Mehul NariyawalaPresident & Co-founder, Matic Robots

Matic’s Learning Your Home Like Family Would

9 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief conversation, Mehul Nariyawala explains the Matic home robot’s key design elements: a movable black “crown” camera that can be raised as the robot’s perception needs grow, mirroring a child’s developing vision. He notes that the core perception stack is already complete, allowing the robot to see the environment from a top‑down perspective and to scale up physically (the metaphorical “puberty” phase). The discussion then shifts to the robot’s role in the household, emphasizing that it should possess its own personality and be treated as a family member rather than a mere appliance or pet, fostering trust and affection. Finally, the speaker envisions future Matic variants equipped with arms to perform additional chores such as cleaning clothes or cooking, while currently enjoying the robot’s vacuuming capabilities akin to a pet Wall‑E.

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And the thing that what it does is that this crown, this black crown, that we built it, but it can move up and down. So just like human child as it grows, the eyes move up and they can always see the world top-down. In the same way, it can already see the top-down, but as the robot scales, we can just make it higher and higher and it just works. So entire foundational stack on perception is done. So what you're telling me is we can look forward to Matic growing a beard, going through puberty, Puberty for sure, because I'm sure robots will make their own drama and make own mistakes and create a mess as it kind of grows. So that's definitely part of it. And then we— there is an element of also that if robot belong— comes to your home, you want something that belongs inside your home. So we don't think of it as a pet, or we don't think of it as a human being. We do think of it as a robot that has its own personality, has its own personality. So you're not worried about it quirk, doing something that you don't want it to do? so can we add that along the way as well so it becomes a sort of part of your family and a lovable robot, not just something that is utility and an appliance.
Of course, the logical thing to do is build more robots to do more tasks around the house. So in the future, maybe there will be a Matic robot with arms that can clean up your clothes, or maybe one that will cook for you. For now though, I'm just happy to have my own pet Wall-E around the house vacuuming up after me and my other pet while I look forward to what Matic comes up with next.