Review

Your robot vacuum is stuck under the couch again. Or tangled in cables. Or it somehow missed the entire kitchen while repeatedly cleaning the same corner. You bought the thing to eliminate a chore, but now the chore is babysitting the robot that was supposed to eliminate the chore. The promise was 'set it and forget it.' The reality is 'set it, check the app, rescue it from under furniture, empty the tiny dustbin, and wonder why the floors still aren't clean.' Robot vacuums have been disappointing for so long that disappointment became the expectation. Random bounce patterns that miss spots. Cliff sensors that fail on dark rugs. LIDAR that can't see chair legs. Dustbins that fill after one room. Mopping pads that just spread dirty water around. The industry kept shipping incremental improvements while the fundamental experience remained: robots that need constant human intervention aren't actually autonomous. The problem is that most robot vacuums navigate like drunk Roombas from 2010 with slightly better sensors. They don't understand your home—they just bump around it. They can't distinguish a shoe from a charging cable from a pet bowl. They don't know that the living room rug needs more passes than the hardwood hallway. True autonomy requires actual intelligence, not just sensors and algorithms. Matic approaches this differently with computer vision AI that actually understands what it's seeing. The robot identifies obstacles—cables, pet bowls, toys, socks—and navigates around them instead of getting tangled or stuck. It recognizes floor types and adjusts automatically: stronger suction on carpets, appropriate mopping on hardwood. It learns your home's layout and remembers high-traffic areas that need more attention. The large dustbin means weeks between empties, not days. Clean water tank for mopping, dirty water tank for collection—no spreading grime around. All visual processing happens on-device for privacy; nothing uploads to the cloud. If you've given up on robot vacuums because they created more work than they saved, this is the generation that finally delivers on autonomous cleaning.