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A concise view of platform maturity and deployment footprint.
Founded by Stanford PhD roboticists Tony Zhao (ALOHA creator) and Cheng Chi, building Memo, a wheeled household robot trained on 10 million real home routines from 500+ homes. Reached $1.15 billion valuation in March 2026 with $165M Series B led by Coatue Management.
Sunday Robotics is a Mountain View-based robotics company developing autonomous household robots for everyday domestic tasks. Founded by Stanford researchers Tony Zhao and Cheng Chi, whose work on ALOHA and diffusion policy helped advance robot imitation learning, the company focuses on bringing practical manipulation into real homes. Its flagship robot, Memo, is a wheeled semi-humanoid designed to handle chores such as dishes, laundry, tidying, and household item movement. Trained on millions of routines collected from more than 500 homes, Sunday Robotics is building a data-driven path toward useful consumer robotics.
Platform maturity, autonomy stack, and flagship-system specifications in one view.
A concise view of platform maturity and deployment footprint.
Published operating specifications for the lead system.
$165 million
Sunday Robotics was founded by Tony Zhao and Cheng Chi, Stanford researchers whose ALOHA system and Action Chunking with Transformers laid groundwork for a new approach to household robotics. Zhao dropped out of his Stanford PhD to co-found the company.
The company raised a $35 million Series A from Benchmark and Conviction, developing Skill Capture Gloves that recorded ~10 million household routines across 500+ homes.
Sunday emerged from stealth on November 19, 2025, unveiling Memo, a wheeled semi-humanoid prioritizing reliable manipulation over bipedal locomotion.
In March 2026, Sunday raised a $165 million Series B led by Coatue, reaching $1.15 billion valuation. Deliveries begin Thanksgiving 2026.
Sunday Robotics is a Mountain View-based company building autonomous household robots, founded by Stanford researchers Tony Zhao and Cheng Chi whose work on ALOHA and diffusion policy advanced robot imitation learning. Its flagship Memo is a wheeled semi-humanoid designed for domestic chores, trained on millions of routines from 500+ homes.