Sunday-robotics

Sunday Robotics has revealed "Memo," a wheeled home robot powered by the "ACT-1" foundation model. Bypassing traditional teleoperation, the company is training its AI using human data captured via low-cost gloves, targeting a 2026 beta release.

In its most significant reveal yet, Sunday Robotics'' third video shows a wheeled robot with a vertical lift. A custom, dual-gripper end-effector—built "entirely in-house"—is shown performing a complex two-glass pickup, revealing a "utility-first" strategy that's a major departure from the humanoid race.

In a new daily video, Sunday Robotics shows a simple two-fingered claw handling a dishwasher tablet, suggesting its "mm level precision" comes from software, not complex hardware.

A new Mountain View startup, Sunday Robotics, founded by ex-DeepMind and Tesla engineer Tony Zhao, is teasing a November 19 reveal. The company, which has been in stealth for 1.5 years and is backed by VC firm Conviction, is positioning its debut on par with the launch of the iPhone.