Cleaning robot took six years to reach real homes, and the team is already planning taller robots

Scobleizer · x · 2026-07-23

• The company says it took 2018–2024 to develop its cleaning robot before @mehul launched it in the author’s house.
• The poster highlights a full wall of prototypes, a focus on quiet operation, and a robot that can be used in real homes.
• He says the system is the only robot company to have made a high-res 3D scan of his home, and that for regular users data stays on the robot.
• The robot runs on an NVIDIA Jetson card, and the team is already showing future products, including taller robots.
• A key challenge, he says, is getting consumers comfortable with moving cameras in their homes and manufacturing the devices at scale.

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