{"id":27655,"date":"2026-03-13T02:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T02:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=27655"},"modified":"2026-03-13T02:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T02:47:12","slug":"humanoid-robotics-maker-sunday-reaches-1-15b-valuation-to-build-household-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=27655","title":{"rendered":"Humanoid robotics maker Sunday reaches $1.15B valuation to build household robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Robotics company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunday.ai\/company\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Sunday<\/a> has raised a new funding round that has valued the company at unicorn status, meaning over $1 billion, it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/news-release\/2026\/03\/12\/3254877\/0\/en\/Sunday-Raises-165M-to-Launch-First-Autonomous-Robots-by-Thanksgiving.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">announced<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sunday says it has raised $165 million at a $1.15 billion valuation in a Series B round led by Coatue Management. Other investors in the round include Tiger Global, Benchmark, and Bain Capital Ventures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company emerged from stealth late last year and already has 1,000 people on its waitlist, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-03-12\/dishwashing-home-robot-maker-sunday-hits-1-15-billion-valuation?srnd=homepage-americas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Bloomberg reports<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sunday, founded by Tony Zhao and Cheng Chi, is on a quest to build a household humanoid robot called Memo that helps with tasks like laundry and clearing the table.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Experts have been trying for decades to build a robot like this \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/10\/25\/tiktok-robot-star-rizzbot-gave-me-the-middle-finger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a type of Rosie from \u201cThe Jetsons\u201d<\/a> \u2014 but have come up short time and again, in large part because of a lack of training data to teach robots how to reliably grasp objects of differing weights, textures, and fragility (e.g., towels versus wineglasses). As AI technology continues to advance, a new slew of robotic technologies is hitting the market, hoping to once again bring the humanoid helper to life.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-techcrunch-inline-cta\">\n<div class=\"inline-cta__wrapper\">\n<p>Techcrunch event<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-cta__content\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-cta__location\">San Francisco, CA<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-cta__separator\">|<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-cta__date\">October 13-15, 2026<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/03\/12\/humanoid-robotics-maker-sunday-reaches-1-15b-valuation-to-build-household-robots\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robotics company Sunday has ra&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[249],"tags":[6458,329,952,7029],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}