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At Matic, we’re on a mission to recapture that lost time, and we’re doing it by revolutionizing home robotics.\nOur first product, also called Matic, is a Wall-E-esque floor cleaning robot. We've built what amounts to \"full self-driving in the home” with real-time 3D mapping, adaptive path-tracking, and a precise semantic understanding of the home. Our breakthroughs in spatial AI allow Matic to work reliably in real homes, using only RGB cameras and neural networks running on-device.\nPrivacy First\nWhat happens in the home, stays in the home. Our robots are private by design, with all data processing performed by the robot itself, not in the cloud.\nOur Approach\nBefore the iPhone, consumers adopted several distinct devices; cell phones, PDAs, and portable music players each served a particular need. 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