Sunday becomes latest robotics unicorn with $165M round
Mountain View–based robotics startup Sunday has raised a landmark $165 million Series B funding round, pushing its valuation to $1.15 billion and cementing its status as one of the most closely watched companies in the emerging market for autonomous home robots.
The round was led by investment firm Coatue, with participation expected from a mix of existing and new institutional backers focused on frontier robotics and AI. The new capital will be used to scale engineering, expand data infrastructure, and prepare for a broader rollout of the company’s home chore robots.
A data-first approach to autonomous home chore robots
Sunday is developing fully autonomous home chore robots designed to handle everyday tasks such as tidying, loading dishwashers, sorting laundry, and other repetitive household activities. Rather than relying solely on pre-programmed routines, the company is building a system that learns directly from human behavior.
At the heart of its platform is the proprietary Skill Capture Glove, a sensor-rich wearable that allows humans to demonstrate tasks in natural motion. These demonstrations are translated into high-fidelity datasets that power AI algorithms and robot learning, creating what the company describes as a self-reinforcing data flywheel: more demonstrations lead to better models, which in turn enable more capable home robots.
Beta program slated for 2026 amid strong demand
Sunday plans to launch its first large-scale beta program in 2026. According to the company, thousands of prospective users have already joined a waitlist, signaling strong early consumer interest in autonomous chore assistance.
The beta rollout will focus on select U.S. households, where the robots’ real-world performance, reliability, and safety can be evaluated at scale. Feedback from these homes will be used to refine computer vision, manipulation, and navigation capabilities before a wider commercial launch.
Raising the stakes in the home robotics race
The latest funding positions Sunday as a key contender in the race to bring general-purpose home robotics to consumers. By combining a hardware platform with a continuous data collection and model training pipeline, the startup is betting that its Skill Capture Glove–driven approach will yield more adaptable and capable household robots than rule-based or narrowly specialized systems.
As investors increasingly back companies at the intersection of AI and physical automation, Sunday’s new status as a unicorn underscores growing confidence that autonomous robots will move from factories and warehouses into everyday homes over the coming decade.