A cable-free pool robot turned into a global category leader, a Fluidra check, and a plan to automate the entire backyard. Here is how Aiper got the pool boy out of the pool.
Roomba became shorthand for a robot vacuum. After a bruising fall and a new owner, iRobot is trying to prove that inventing the category was only its first useful trick.
Sunday is a Mountain View robotics company building Memo, a wheeled home robot that learns chores like loading the dishwasher, folding laundry and pulling espresso shots. Founded by Stanford PhD roboticists Tony Zhao and Cheng Chi, Sunday emerged from stealth in late 2025 and reached a $1.15B valuation in March 2026 after a $165M Series B led by Coatue.