Sunday Robotics Unveils Memo, Autonomous Home Robot That Loads Dishwashers and Serves Wine After 2-Year Development
Summary
Sunday Robotics unveils Memo, an autonomous home robot that loads dishwashers, serves wine, and makes espresso, trained through innovative $200 gloves worn by 500 data collectors nationwide instead of costly traditional methods.
Key Points
- Sunday Robotics emerges from stealth with Memo, a fully autonomous home robot that can clear dinner tables, load dishwashers, handle wine glasses, and make espresso after less than 2 years of development
- The startup uses proprietary gloves that mimic the robot's hands instead of traditional teleoperation methods, allowing humans to demonstrate tasks and provide training data at $200 versus $20,000 for conventional approaches
- Sunday employs over 500 data collectors across the US wearing these gloves to train Memo, with the robot successfully completing more than 20 live demonstrations without breaking any wine glasses