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In a new interview, Tony Zhao and Cheng Chi detail their "data-first" philosophy, the end of teleoperation, and why they believe the industry is stuck between "GPT" and "ChatGPT."

Two California startups are racing to solve the household robot, but their approaches couldn''t be more different. We break down the great bifurcation between Sunday Robotics'' utilitarian "Memo" and 1X Technologies'' humanoid "Neo."

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.