I have two smart home picks this year. I have one hardware and one software. My hardware pick is the Matic robot vacuum.I first met this little guy in 2024 and finally got to test it out in my house this year and it is a complete rethink of the robot vacuum. Developed by two Google Nest engineers, it was designed specifically to address many of the common frustrations of the robot vacuum. It rarely gets stuck.It moves more like a human around your house and less like a robot and it just gets the job done. O ...