Michael Rand
MSEE GT, Founder/CoFounder of Future Networks, Aretta Communications, SIP.US, SIPTrunk.com, Telvero telecommunications companies. Interests lie in communications, home automation, autonomous control systems, SCUBA diving, and fast cars.
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Learn how home robots and sensors deliver quiet confidence and background reliability. Reduce worry, protect your home from afar, and enjoy true peace of mind.
You are walking barefoot through your living room. The floor feels clean. Not "I vacuumed on Saturday" clean. Clean the way it felt when you moved in.
Thinking about buying your first robot? Discover what really happens when you bring one home — the honest first weeks, real challenges, and why it’s worth it.
Prepare your home for robots before you buy. Learn simple upgrades, better wifi, clear floors, and smart placement that help your robot vacuum and mower succeed
Learn how robot vacuums, mowers, and smart systems are creating affordable household staff for regular families.
We want robots capable of handling different items across various contexts, effective enough to pick something up, move it, and set it down without breaking it.
Cleaning is a fundamental chore, yet it remains one of the most mechanically complex tasks we assign to machines.
Somewhere in your house right now, a robot is staring at the edge of a rug and running the numbers on whether today is the day it finally makes it across.
Explore how you robot communicates to become a reliable member of your household responsive to the home’s overall flow of life.
A robot sees stair and experiences a software-level existential crisis. This is the unfortunate reality of the modern home: it was built for knees, not treads.
Modern home robots depend on WiFi for command and awareness: navigation updates, task confirmation, status streaming to an app. Cut the WiFi and they're lost.
Examines the mechanical and digital process that allows a robot to read the room, and make decisions like if it sees a shoe or a "pet accident".