Hi HN! We're Matician (https://matician.com/)<p>5.5 years ago, we started building an autonomous home robot with these goals:<p>* Reliable autonomy — no user interventions, it should just work<p>* Everything on the device — no cloud storage or compute, robot-to-app data through local WiFi<p>* Usefulness — solve a genuine problem that will impact real people<p>To achieve this, we<p>* wrote the robot's software stack in Rust<p>* used only RGB cameras and Mics as input — humans can navigate with only these sensors, so why can’t a robot?<p>* developed SLAM and computer vision algorithms that run on-device, in real time, with centimeter-level precision and semantic understanding<p>* gave our robot a purpose — started with floor cleaning allowing us to develop specialized hardware for vacuuming and mopping w/o chewing up wires or getting stuck.<p>We're a small team of <50 people singularly focused on building something that we’ve all dreamed about: a mobile indoor robot that solves a real problem without jeopardizing our privacy. We're still developing Matic and iterating, but we’re proud of what we’ve built so far.<p>Let us know what you'd be interested to learn! We'll also answer questions here and look forward to your feedback :)
I remember asking a PM interview question many years ago : Design the vacuum cleaner of the future and have heard some crazy answers from candidates. It is amazing to see such a robot being designed and built with even more useful features than what some of the best interview answers indicated. Kudos!
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