I haven’t been particularly quiet about how much I like the unusually boxy, upright Matic robot vacuum since reviewing it last year. Even if it can’t get under my couch, it’s so smartly designed and so effective everywhere else that it has become the yardstick by which I judge all other floor-cleaning automatons. Now, after many months of steadily ticking smaller feature checkboxes, Matic has rolled out a big update that brings voice and gesture control.

Together, the new input methods are called “Matic Cues.” Starting today, Aug. 13, owners with the new firmware will be able to use the wake phrase “Hey Matic” and issue natural language…

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