On the technical side, Daan Tech made a golden prototype with high resolution laser 3D printers to check the compliance of the design with our specs and help us to assess the interest for the product through a crowdfunding campaign. This also made us capable to estimate the required investment to start the industrialization process with a trustworthy estimated production cost thanks to a detailed Bill of Materials (BoM) and a feasibility study carried out by our main subcontractor. Finally, our compliance with EU standards was checked by an independent laboratory.
On the market side, the crowdfunding campaign which we managed directly from our website, allowed us to gather data about our customers and proven to be very successful since we raised more than 1.1M€ with pre-orders coming from several European countries. Bob proved to be very popular and caught the attention of many politicians, such as Mounir Mahjoubi, the French Secretary of State for Digital Affairs, Agnès Pannier, Secretary of State for Economy, MPs, and Arnaud Montebourg, the former French Ministry of Industry. The media coverage in France has been broad with articles and videos in the most important media (Le Figaro, France 2, France 3, Europe 1, 20 Minutes, Huffpost, etc.) that reached more than 10M French people. The word of mouth made Bob known abroad.