"In my home, testing a new robot vacuum often means digging it out from under my living room couch or unhooking it from the legs of my lounger. Then there's being woken at 3AM by a cheery "resuming cleaning," getting down on my hands and knees to retrieve a pencil from their brushes or scrub the gunk out of the "self-cleaning" dock. And - my favorite - holding my nose while dumping the contents of a giant dirty water tank into the toilet."
"Then I met Matic. It's a complete rethink of the household robot. From design and navigation to cleaning performance and mobility, it's been built from the ground up to address the problems of today's robot vacuums. And it succeeds. While it's not perfect, Matic is the robot vacuum I would buy if my house weren't overrun with them. At a glance, you can see this is a different kind of bot. It's more WALL-E than Roomba, with a stout white body,"
Matic is a redesigned household robot that addresses common shortcomings of current robot vacuums in design, navigation, cleaning performance, and mobility. The device uses an Nvidia system-on-module and entirely camera-based navigation so it can see a home, avoid hazards, and repeatedly target dirtier areas. The form departs from disc-shaped bots with a taller, flat head, large LCD, and compact body that enables broader visibility and faster movement. Two former Google Nest engineers developed the product, and the company plans humanoid robots. The device improves real-world usability, though some flaws remain.
Read at The Verge
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