Matic co-founder on why building a robot vacuum took 7 years
MarwaEldiwiny · x · 2026-09-04
Robotics researcher Marwa ElDiwiny interviews Mehul, co-founder of Matic Robots, about the company's 7-year journey to ship a robot vacuum and why they deliberately made it not round. The 57-minute Soft Robotics Podcast episode covers the engineering trade-offs of bringing a home robot to market; available on Spotify.
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