This goal would fund development as follows: ~8 full-time engineers @ ~$100k-150k per year { ~4 software engineers, ~4 hardware engineers } (give or take) ~1 lawyer @ 100k per year to handle red tape, licensing setbacks, legal issues etc, we might be able to also crowd source some of that from open source law contributors, but advice would need to be verified by an internal lawyer ~2 quality assurance agents @ ~57k per year (these wouldn't be initially necessary), but would be responsible for thoroughly testing the products as internal employees of the nonprofit ~1 full-time field specific highly referenced & licensed medical expert -Support staff to respond to emails, eventually this could be highly automated by our own tech, and monitored by a single human 1@~65k (for starters) -Medical manufacturers insurance, or something like that? (this is why the cost is so high; I've heard it is extremely expensive) -A large stopgap of liquidity for emergencies where new developers/engineers/experts need to be brought onboard, and/or where issues need to be resolved quickly, possibly requiring help from a paid third party. -Legal fees for testing, licensing, etc.. we will be open source but the finalized products will need to be tested and certified for safety, probably by both our nonprofit and another third party testing organization (peer review) -Recycling old parts, this is critical: the parts need to be recycled constantly and reused as much as possible; otherwise, the benefits from robotics will be offset by enormous amounts of pollution. We wouldn't be doing this ourselves without significantly more funding, but we could provide detailed instructions for others. We could probably get involved in the physical process wherever instruction was needed. I'll have to do the more specific calculations later, but this was a rough estimate. You can contact me for more specifics, inquires, concerns, complaints, or if I missed something. I didn't want to throw this figure out there without having a bit of an explanation where I got it from. Frankly, I think this is on the low side of an estimate, but it'd certainly be enough to get started collaborating with other companies on needed part designs, code, plans, electrical schematics, whatever stopgaps they need for their bionic projects. We would have to be very careful with chosen partners, requiring agreements beforehand not to use the parts in a manner inconsistent with our mission statement, and requiring agreements that if ownership changes, rights are forfeited to use any designs we've developed. However, with reliable partners, we could affect a lot more people. Even if we don't start out with full bionic limb assemblies, with this amount of funding we could likely produce more affordable parts for existing applications or do improvements to other systems where necessary. Here again, we would only partner with companies who put people before profits, and whose main purpose is to provide robotics to those in need. For this price we would only be creating code, blueprints, schematics, and plans/instructions for manufacturers and other organizations to use at their own discretion; I imagine this reduces the cost of production and liability tremendously, since assembly would be conducted by a third party. It's a very lofty goal, and going this route is certainly open for abuse; but if implemented as I've laid out in my mission statement, and with positive goals for humanity at the forefront, the potential for helping people is practically unlimited. This is going to happen whether we do it or not; with anything opensource there is at least transparency, and the ability to audit/adapt/enhance the systems with independent scrutiny.