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The World’s First Robot Vacuum and Mop Reimagined to Defend Privacy of Your Home

Appreciate your feedback.

Totally understand and the use case and really appreciate your feedback. We hope to resolve that in diff way. Just things kind of like truck vs suv vs sedan — we will just need diff form factor.

With this one, we really want to eliminate day to day use.

Hello HN, we have completely reinvented Robot Floor Cleaners with tesla-like cameras only approach with just 5-RGB cameras and all processing on device (no cloud). It's private by design. Please ask any question you may have and send us your feedback. Thanks!

Will add lot of it... before it can navigate precisely, it has to know what's in front of it. Lidar is a one-laser, it cannot see what's above or beyond that one pointer, so it's bumps and tangles with wires/tassles etc. all the time.

Imagine if you could only see just one-inch ehigh of what's in front of you -- not below or above -- then you'd un into tables or chairs all the time. Single pixel lidars are sort of like that.

Good to know. Thank you!

Yep, roborocks have done a great job maximizing disc bots. And like any other Xiomi product, they tend to do slightly better job with software/app.

Ours self-cleans so eliminates the hassel of having to replace it after every cleaning cycele.

For sure! So far field trial results have been great, but we've got work to do before we ship. Lots of bugs to squash! Thanks.

Shiiping outside will happen for sure.

In terms of size, it's ~1x1 feet and far smaller than some of the docks that come with disc bots these days.

The reason for 1 feet height is that we are giving it a same top-down vantage point that we humans have. Flat designs will give ant-like vantage point which makes seeing what's in front it rather hard.

Human like vantage point also means it builds maps that both the robot and humans can easily understand and recognize all the objects. Thanks!

We will ship to UK as soon as we can - just starting with the US for now. In terms of integration with Home Assistants -- again zero problem in doing this. We will eventually get there, but we want to make sure that we do it in a way where privacy is still maintained. We do not want to enable it if it means sharing private data of any kind with home assitant companies.

Also, families care a lot about privacy, and right or wrong, there's an inheritant mistrust of cloud based disc bots and especially those coming from China. We do not beleive anyone of the disc bot companies have wrong intentions or anything, but I know that I wasn't comfortable with our home data going to cloud.

Hence, we started with the premise that we shouldn't have to compromise our privacy to keep our floors clean. Thanks!

Ultimately, we're striving for great user experience which we can do with the bags. Our goal is to make bags as cheap as possible and already it's a $3/bag which is way cheaper than any other robovac bags if we're not mistaken.

That's also why we have all-you-can-clean membership plan -- it's optional and users can purchase bags a al carte, but with it's unlimited bags. mop rolls, extended warranty, and accidental coverage it's really a great peace of mind for our users.

Our goal is to provide great customer experience first and formost with a higest quality product. Thanks!