RE:RE:RE:RE:Home based Orbital Gardens, pretty cool lookingHey Kurious1,
Here's a quick possibility: The AI used to operate the entire grow system.
Think of it like this: Consumer drones are new, maybe someone has a less than 20 year old patent on 'drone technology'. If you take that original drone that needed a skilled pilot-operator to fly, hover, follow, land, and keep in proximity of the pilot, that's one type of product. If you now make all those functions automated so any *unskilled* pilot operator can do all the same things, do you have the same product as the one that was patented? I don't think anyone would argue you did.
What constitutes the difference? The thousands, or tens of thousands, of lines of code that take all of those processes and steps required to make a drone fly successfully, along with the new sensors now required to feedback to the drone software it's position, orientation, speed, etc., and make them into a new product that flies itself with minimal operator input. Just because the basis of the product is a drone platform, doesn't mean you have the same product.
SImilarly, if you strip out all the AI from RQB's O.G. 2.0 tech, now you have a grow room that needs to be monitored continuously by humans, needs multiple incursions into, cannot make adjustments independantly, needs constant manual sampling and testing of water levels, nutrient levels, temperature levels, etc., and then needs a human to adjust back into an acceptable zone when limits are reached or exceeded.
So tell me what's the more unique product:
- A bunch of plants spinning around a light in drums that you can stack on each other, -or-
- A bunch of plants growing in an orbiting garden that can self-regulate lighting, temperature, nutrient levels, airflow and orbit rate based on the unique needs of each orbiting garden across 336 pods in an entire facility
I think in your heart you know that what RQB has, is unique of what Roto-Gro claims to be theirs.