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Mehul Nariyawala on Why Home Robots Must Be Vision-First and “Delegate, Not Collaborate”

Home robotics has been promised for decades, but most products still struggle to meet everyday expectations. In this episode of Automated, Brian Heater speaks with Mehul Nariyawala of Matic Robots about why the robot vacuum category became the beachhead for home robots, and what it actually takes to ship a product people trust.

Mehul breaks down the shift from “default trust” to “default skepticism” in consumer hardware, and why robotics lives in the “march of nines,” where demos look impressive at 90%, but real products require relentless work to reach the reliability customers demand. He…

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