Amer Haider

Passionate about patient engagment. More info about me at

[Mehul @mehul]

After 9 years. 16K+ family homes. 500M sqft inside real homes covered, we know home robots are being built in wrong order.

So we built Matic the way nature grows a child.

Finally, sharing our vision:
1.⁠ ⁠Why robots get stuck at the demo
2.⁠ ⁠Why labs can't ship robots
3.⁠ ⁠Why we started with eyes, not hands
4.⁠ ⁠The 99.999% rule in robotics
5.⁠ ⁠Where Matic is going next

1. Why most robots get stuck at demos

Robot demos look brilliant in a room arranged around its limitations: familiar lighting, predictable furniture, nothing troublesome on the floor.

A family’s home makes no such accommodations. There are cables, toys, shifting rugs and, occasionally, dog poop. Yes, humanoids will need to avoid that too.

Repeating a task under familiar conditions of uncluttered floors is not the same as handling an unfamiliar home with all its chaos.

2. Why labs can't ship robots

SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) is how a robot maps its surroundings and locates itself within them. Ask most academics and they'll tell you it's a solved problem.

But real homes are the most chaotic spaces that exist.

There are glass doors that look like open doorways, mirrors, stairs, rugs, charging cables, and Legos placed all around.

So ask yourself: if indoor mapping and navigation is "solved," where are the robots? Why aren't airports, hotels and grocery stores full of them?

Calling it “solved” misses the question families actually care about: can I leave this thing alone and trust it?

3. Why we started with eyes, not hands

Nature doesn't give birth to a fully working human. We took our cue from how nature develops humans: capabilities built on one another.
Children learn to see before they learn to grab, and to grab before they learn to plan and handle the unexpected.

Perception comes first. Manipulation follows. More complex responsibilities come after that. At every stage, the robot must earn the next job by doing its current one well enough.

Before asking a robot to pick up a sock, we wanted it to understand where it was, where the sock was, and how to reach it.

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.

Floor cleaning gave that foundation an immediately useful job. It forced us to confront navigation, clutter, privacy and everyday reliability before reaching for more complex chores.

The floor cleaner isn’t a detour from our larger ambition. It is how we’re building toward it.

4. The 99.999% rule in robotics

At 90%, one in ten decisions is wrong, and a robot makes thousands in a single clean. That's the robot that bumps, gets lost, and falls down the stairs.

Every extra nine is a new mountain. The failures get rarer, harder to find, and exponentially harder to fix. They barely even happen until they happen in your home.

Matic's visual SLAM runs at 99.999% in 16K+ homes. We’re the ONLY unsupervised home robot at scale with pure vision-only full autonomy. If you ask us, the gap between 80% and 99.999% is where our 9 years of engineering went.

We close that gap inside real homes. When Matic handles something imperfectly, it saves a short clip and keeps it on the device. It only leaves if the family chooses to share it. If they do, it gets labeled, fed back into the model, and every Matic gets smarter, including theirs.

Families control what leaves their homes. We do the work of making the product better.

Better robots earn trust > trust brings more homes > and more homes teach the robot more.

5. Where Matic is going next

Phase one was perception and it's nearly done. Matic has covered 500 million square feet, 400K miles in thousands of real lived-in homes.
Now phase two is going to be about manipulation. And our idea is to build a robot that doesn't just move through your home, but acts in it to eliminate even more chores.

Each step must be useful today, not justified by something we promise tomorrow. The evolution of Matic is the revolution.

The goal isn’t to put the most impressive humanoid in your living room.

It’s giving your family time and energy back through robots that earn your trust, protect your privacy, and help without becoming another responsibility.

More time for each other. Less work getting in the way.

That’s Matic.
Get yours today at https://t.co/tEo81BKSmA

[Shai Goldman @shaig]

A+ on how to do a launch:

1) they gave a bunch of these robots to VC, founders, operators, influencers, those people commented/boosted the content

2) they paid influencers to boosted content as well

3) had friends boosted the content

4) video was well done

[Mehul @mehul]

Matic Cues live demo!!

[Mehul @mehul]

It took us 9 years, 11 prototypes, and our life savings to learn that every great product has the same design process.

Matic is now decisively the best home robot for families (I'm biased)

A 500-word thread and video on the Universal Design Process behind every great product:

[Amer Haider @amerhhh]

@sabeer God Speed. Bold ideas…

[Amer Haider @amerhhh]

@sabeer

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: DHS agents are now illegally arresting U.S. citizens at airports… and trafficking them across state lines.

A 28-year-old U.S. citizen, Sunny Naqvi, was detained by DHS, for 43 hours, after landing at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago.

She wasn’t charged with a crime, and she wasn’t accused of doing anything illegal…

Agents reportedly detained her over what they called a “curious travel history.”

Even though Sunny was born in Illinois…they still disappeared her.

After being held for about 30 hours inside the airport, agents secretly moved Sunny to an ICE detention facility in Broadview, Illinois.

While this was happening, federal agents repeatedly told her family she was NOT in custody, even though her phone location showed she was inside the facility.

Then it gets worse.

According to witnesses, agents asked for Sunny’s phone number so they could “look for her phone.”

Minutes later, the phone was opened, her messages were read, and the device was shut off, cutting off the family’s ability to track her.

After that, agents transported the U.S. citizen across state lines, to another detention facility in Dodge County, Wisconsin.

And then she was eventually released early Saturday morning… in a random state, alone.

Her phone was dead, and she had no transportation.

So, a U.S. citizen detained by the federal government had to hitchhike to a hotel, just to be able to reunite with her family.

And this is what people need to understand…

When federal agents can detain U.S. citizens without charges… lie to families about their custody, search personal phones, and secretly transport people across state lines…

That puts every single American in danger.

Because they can do it to anyone.

[Amer Haider @amerhhh]

@mehul @maticrobots @maticrobots congratulation. Love this and can’t wait to see the future

[Amer Haider @amerhhh]

@mehul congratulations on changing the way live and this amazing milestone

[Mehul @mehul]

Announcing $60M for @maticrobots.

We didn't ask "What's the most impressive robot we can demo?"

We asked "What's the most useful robot we can ship? What comes after Roomba?"

Customers answered with their wallets: It's Matic.

[Amer Haider @amerhhh]

During Tarwee and listening to the Quran, I dreamed of having an app streaming a real-time, verified English translation to my AirPods so I could understand the meaning of the Quran at that time. Now we have an app for that. Check out https://t.co/THGQUeWx3z

[Amer Haider @amerhhh]

Assalamu Alaikum! Check out, https://t.co/GBgzEkmNHp, that offers real-time translation of the Quran while Arabic is being recited. It’s perfect for Tarween when we are standing in the back and do not understand what is being recited.

[Fawad Khaliq @fawadkhaliq]

We are thrilled to announce that we’re publicly launching the Chkk Kubernetes Availability Platform for enterprises running mission-critical apps on Kubernetes, and we have raised $5.2 million in seed funding led by @sequoia

Read the whole story 👇

https://t.co/AghEX73aJD

[Amer Haider @amerhhh]

Thanks!

[Amer Haider @amerhhh]

@noahsnybagels Please help the environment and expand participation by offer a digital option instead of paper business cards

[Amer Haider @amerhhh]

@theIMEU The Quran states migration is better than oppression. Our beloved Prophet made the strategic choice to migrate and live justly. Below is an article I wrote. We need a Medina Safe Haven for millions of refugees of all beliefs. https://t.co/9PCFb0akRY

[Amer Haider @amerhhh]

This is the truth. Israel will wipe Palestine away. I wish the US told the world to relocate Palestinians. The Quran states migration is better than oppression. We need a Medina Safe Haven for millions of refugees of all beliefs. See https://t.co/9PCFb0akRY

[Gravel Institute @GravelInstitute]

This is what colonization looks like.
https://t.co/0OsUOorf2t

[Adil Haider @AdilHaiderMD]

Excited to be a part of the #BerlinScienceWeek @BerlinSciWeek opening day conversation with our @AKUGlobal experts and a world-renowned panel of doctors, scientists, educators & students! Join us LIVE on Sunday at 8 p.m. on our Facebook page: https://t.co/lZBmwI7jpM

[Nick / nak5132 @the7goonies]

Protests started in Erie.. a girl here was peacefully protesting, after 15 minutes she was maced and kicked.. #PoliceBrutality

[Amer Haider @amerhhh]

@chadloder This is not restraint on part of police

[Amer Haider @amerhhh]

@rbccm please update your phone numbers for SF office on https://t.co/QLBqdoU7e5. thanks