Matician Brings a Service Model to Home-Cleaning Robots
In industry, it’s pretty common for robots to be sold as a service. That is, rather than buying the robot and managing it yourself, you instead rent the service that the robot provides. This service includes renting the robot itself, but it also includes stuff like installation, maintenance, repairs, tech support, software updates, and all of that good stuff that you’d otherwise have to worry about separately. This is a good model for companies that want a robot to do useful things for them without having to go through the agony of becoming a little bit of a robotics company themselves. Typically this robotics-as-a-service (RaaS) model is not something that we see with domestic robots—the closest that we get is some kind of additional subscription for specific features. But a startup called Matician is bringing this idea to home floor-cleaning robots by launching Matic, a combination vacuuming and mopping robot Continue reading Matician Brings a Service Model to Home-Cleaning Robots