Dalal: Building robotics demos is 20% of effort, productization is 80%
Navneet Dalal · And How Matic Won By Choosing the Most Boring Market in Robotics with Founders Mehul and Navneet · Jul 14, 2026 · at 16:46
Navneet Dalal, co-founder of Matic, compares software development cycles to robotics engineering challenges.
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“And in robotics, it's almost always the other way around, which is the demo is only about first 20% of the work, And the rest of making sure it is working is the 80% of the work, and it takes quite a long amount of time to get to the perfection to make sure that robot can do the task in an autonomous fashion consistently.”
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