonism, but I think that there's just no substitute. The only way to learn like the really hard lessons in manufacturing and reliability is to have done it with prior products. Like there's just no shortcut on that stuff. So when we're developing, you know, the successor here, we're just deep in the data of what's happening on our manufacturing line. What quality issues have there been in the field? What have we learned from that? How can we shortcut all those things in the design process, process, you know, what's. Where are we spending the most money in our supply chain? In the factory that can be optimized out and I'm very excited about what we'll be able to do here. But it's a very different process from a brand new product that's going to start at lower volumes. When you think of manufacturing and just coming up to speed and knowing what you shopped mice for and what you shouldn't, what have been the biggest things that you didn't expect and just absolutely smacked you in the face, a lot of manufacturing and actually a lot of product development.