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.
It’s insane that we can now create movie magic on an iPhone.
Pre-AI, this would’ve taken hours of VFX work and rendering.
Now I take a video on family vacation, upload it to an app, and type a one-line prompt.
@mehul@natolambert@maticrobots way too kind haha, honored to have been part of such a cracked team
learned a ton from you and @navneetdalal, really grateful for the mentorship over the years
excited for @maticrobots! LFG
@KennethCassel@maticrobots@ReddySuryatej@S_Saryazdi a mixture of both;
we’ve also looked into 3d gen ai, but haven’t found those tools to be mature enough (yet) to rely on them heavily, but we expect to in the future
we built an autonomous robot for your home, for <$1,000
live 3D mapping at 1cm^3 resolution, using just regular cameras
entire autonomy stack runs fully on device
here’s how we did it, in 60 seconds:
@maticrobots
visualization w/ @ReddySuryatej@S_Saryazdi