Memo Home Robot to Launch Beta

CyberRobooo · x · 2026-07-17

This update covers the new generation "Brain" for the home robot Memo, along with Sunday Robotics's progress on ACT-2.

Key takeaways:

The biggest hurdle for home robots is the instability and complexity of real-world environments: messy clothes, lighting changes, children playing, and vast environmental differences.
Last November, ACT-1 drew attention for its zero-teleop training and robust generalization.
The new ACT-2 further proves that by scaling up pre-training, lab improvements can transfer more reliably to unseen new homes.
The author cites the following results: a 99.1% zero-shot success rate for folding 9 types of clothing across various unseen environments.
Beyond folding, the system exhibits more emergent capabilities: obstacle/disturbance recovery, perturbation resistance, and whole-body manipulation.
Memo can also handle more tasks: vacuuming, organizing toys, zipping zippers, flipping pants, making coffee, etc.
The plan is to enter household Beta testing this fall. It will initially remain a premium-priced product, but the author believes it could eventually expand to scenarios like hotels and Airbnb rentals.

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