Matic Factory Tour: How every robot gets built, tested, and shipped

All 15,000+ Matics that have ever been shipped were built in one building. The pod went inside the Matic factory to see how a home robot goes from a box of parts to a custom greeting at your front door.

The pod shows the development of the Matic design, beginning from its origins in 2017, before the company even had an industrial design, to the current version that is sent out today. Matic shipped its first 375 or so paid units in November 2024. It recently moved to a new production line that now allows for 200 robots to be built every shift.

Next, the pod follows a robot down the line. Matic inspects 100% of its sub-assemblies from vendors in Vietnam, Malaysia, and Taiwan before they go anywhere near a robot. Matic then flashes its software in-house, gearing up the robot with its own program.

From there, each Matic is built in 16 steps along an assembly line before it’s run through five tests: airflow, outbound quality control, noise, camera calibration, and a final sweep and mop on a test track.

Finally comes the fan favorite. Every Matic gets programmed with a custom greeting before it ships. Though Matic planned to do that only for its first 400 customers, people loved it so much that the team kept it going, prioritizing the customer experience with birthday and Mother's Day messages included.

00:00 — Welcome to the Matic factory!
01:12 — Every Matic ever shipped was built right here
02:23 — Why Matic inspects 100% of its parts
04:21 — The batch of 5,000 noisy motors
06:12 — Building a Matic in 16 steps
08:01 — The five tests every robot has to pass
08:50 — Inside the noise boxes and the 55 decibel rule
12:12 — Calibrating five cameras with a robot arm
13:50 — Why every Matic ships with a custom greeting

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