{"id":1199527,"date":"2023-11-03T15:43:39","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T19:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1199527"},"modified":"2023-11-03T15:43:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T19:43:39","slug":"matic-is-a-1795-robot-vacuum-for-people-concerned-about-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1199527","title":{"rendered":"Matic is a $1,795 robot vacuum for people concerned about privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<ul class=\"gallery shortcode-gallery gallery-wide\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"gallery-item-content\">\n<div class=\"gallery-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/wet-980x723-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\n            Matic should be able to suck up that spill.                          [credit:<br \/>\n                              <a href=\"https:\/\/maticrobots.com\/press\">Matic<\/a><br \/>\n                            ]\n                      <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Remember when a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2022\/12\/19\/1065306\/roomba-irobot-robot-vacuums-artificial-intelligence-training-data-privacy\/\">Roomba recorded a lady on the toilet<\/a>, and images from the video ended up on Facebook? It&#8217;s the type of horror story that rarely happens, yet once is enough to make you second-guess the smart home products you bring into your personal spaces forever.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why I was so intrigued by Thursday&#8217;s announcement of Matic. It&#8217;s an upcoming robot vacuum and mop that has been in development for six years by ex-Google Nest engineers Mehul Nariyawala and Navneet Dalal. It stands out from other consumer options because of the privacy it offers. The device doesn&#8217;t require a connection to the Internet or cloud and performs all processing on-device.<\/p>\n<h2>Cloud-free cleaning<\/h2>\n<p>All of the mapping Matic does occurs on the device&#8217;s hardware, which Dalal told <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/11\/02\/mantics-robot-vacuum-maps-spaces-without-sending-data-to-the-cloud\/?guccounter=1\">TechCrunch<\/a> has computing power comparable to that of an iPhone 6. Other robot vacuums can work without the cloud, but then their mapping features won&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1980960#p3\">Read 22 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1980960&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1980960\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matic is a ,795 robot vacuum for people concerned about privacy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matic should be able to suck up that spill. [credit: Matic ] Remember when a Roomba recorded a lady on the toilet, and images from the video ended up on Facebook? It&#8217;s the type of horror story that rarely happens, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1199527\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1199528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1199527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1199527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1199528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1199527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1199527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1199527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}