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Mehul
@mehul
Co-founder @MaticRobots, reimagining home robots with Vision-only Spatial AI. Prev: Co-founded @Flutterapp acquired by Google, Ex-PM Lead Nest Cams, Google
Whoa!! @maticrobots got that the first 10/10 review in 17 years! ๐คฏ๐คฏ๐คฏ Now we must live up to it!! Bar just got higher...
- My hero, my father, passed away exactly a month ago. Everything I am is because of him. He made the ultimate contrarian bet when he decided to send me to the USA at age 15. Every single person in our family told him he was stupid and making a big mistake. It took me a very long
- If HW is 10x harder than software, then shipping robots is 10x harder, than HW. I am happy so many robotics companies are trying. Keep at it โ happy to be shipping after 7 years of grind.
all these dumbass robotics companies have ever shipped is a landing page - We in Silicon Valley are well versed in SW, so happy to shed light on realities of HW. All @maticrobots are assembled and shipped from Mountain View, California, but components come from around the world: cameras from France, motors from Japan, and so on. Weโd love to sourceMatic is made in America but has to increase prices 14% due to Trumpโs tariffs
- Can we call it a clean sweep! โ @WIRED: 10/10 โ @verge: 9/10 (6-months of testing) ๐@ZDNET: Editorโs Choice award ๐@Gizmodo Editorโs Choice award โ @wirecutter: positive (thatโs always a win? ๐
- Rust had been godsend for us! Another super power for small teams! maticrobots.com/blog/why-rust-โฆ
Replying to @fsfarimaniOur whole stack at @maticrobots is in rust. Millions of lines of code. Median age of SW team is 25 yo. We've never faced a single seg fault, memory leak, data races over 100s of robots running 24x7 for last one year. The rust type system is really good! - ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅโThen I met Matic. Itโs a complete rethink of the household robot. From design and navigation to cleaning performance and mobility, itโs been built from the ground up to address the problems of todayโs robot vacuums. And it succeeds.โ ๐ซก๐๐ฅฐ
- We've trained a voxel occupancy neural network to build live 3D maps using regular cameras. It runs at 3ms on nvidia A40 & 30ms on jetson nano orin Training takes 5 days on 0.7M images from our @UnrealEngine simulation @maticrobots @mehul @navneetdalal vis in @rerundotio ๐ฅ
00:00 - Since so many of you asked, here's the timeline of our adventure It all started in 2018 - Proof-of-Concept โ Jupiter (code name for the prototype) The indoor world doesnโt have Google Maps or GPS. Hence, to build fully autonomous indoor robots: *** We have to give robots theWhat an adventure. HW takes time... keep building!!
- ๐ฅ๐โThe software that powers Matic is just as novel. โฆ Using artificial intelligence, Matic adapts to the layout of your home as it changes.โ - NYT Wirecutter (109 kB)
- .@Figure_robot: Here's the 3D Map I Built .@maticrobots: hold my beer ๐ (cameras at humanoid-eye-level using our tiny floor cleaning robot)
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Robots have been busy walking around the Figure office ๐ค This is a 3D map generated by the humanoid on-board cameras
