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:
Introducing Cues: Voice & Gesture control for Matic
We raised $115M and spent 9 years to make the world’s first intuitive home robot
Say you spilled coffee: Point to the spill and say, "Hey Matic, clean this" and it will hear, see, locate in 3D, and go clean on its own.
Matic comes with a lot of features:
1. Say "Hey Matic" - it locates your voice, turns, and looks at you
2. Say "Hey Matic, follow me" and start walking. Matic will follow behind
3. Say "Hey Matic, go clean the living room". Since it knows your house map, it navigates and just does it
It's so easy, a 5 year old and an 80 year old can use it and it understands 75 different languages.
Matic has 8x the airflow, specialised cleaning algorithms for rugs, corners, toekicks, mopping, etc and cleans better than any other robot vacuum.
Also keeps improving with software updates.
13,000 families use and love Matic.
WIRED magazine gave it a 10/10 (the only hardware to receive this rating in a decade)
Buy yours at https://t.co/nLfY5pchxB and if you don't love it after 6 months, we'll give you a full refund.
To celebrate our launch, we're cleaning 300 homes with Matic in San Francisco and New York City.
Comment "Matic" below, we'll send you the link to sign up and come to your doorstep to clean your home with Matic.
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.
We set out to build the robot that comes after Roomba. Today we raised $60M to scale it.
None of this happens without our customers: you took a chance on us, told your friends, and made robot vacuums cool again.
Thank you ❤️
This round is for you. Now we scale.
@maticrobots "The toddler worships it. The cat is indifferent."
We'll win over the cat soon enough... might need to introduce a laser pointer attachment
“Matic: Wirecutter, Wired, Gizmodo, The Verge, and ZDNet have all reviewed it and said it’s the best smart vacuum ever made. I agree. We use ours constantly. ”
Huge thank you to @lennysan for the shoutout!
Get your Matic before the holidays ✨🎄🎁
A disservice if I did not say that the Matic robot vacuum is spectacular.
The only 10/10 rating I have ever given in over a decade of reviewing products. Solving many pain points I never knew I had.
Adrienne So, Senior Commerce Editor for WIRED
Congratulations to @Adam_mrozowski (John Khuri Memorial Scholarship), @grayson_moyer (Skip Pristow Award & Fran Urban Award), @JNashh13 (LHAC All-Conference & Skip Pristow Award) #BetterTogether