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Matic Defends Privacy of Your Home (Robot Vacuum and Mop)(maticrobots.com)
4 points by mehuln 2y ago|2 comments
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by mehuln 2y ago
The World’s First Robot Vacuum and Mop Reimagined to Defend Privacy of Your Home
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by mehuln 3y ago
Appreciate your feedback.
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by mehuln 3y ago
Totally understand and the use case and really appreciate your feedback. We hope to resolve that in diff way. Just things kind of like truck vs suv vs sedan — we will just need diff form factor. With this one, we really want to eliminate da
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A First Look at Matic, the Reengineered Robot Vacuum(wired.com)
4 points by mehuln 3y ago|1 comments
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by mehuln 3y ago
Hello HN, we have completely reinvented Robot Floor Cleaners with tesla-like cameras only approach with just 5-RGB cameras and all processing on device (no cloud). It's private by design. Please ask any question you may have and send u
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by mehuln 3y ago
Will add lot of it... before it can navigate precisely, it has to know what's in front of it. Lidar is a one-laser, it cannot see what's above or beyond that one pointer, so it's bumps and tangles with wires/tassles etc.
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by mehuln 3y ago
Good to know. Thank you!
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by mehuln 3y ago
Yep, roborocks have done a great job maximizing disc bots. And like any other Xiomi product, they tend to do slightly better job with software/app.
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by mehuln 3y ago
Ours self-cleans so eliminates the hassel of having to replace it after every cleaning cycele.
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by mehuln 3y ago
For sure! So far field trial results have been great, but we've got work to do before we ship. Lots of bugs to squash! Thanks.
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by mehuln 3y ago
Shiiping outside will happen for sure. In terms of size, it's ~1x1 feet and far smaller than some of the docks that come with disc bots these days. The reason for 1 feet height is that we are giving it a same top-down vantage point tha
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by mehuln 3y ago
We will ship to UK as soon as we can - just starting with the US for now. In terms of integration with Home Assistants -- again zero problem in doing this. We will eventually get there, but we want to make sure that we do it in a way where
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by mehuln 3y ago
Also, families care a lot about privacy, and right or wrong, there's an inheritant mistrust of cloud based disc bots and especially those coming from China. We do not beleive anyone of the disc bot companies have wrong intentions or an
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by mehuln 3y ago
Ultimately, we're striving for great user experience which we can do with the bags. Our goal is to make bags as cheap as possible and already it's a $3/bag which is way cheaper than any other robovac bags if we're not mi
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by mehuln 3y ago
Thank you for your kind feedback. The choice of lack of dock is deliberate one -- when we did research with our target audience -- familes and working parents with kids/pets, we realized that they actually do not like the large dock fo
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by mehuln 3y ago
Totally understand. Here's a review from the first look demo that we gave to reporter from Wired. https://www.wired.com/story/matic-robot-vacuum-first-look/ And, yes, we're starting with the US and iOS b
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by mehuln 3y ago
Thank you. Cleaning head is 2 inches tall and extends up to 3 inches below furniture. It cleans all the visible dirt and goes underneath anything that’s taller than ~14”. It’s designed to clean visible dirt thoroughly. Frankly, if primary u
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by mehuln 3y ago
Thank you. Thats correct. Membership is OPTIONAL. Users are welcome to buy bags and rolls a la carte. And Membership is more peace of mind with all-you-can-clean like unlimited bags and rolls, extended warranty, and accidental damage cover
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by mehuln 3y ago
Cost is in computes and lack of economies of scale. Have to take Tesla like high-end to more affordable overtime approach. Disc robots have been around for 20 years. Most are exactly the same from inside.
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by mehuln 3y ago
Single pixel lidars are not enough. Anything higher is way too expensive. Also, Indoor world is designed with our vision first perception. We think robots need to be imbued with similar system. And we believe vision is enough (there’s a rea
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by mehuln 3y ago
Thanks for the detailed feedback and thoughts. 1. Yes, our core users are young families: working parents with young children and pets. Clutter and rate of entropy is just higher. :) 2. The fundamental reason for reengineering and reinventi
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by mehuln 3y ago
Yep. The diff is dynamic and continuous mapping.
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by mehuln 3y ago
Yes. Its at 4x the speed.
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by mehuln 3y ago
Check out maticrobots.com. I am obviously biased as I am one of the co-founders but we truly have built the next-gen 10x better, fully autonomous mopping and vacuuming bot. We have everything you mention above and have HEPA bags. We went ag
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by mehuln 3y ago
Checkout Matic at maticrobots.com. Few things: 1. We have HEPA bags - each bag acts as HEPA filter. 2. We found that more than suction power, the brush roll is more import for effective sweeping and vacuuming. It picks the dirt way better…
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by mehuln 3y ago
The latest NN based approaches still fall short of ORB-SLAM - which is considered the state of the art (in terms implementations). However, it still has only 70% success rate in loop closures. We tend to measure our accuracy with loop closu
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by mehuln 3y ago
Matic keeps both static (historical map) and dynamic constant live mapping. So it constantly observes changes live all the time — just the way we do. And it keeps merging these changes in the slam graph/maps.
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by mehuln 3y ago
Hey All, we (maticrobots.com) have built a local-only fully autonomous robot mop and vacuum. We just use 5 RGB cameras with all on the edge device processings. We send even the map data to app using local WiFi. No cloud at all. Matic builds
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by mehuln 3y ago
https://matician.com/ (The link is text is not working so adding it here.)

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