Matic Teases a Humanoid as It Looks Beyond Floor Cleaning

Matic is teasing a future beyond floor cleaning, including a cap-wearing humanoid. In a September 29 video, the home robotics company shows a stylized humanoid working at a table alongside a smaller robot equipped with an arm. Co-founder Mehul Nariyawala says manipulation is the company's next phase, following years spent developing perception and navigation.

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• Matic's new video depicts both a humanoid and a smaller robot with an arm, hinting at ambitions beyond its floor cleaner.
• Nariyawala says the next phase is manipulation, but the post provides no new robot name, specifications, price or launch date.
• The teaser follows his earlier comparison of a Matic-branded humanoid design with Sunday's robot. Sunday's founding designer previously worked at Matic; that connection does not establish copying.

From cleaning floors to handling objects

In his announcement, Nariyawala describes floor cleaning as the foundation for broader household robotics. He argues that reliable perception and navigation should precede manipulation, with each stage providing a useful product in its own right.

He reports more than 16,000 homes and 500 million square feet covered. He also claims 99.999% performance for Matic's visual SLAM, the system that maps surroundings and locates the robot within them. The post does not define the measurement behind that percentage, so it should not be read as a household-task success rate.

The cap-wearing humanoid is the most eye-catching part of the video, but the imagery is a vision of future capabilities rather than evidence of a shipping product or an autonomous manipulation benchmark.

Matic has discussed this direction before. In an April 2025 company Q&A, Nariyawala said adding hands was part of the longer-term plan and that the company had not been founded simply to reinvent the robot vacuum. The new teaser gives that ambition a more visible form.

A familiar-looking hat—and a design connection

There is also a backstory to the friendly humanoid styling. On August 6, Nariyawala posted a side-by-side comparison of Sunday's orange-and-white robot and a gray-and-white Matic-branded humanoid, both with cap-like head designs. His accompanying comment was: “definitely not the first time.”

The comparison came during a thread in which Nariyawala accused Eufy of copying Matic’s name. Responding to a “First time?” joke, he posted the two humanoid designs with the words “definitely not the first time,” implying that his concerns extended to Sunday’s design. The exchange does not establish that copying took place.

A connection between the design teams is documented. Seungho Yang's LinkedIn profile lists him as Sunday's Founding Designer from August 2024, following a designer role at Matic from June 2018 to May 2024. His Matic entry credits work on the robot, its interactions and the app. That employment history provides context, but does not establish the origin or ownership of the humanoid designs.

Sunday has already unveiled its wheeled domestic robot, Memo. Matic's new post leaves its own future hardware much less defined: the next step is manipulation, but how the illustrated robots become products remains to be shown.