{"id":175387,"date":"2023-11-04T05:25:45","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T10:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/two-former-google-engineers-have-a-product-and-a-plan-to-fix-robot-vacuums"},"modified":"2023-11-04T05:25:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T10:25:45","slug":"two-former-google-engineers-have-a-product-and-a-plan-to-fix-robot-vacuums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/two-former-google-engineers-have-a-product-and-a-plan-to-fix-robot-vacuums","title":{"rendered":"Two former Google engineers have a product and a plan to fix robot vacuums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/two-former-google-engineers-have-a-product-and-a-plan-to-fix-robot-vacuums2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Matic is a fully autonomous robot vacuum that its founders claim will clean your floors without getting stuck on cables or toys and without sending a map of your home to the cloud. And it\u2019ll only cost you $1,800.<\/p>\n<p>The Matic is a new robot vacuum with a different approach to cleaning your floors. Built by two former Google Nest engineers, it\u2019s designed to move around your home in the same way most humans would, processing things visually instead of spatially. It uses five RGB cameras to navigate, rather than the sensors, bumpers, and lidar tech found on most of today\u2019s robot vacs. In theory, this makes it less prone to common robot vacuum pitfalls \u2014such as high-pile rugs, cables, and tight spaces \u2014 because it can actually see where it\u2019s going in real time rather than relying on a preprogrammed map. It also operates locally \u2014 with no cloud component at all. Mapping is done on the device, and it doesn\u2019t require an internet connection to run, so your data should never leave your home. $1,800 robot vacuum thinks it can beat the best of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Matic is a fully autonomous robot vacuum that its founders claim will clean your floors without getting stuck on cables or toys and without sending a map of your home to the cloud. And it\u2019ll only cost you $1,800. The Matic is a new robot vacuum with a different approach to cleaning your floors. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,1965,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-mapping","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}