Sunday Robotics
Building Memo, a wheeled two-armed household robot trained on data from its 'skill capture glove'
Scaleup · Pilot · Humanoid startup · Mountain View, California, United States · Founded 2024 · sunday.ai
Profile
Sunday builds Memo, a wheeled household robot that learns chores from human demonstrations recorded with a wearable glove. A $165M Series B led by Coatue in Mar 2026 valued it at $1.15B. Beta home deliveries are targeted for late 2026.
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People
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Leadership on X
What leadership has posted about robotics, AI and tech in the last 30 days.
- Questioned Figure's claim of useful work in unseen homes, pointing to a reported 237 of 420 success rate and arguing that useful work needs both generalization and reliability.1
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Flagship robots
- Memo Wheeled humanoid
Household robot; beta deliveries planned for late 2026
Funding and valuation
Latest round
$165M
Series B · Mar 12, 2026
Led by Coatue.
Valuation
$1.15B
valuation (Series B) · Mar 12, 2026
Hiring signals
- Open roles
- 24all roles
- Top location
- Redwood City · 96%23 of 24 roles
- Top role area
- AI & foundation models9 roles · 39% of 23 engineering & ops
Where the roles are · share of 24 open roles (all roles)
- Redwood City, California, US96%23 roles
- Remote, US4%1 roles
Locations are where the posting says the job is based, not where the robots are built. A posting that lists several sites is counted once, under the first.
Role mix · 23 engineering & ops roles
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Roles are sorted into a fixed list of areas by job title. Percentages are of engineering & ops roles. The other 1 open roles (finance, HR, legal, sales, facilities and similar) are in the total but not shown here.
Notable postings
- JobSenior role in AI & foundation models, one of the company's largest hiring areasTechnical Program Manager, Data EngineRedwood City, California, US
- JobTypical role in Embedded & electrical, one of the company's largest hiring areasEmbedded Software EngineerRedwood City, California, US
- JobTypical role in Manufacturing engineering, one of the company's largest hiring areasR&D Engineering TechnicianRedwood City, California, US
- JobTypical role in Software & infrastructure, one of the company's largest hiring areasRobotics Systems Software Integration EngineerRedwood City, California, US
- JobSenior role in Other engineering & ops, one of the company's largest hiring areasSenior Product Manager, InfraRedwood City, California, US
As of . Scope: all roles. Counts are our reading of public job postings, not company statements.
Scope note All open Sunday Robotics postings, read from its Ashby job board (jobs.ashbyhq.com/sunday).
Trademarks
4 names filed in the US since 2025 · last checked .
- MEMO Approved for publicationIndustrial robots; household cleaning robots; household cleaning robots with artificial intelligence.
Our guess: may be a household cleaning robot
- SATURDAY SuspendedIndustrial robots; household cleaning robots; household cleaning robots with artificial intelligence.
- SUNDAY SuspendedIndustrial robots; household cleaning robots; household cleaning robots with artificial intelligence.
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- Logo (no words) Approved for publicationIndustrial robots; household cleaning robots; household cleaning robots with artificial intelligence.
Source: USPTO Trademark Search, matched on the company’s legal names. Rechecked on the 1st and 15th of each month. A filing shows intent to use a name in the US, not a launched product.
Competitors
Companies with overlapping products. Direct = same customers and same job; Adjacent = overlapping technology or market, different focus.
1X Technologies
Direct competitorBoth are bringing household robots to homes: 1X Technologies sells the NEO humanoid for the home, while Sunday Robotics is building Memo, a wheeled two-armed household robot.
The Bot Company
Adjacent competitorBoth aim at household robots: The Bot Company is a stealthy household-robot startup founded by Kyle Vogt, while Sunday Robotics is building Memo, a wheeled two-armed household robot.
Astribot (Stardust Intelligence)
Adjacent competitorBoth make wheeled two-armed robots for homes: Astribot makes the tendon-driven S1 wheeled humanoid for homes and services, while Sunday Robotics is building Memo, a wheeled two-armed household robot.
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LG Electronics (Robotics)
Adjacent competitorBoth are selling robots for the home: LG Electronics makes the CLOiD wheeled home robot, while Sunday Robotics is building Memo, a wheeled two-armed household robot.
Recent news
Sources
- Sunday Raises $165M to Launch First Autonomous Robots by Thanksgiving (GlobeNewswire) (Mar 12, 2026)
- Sunday raises $165M at $1.15B valuation to launch Memo household robot (SiliconANGLE) (Mar 12, 2026)
Confidence: medium.