[stefan8r]

Ilia gave you the more real (and specific answer) but I just want to call out that I love the Underpants Gnome reference. I used to cite it a lot and was frustrated by how many times I had to explain it.

Sim =/= sim =/= sim. By which I mean - when some people say "build autonomy in sim" they mean lots of different things. Sometimes they mean solve all ML and data collection problems in a simulated world. We don't mean that.

When we say build and test in sim, we really mean that for just the earliest phases. Essentially - if you wanted to build Bear Flag Robotics 2.0 you could take our example app (lightweight Python app to tell a tractor to till a field), meaningfully improve it, show it to farmers to get LOIs, raise money, buy + outfit a tractor, and then put our autonomy on that tractor.

In that end state the behaviors you built out in Sim would still mostly work on the real tractor (same API commands both) and you could end up modifying those behaviors the way you would need to make them work in the real world. We would also be working with you closely to make sure our product is working well, solving new problems, and probably doing things that don't scale to help you be successful.