Matic Robots' @mehul on why Elon Musk is the rare exception who actually delivers on his ambitious promises: "I moved to the Valley in 2005, and I feel like only person who has consistently gotten away with overpromising and overdelivering is Elon. Even Steve Jobs didn't really come out and say what he was going to deliver until the last day." "We are trained from Tony Fadell, Steve Jobs school of thought, that it's better to underpromise, understand the product, know it, and then when you're ready to ship, you're ready to ship. It's not a promise that will happen three years from now, 10 years from now." "Partly because if you take a step back, we've gone from world that was very default trust to very default skeptical. Everyone is skeptical about your promises. It wears out very fast if you don't deliver." @maticrobots

Matic Robot co-founder @mehul on why Roomba was priced at $199: it's the price where you don't need to ask your partner for permission "The first robot vacuum ever built wasn't Roomba. It was Electrolux Trilobite. It had LIDAR in it. It was $1,500 and failed. Then Roomba came out priced at $199." "We asked the iRobot founders, why did they price it at $199? It's the price at which you don't have to ask permission of your partner to make a purchase. Below $200. It's a gadget-friendly price point." "We extrapolated. Is there a ubiquitous consumer electronics device priced higher than $2,000? Not really. Beyond that, we spend money on cars, or things that are prosumer for our work. Cars, after 100 years of utility, still remain a considered purchase." "If you're building something costing $20,000, $30,000, $40,000, what's the kind of trust we have to build? What infrastructure do we need? Cars have amazing financial infrastructure to enable these purchases. So if you're going to have humanoids costing that much, we will need the same thing." @maticrobots

Watching @maticrobots clean has FSD v14 vibes: it has a very human-like quality to its work, gently moving around transient obstacles and going back to clean where it missed. Truly exceptional work by the Matic team.

My @maticrobots robot vacuum and my @ImpulseLabs stove are by far the best home appliances I own. Prediction: startups are absolutely going to mog the incumbent in home appliances. Clothes washers are ripe for disruption.

FULL INTERVIEW: @maticrobots co-founder @mehul reveals how his team cracked the hardest problem in home robotics: mapping chaotic real homes to five-nines accuracy. He talks Silicon Valley origins, Elon Musk's approach to overpromising versus overdelivering, a live voice-command demo, and the wild story behind Roomba's $199 price tag. 1:38 Why 100+ self-driving startups existed but none building robots for homes 3:43 Achieving "five nines" of mapping accuracy 8:09 Live demo: Matic responds to "Hey, Matic, clean this" and points/gesture commands 10:57 The goal was always Rosie the Robot 16:47 The Las Vegas home with a fountain and fish tank that nearly broke the robot's mapping 18:05 The key difference between overpromising and overdelivering 22:09 The "march of nines" why the last 0.1% of robotics reliability takes years 25:47 Electrolux Trilobite's $1,500 failure vs. Roomba's $199 "permission from your partner" price point

I was interacting with my @maticrobots today and had to clean the front brush for the first time. The build quality and design is very thoughtful, high quality materials. Even the lid is the right weight and feel. Very easy to clean. Still happy ! 11/10