Figure is a Bay Area robotics company building autonomous, general-purpose humanoid robots powered by Helix, its in-house vision-language-action model. Founded by Brett Adcock in 2022, Figure is one of a small handful of companies racing to put commercially viable humanoids inside factories, warehouses and - by late 2026 - homes.
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.