Robotics firm Sunday has raised a brand new funding spherical that has valued the corporate at unicorn standing, which means over $1 billion, it announced on Thursday.
Sunday says it has raised $165 million at a $1.15 billion valuation in a Collection B spherical led by Coatue Administration. Different buyers within the spherical embody Tiger World, Benchmark, and Bain Capital Ventures.
The corporate emerged from stealth late final 12 months and already has 1,000 individuals on its waitlist, Bloomberg reports.
Sunday, based by Tony Zhao and Cheng Chi, is on a quest to construct a family humanoid robotic known as Memo that helps with duties like laundry and clearing the desk.
Specialists have been attempting for many years to construct a robotic like this — a kind of Rosie from “The Jetsons” — however have come up quick repeatedly, largely due to a scarcity of coaching knowledge to show robots methods to reliably grasp objects of differing weights, textures, and fragility (e.g., towels versus wineglasses). As AI expertise continues to advance, a brand new slew of robotic applied sciences is hitting the market, hoping to as soon as once more deliver the humanoid helper to life.
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