California-based Sunday Robotics made its debut this week and revealed a humanoid robot creation that can make life easier around the house.
“Memo” is designed to help families gain back time lost on repetitive household chores like cleaning, doing the dishes and folding laundry. The handy household bot is also capable of making coffee in a messy kitchen, which is much more difficult than it may sound.
Stanford computer science and robotics PhD graduates Tony Zhao and Cheng Chi are the company’s founders. They have both spent time learning about AI, engineering and robotics at prominent companies.
Zhao, CEO, has experience working as a researcher at Google DeepMind and completed a machine learning scientist internship at Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) (ETR: TL0). Chi, Chief Technical Officer, previously served as an engineering intern at Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) and a robotics research intern at the Toyota Research Institute in Massachusetts.
“After 18 months in stealth, dozens of prototypes, millions of real-home demonstrations, and one final all-nighter, we’re thrilled for you to say hello to Memo,” said Sunday on social media.
Memo has been trained using “Skill Capture Gloves” that enable the robot to distill millions of human movements into its onboard artificial intelligence system. Over 2,000 pairs of these gloves have been provided to “memory developers” who have trained Memo with data collected through performing several household tasks.
The robot’s training has come from approximately 10 million episodes of household routines, as specified by the company in a news release.
“We co-designed Memo’s hand to be a perfect mirror of the glove’s shape and sensors,” Sunday specified on its website. “As a result, any skill you demonstrate, Memo can master.”
Chi is known to have worked on a project that demonstrated how inexpensive claw-like devices could be used to gather data from humans performing monotonous labour with their hands.
Image credit: Sunday Robotics
Fifty families will get their hands on Memo in late 2026
Applications have now opened to become part of the humanoid robot’s Founding Family Beta. Successful applicants will have the opportunity to have Memo in their home by the end of next year. They will help train the droid and potentially iron out any bugs it may have during the launch phase.
Additionally, they will receive a limited edition 3D printed miniature version along with their full-size limited edition robot as a bonus.
The early-stage robotics company anticipates being able to start shipping the robot at scale in 2027/2028.
Sunday Robotics is backed by US$35 million from venture capital firms Benchmark and Conviction.
“Tony and Cheng’s approach finally makes collecting robot-ready data at a massive scale possible,” said Benchmark General Partner Eric Vishria in the release from Sunday.
“Their breakthroughs mark the start of an exponential curve toward a future where robots actually work in our day-to-day lives.”
I’m looking forward to the future Star Wars inspired future. With robots all shapes and sizes.
Humanoids, sticks on segway with 2,3,4,5 arms, R2D2 open source droids.
The futures of robotics is very versatile
this is Sunday, stick on a segway
— Linus ✦ Ekenstam (@LinusEkenstam) November 20, 2025
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