Cracking the hardest problem in Robotics

FULL INTERVIEW: Matic Robotics co-founder Mehul Nariyawala reveals how his team cracked the hardest problem in home robotics: mapping chaotic real homes to five-nines accuracy. He talks Silicon Valley origins, an Elon Musk comparison, a live voice-command demo, and the wild story behind Roomba's $199 price tag. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. -- https://x.com/mehul -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS: X | ⁠https://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠ Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠ Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ Interested in sponsoring the show? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠ -- Brought to you by: Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ ElevenLabs - AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Arena - Measuring AI performance in the real world. ⁠https://arena.ai/⁠ Neon (by Databricks) - Get up to $100K in credits for your startup at ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com to learn more Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com AdQuick - Make your brand a billboard. Out-of-home advertising as easy to scale as digital. https://adquick.com -- Timestamps: (00:00) Introduction (01:14) Defining Level Five Home Robots (07:13) Introducing Speech and Gesture Cues (10:12) Future Multimodal Feature Capabilities (11:18) Roadmap Beyond Vacuuminging Chores (16:13) Mapping Homes and Spatial Reasoning (21:46) Challenges of Unsupervised Home Robotics (25:34) Timeline for Consumer Mainstream Adoption -- Note: This podcast is not investment, legal, or tax advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. Hosts and guests may hold positions in the companies and securities discussed; do your own research before acting on anything you hear.