This is so cool: Matic put the same vision-first bet Tesla made for self driving into a robot that cleans your home.

Five RGB-IR cameras, no LiDAR, and an NVIDIA Jetson Orin running the inference onboard. It holds a photorealistic 3D map of the place and keeps updating it while it cleans, so it knows a charging cable from a sock from the dog and handles each one differently.

The LiDAR inside a robot vacuum is a single spinning laser. A dark rug swallows the beam, the sensor reports a cliff, and the machine refuses to cross your own floor.

Cameras plus real compute change the order of operations. It works out what a thing is first, then decides how to clean around it.

Seven years went into the perception stack before a single unit shipped, built by a team of under 100 people in California. @maticrobots