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Knightscope's Best Pivot Strategies - Please Add Your Suggestion

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Undisclosed #1
•Jul 24, 2017

There are numerous Knightscope articles here on IPVM detailing the past problems with Knightscope's go to market strategy - and quite a few recent strings related to the demise (at least temporarily) of the K5 known as Steve in that D.C. fountain.

My question is: If you think (as I do) that Knightscope's business strategy is flawed, and you were hired as CEO of that company, what strategic changes would you make in order to try and become profitable using a different strategy to try and achieve a return on investments?

Think of BRS Labs and their many pivots to become what they are today.  Note that BRS is using their core functionality (behavioral analytics) to try and solve something completely different than what they originally designed their technology to do (analyzing video surveillance).

My suggestion:

Add a holographic add-on module and then sell the K5 to movie theaters.

The K5 could roam the parking lot as a carnival barker type robot that can project movie trailers of films - à la R2D2 - that are coming soon. 

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Brian Karas
•Jul 24, 2017
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Some ideas that fit in with current capabilities:

  • UberEats on a micro-scale - deliver pizza and take-out food to hyper-local residents
  • Dog/toddler walker (ok, that one might require some additional software development/avoidance routines)
  • Auto-forming line/queue barrier - handy for airport security lines, theme-park lines, etc.
  • Paint them with a faux-cement finish and use similar to the above as traffic bollards
  • Hollow out the insides, cut a slot in the top and use them for mail drop boxes, rubbish bins, etc.
  • Attach some padding to the exterior, put them in bars, host "Robot sumo night" (person vs. robot)
  • Use several of them to automatically detect and fill sinkholes (should require minimal reprogramming)
  • Sell inventory to North Korea, tell them they are new high-tech warheads.
  • Golf course bag caddy

 

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Undisclosed #2
•Jul 24, 2017
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Think of BRS Labs and their many pivots to become what they are today.

Barely afloat?

 

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U
Undisclosed #1
•Jul 24, 2017

nice.

though Knightscope would have to severely reduce pricing to compete as a golf course bag caddy to go up against the CaddyTrek

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