[greggsy]

If these are intended to be single-dwelling or single-workplace, is there a need to have any onboard processing greater than a few watts?

You could simply host the raw grunt in a base station somewhere else in the premises, keeping the device lighter and lower power.

[apeytavin]

That would not make it a complete product and would always require a complex setup whenever and wherever you want to use it.

This one is really, really convenient and intuitive. Turn it on anywhere, even outside, it just works. Even when I want to dev on it, it's super convenient.

On some level I truly believe robotics has to become more "complete", we can't always just piece things together, it makes it very hard to have a beautiful product.

I realize this is more of a philosophical answer, but I also think it is the right one to take this field to the next level

[greggsy]

Aren’t you literally selling this with a cloud-based subscription service?

How does that fit into your ‘complete’ ethos?

[apeytavin]

If we could sell it without we would for sure, but this is a current technological limitation. And we make extra easy to connect to it anywhere still, from your phone. Several components of the robots do not need this cloud service, and because the OS is accessible to you, you could even replace it with your own of doing things.

For this one, it's just the only feasible way we found to bring the kind of experience we created to folks.