Sunday Robotics, the San Francisco home-robotics startup behind the Memo wheeled household robot, has closed an oversubscribed $165 million Series B at a $1.15 billion valuation, vaulting it into unicorn status as it prepares its first commercial shipments. The round was led by Coatue, with partner Thomas Laffont joining the Sunday board, and welcomed Bain Capital Ventures, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Tiger Global Management, Benchmark, Conviction and Xtal Ventures.
From demo videos to dishwashers
Sunday says the financing marks the company's transition from controlled-environment demos to real homes. The first product, Memo, is a wheeled robot that can recognise objects on a kitchen counter, pick them up with articulated manipulators and place them in dishwashers, drawers or fridges. Sunday plans to begin shipping Memo to beta participants within months and reach paying households by Thanksgiving 2026.
Skill Capture Glove as a data flywheel
The Memo's manipulation policies are trained on roughly 10 million real household episodes collected from more than 500 homes using Sunday's proprietary Skill Capture Glove. Operators wear the glove while doing real chores, generating dexterous demonstrations that are replayed into Memo's policies — a data flywheel Sunday argues is structurally hard for general-purpose humanoid programs to match.
Capital meets a crowded home-robot field
The Coatue-led round lands in a year that has already seen multi-billion-dollar home and embodied-AI raises and a wave of strategic deals across the humanoid stack. Sunday's pitch — wheeled, narrow, household-first — is a deliberate bet that the first profitable home robot will look more like a smart cart than a walking android, and that household chores can be productised before bipedal locomotion is solved.
What the money buys
Sunday says proceeds will go to scaling manufacturing, growing the Skill Capture data programme, and standing up the customer-success operations needed to deploy a robot in someone's kitchen. The company is also expanding its policy research team to ship continual upgrades to Memo's skills over the air after launch.
Reporting based on coverage from SiliconANGLE, GlobeNewswire, The AI Insider and Humanoids Daily.