Sunday Robotics

Sunday Robotics is an American company that describes itself as a “helpful robotics company”, that is, a robotics firm whose goal is to help with everyday matters. The manufacturer gives no founding year, headquarters city or funding data, so we do not fill in those elements. What is known is that the company develops one product: Memo, an autonomous home robot for kitchen tasks — washing dishes, brewing coffee or folding socks. Units are currently built by hand, and a beta program called “Founding Families” starts in 2026; market entry is planned for the period after 2026. This means the company is at a stage where its future is decided by the move from single units to series production, not by a sales record. We compare such a situation with other players in the piece on “1X Neo Home Robot on Pre-Order”, and the wider home-robot market is described in the home robots category. At this stage it is hard to judge the maturity of the technology, because independent tests are missing. The first deployments in households will show whether the robot copes outside a controlled environment, which is the most important question for any company in this segment.

In our catalog the company is represented by Sunday Robotics Memo, a home robot with pilot status in the home robots category. It is about 120 cm tall, and the arm reaches up to 2.1 m (about 1.2 m at rest). The named tasks are washing dishes, making coffee and folding socks. A hand-built unit currently costs about 20,000 USD (about 77,500 PLN (≈ EUR 17,760) at 3.8762), and the manufacturer says series production will cut the cost by more than 50 percent; the retail price has not yet been announced. The manufacturer does not state weight, number of degrees of freedom or battery life, so we leave them out. The absence of this data makes it harder to judge practicality; tips on reading such gaps are collected in “How to Read a Robot Datasheet”, and the real costs of home robots are discussed in “How Much Does a Humanoid Robot Cost in 2026”. Home safety, which also belongs to this class, is a conversation begun in “Data Security: Robots with Cameras and the GDPR”. The price of 20,000 USD applies to a hand-made unit, not a production version, so it should be treated not as a price list but as a reference point for the future reduction. The manufacturer also does not say how the robot copes with tasks other than those named.

Among other home robots Memo stands out for its narrow specialization in kitchen work. Sony's Sony aibo ERS-1000 is a companion pet without manipulation, while the 1X NEO from 1X Technologies aims at general household help, like the concepts from Figure AI and Tesla described in the humanoid robots category. Such specialization can be an advantage, because it limits the range of tasks the robot must master, but it also narrows the circle of buyers. The manufacturer gives no data on funding or on a European presence, so we do not assess the company's strength. With the retail price and market-entry date still open, comparisons with finished products are premature for now. We follow the company as one of the more interesting candidates, but without a purchase recommendation. For someone who wants to automate only dishwashing and coffee, a narrow robot may prove more sensible than a universal humanoid, provided the retail price is lower than for general-purpose machines.

In our catalog Memo is listed as unavailable in Poland, and the manufacturer gives no data on a European presence. Sales are to start only after 2026, so Polish customers currently have no official route to purchase or service. Before considering import, the device's compliance with EU rules would have to be checked and it would have to be settled who provides support. Home use cases are discussed on the page “Home”, and domestic companies in the field are listed in the overview “Polish Robotics Companies”. Until market entry we recommend following the company's announcements and independent tests, which may appear after the beta program starts.

Memo is a promising but still unavailable kitchen robot whose assessment depends on the series price and on the results of the beta program. Until then it remains a curiosity for market watchers. A Polish buyer should wait for the price and European plans to be announced. Memo deserves attention for its concrete idea: a robot for the kitchen, not for everything. Before ordering anything, however, we need the series price, a delivery date for Europe and independent opinions from beta users.