The verified answer
As of Aug 2026, DEPLOY verifies Sunday Robotics: 1 model, 2 deployments across 2 regions, $200.0M raised. 5 sources back the record.
CategoryHumanoids
Overview
Sunday Robotics is an AI robotics company developing laundry-folding robots for home automation. ACT-2 Preview achieved 99.1% zero-shot success rate across 785 autonomous attempts in 9 garment types in real unseen homes. Founded by Tony Zhao (@tonyzzhao). Uses 'Memo' model — first robotics model to unify broad generalization with high reliability. Single fine-tuning example teaches new behavior that generalizes.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 2 deployments on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Valuation of record
DEPLOY VERIFIEDPriced roundSeries B post-money
Key facts
CEO
CTO
Investorssee investors →
Technology
Financial stage
ACT-2 preview
ACT-2 testing
Key finding
Data & sources
Press releases
2
Web sources
3
5 sources backing this record.View all →
Models (1)
View all models →Sunday Robotics on the deployment map
View the global map2 verified deployments across 2 regions, newest verified Jun 2024. Explore where Sunday Robotics's robots are operating, by place and type.
View the full Sunday Robotics deployment record →
Relationships
Claims ledger
Public, dated claims by Sunday Robotics, each tracked against the evidence. Status is a DEPLOY assessment from primary sources: verified means an independent source confirms it; contradicted means one refutes it; open means the outcome is not yet determinable. Every entry keeps its verbatim quote and source so you can check the call yourself.
- OpenCapacity · claimed 2026-07-16
“ACT-2 Preview: first robotics model to unify broad generalization with high reliability. A single fine-tuning example can teach Memo a new behavior that generalizes. Zero shot, real unseen homes, 99% success rate. 785 autonomous attempts across 9 garment types, no per-home adaptation using single fixed model.”
Disagree with a status? Sunday Robotics can submit a correction with evidence and we log the response on the record. Methodology and the full industry ledger live at /stats/claim-integrity.
Current leadership (3)
- Cheng Chi Co-founder & CTOSEC-verified
- Tony Z. Zhao Co-founder & CEOSEC-verified
- Tony Zhao Co-founderreported, not verified
Founders (3)
- Tony Zhaocofounderno longer at company
previously at Sunday
- Tony Z. Zhaono longer at company
- Cheng Chino longer at company
previously at Sunday
Safety record
No incidents on record for Sunday Robotics.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Operator customers (1)
- Sunday Robotics2 deployments
Recent coverage
Sunday Robotics in third-party press
Peer companies
- Unitree Robotics10 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Dobot6 models
- AgiBot5 models
- AheadForm5 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
Financial state
- Total funding
- $200.0M
- Reporting basis
- aggregator_estimate
- Lifecycle stage
- early
- Counterparty risk class
- unknown
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Funding rounds (2)
Sunday Robotics’s 2 disclosed rounds, $200M in total, oldest to newest.
- Series B2026-03-12
$165M · $1.1B post
Investors: Xtal Ventures (follow), Coatue Management (lead), Bain Capital Ventures (follow), Fidelity Management & Research (follow), Tiger Global Management (follow), Benchmark (follow), Conviction Partners (follow)
- Series A2025-11-24
$35M(reported) · $210M post
Investors: Benchmark (lead), Conviction Partners (lead)
Timeline
Every recorded move in Sunday Robotics’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Funding roundSeries B funding round
2026-03-12Series B raising $165000000
Funding roundSeries A funding round
2025-11-24Series A raising $35000000
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJul 15, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJun 1, 2024
Memo at United States (multiple hotel chains)
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJun 1, 2024
Memo at Germany, Europe
Sources (5)
- https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/3/12/3254877/0/en/sunday-raises-165m-to-launch-first-autonomous-robots-by-thanksgiving.html
- https://mlq.ai/news/sunday-robotics-raises-165-million-series-b-at-115-billion-valuation-for-home-robot-launch/
- Sunday Robotics: The helpful robotics company · https://www.sunday.ai/
- Sunday's Series B: No More Demos · https://www.sunday.ai/journal/series-b
- Sunday Robotics | Valuation, Funding Rounds & Stock Price · https://www.caplight.com/company/sundayrobotics
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Methodology: Verified · 5 sources (2 primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
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Review state
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Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Sources by quality tier
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- unclassified
- Unclassified source
- 2
- primary-company-ir
- Company IR disclosure
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Sunday Robotics.Peer companies
- Unitree Robotics10 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Dobot6 models
- AgiBot5 models
- AheadForm5 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Sunday Robotics from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Sunday Robotics previews ACT-2, achieves 99.1% zero-shot laundry success
ACT-2: 99.1% zero-shot laundry success. 785 autonomous attempts, 9 garment types, unseen homes, no per-home adaptation. Single fixed model. Post-training gains transfer to…
Introducing ACT-2 Preview — first robotics model to unify broad generalization with high reliability
Tony Zhao announces ACT-2 Preview: first robotics model to unify broad generalization with high reliability. Single fine-tuning example teaches new behavior. Zero-shot, real…
The New Unicorn Count Reached A 4-Year High In March 2026
Crunchbase News covers the March 2026 unicorn class, including Sunday Robotics reaching $1.15B valuation.
Home Robots Finally Arrive: Inside Sunday Robotics
Bain Capital Ventures profiles Sunday Robotics and its Memo robot, explaining how real-world training data enables reliable household autonomy.
Sunday's Series B: No More Demos
Sunday Robotics announces $165M Series B at $1.15B valuation, led by Coatue, to deploy autonomous home robots in households.
ACT-1: A Robot Foundation Model Trained on Zero Robot Data
Sunday Robotics introduces ACT-1, a frontier foundation model trained on zero robot data that powers the Memo home robot.
This Home Robot Clears Tables and Loads the Dishwasher All by Itself
Wired covers Sunday Robotics Memo, a home robot that autonomously performs household chores like clearing tables and loading dishwashers.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/sunday-robotics.md
- RSS feed: /companies/sunday-robotics/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/e0122c2d-9922-4f1f-ac6d-d955f0fe3d94
- Revision history: /companies/sunday-robotics/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Unitree Robotics10 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Dobot6 models
- AgiBot5 models
- AheadForm5 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
Video
Deep dive into Sunday Robotics and their home robot Memo.
Memo is a personal robot, built for busy households.
Co-founders discuss the state of AI robotics and Memo.
Using the Skill Capture Glove for scalable real-world robot data collection.
Meet Memo, the new humanoid robot from Sunday Robotics.
Heat Index
Category contender75/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Sunday Robotics draws attention at the 70th percentile but verifies reality at the 26th percentile among humanoids. Hype Gap +43.9, 10th widest among humanoids.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 2 verified deployments. Well-capitalized with $200M raised and recent funding activity. Deployment footprint remains limited relative to category peers.
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Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Aug 29, 2026