Makes a home floor-cleaning robot that maps and navigates with cameras only. (United States) Who writes about Matic, in their own checked words.
Most of the industry started at the top, with humanoids. We started at the bottom, with a robot whose job is to see and move through a home precisely with 1cm accuracy in any lighting condition. Mehul Nariyawala
At every stage, the robot must earn the next job by doing its current one well enough. Mehul Nariyawala
Every extra nine is a new mountain. The failures get rarer, harder to find, and exponentially harder to fix. Mehul Nariyawala
Each step must be useful today, not justified by something we promise tomorrow. Mehul Nariyawala
But when it comes to robots, we almost always want to delegate, and the bar for delegation is much higher. Mehul Nariyawala
If hardware is 10x harder than software, then robotics is probably 100x harder. Mehul Nariyawala
consumers don’t want robots. They want solutions to their problems. Mehul Nariyawala
In hardware, if you have a great demo, you’ve basically got 20%. The rest productization takes 5x effort. Mehul Nariyawala
Voices who write about it: Amit Goel, Bilal Zuberi, Mehul Nariyawala.
The Physical AI Voices by Herbert Scale Experts.