half-bodied home robot memo looks more like playful cartoon character than humanoid

"Meet Memo, the personal home robot by Sunday that resembles more of a playful and joyful cartoon character than a humanoid assistant. Made to complete household tasks, the roving device has a round head with two straight eyes, a head with a hat-like top piece, and a torso shaped like a cylinder. The arm connects to the torso through a circular joint, while the body and arm sections use smooth shapes and surfaces."

"The device, which forms part of the growing community of household humanoid assistants including NEO Gamma and Figure 03, only comes with half of a body because it suspends over a stand, and at the bottom, it comes with a wheelbase, as if it were an autonomous robotic vacuum cleaner. In a way, it is, only with typical household chores, including laundry, cleaning up the mess, and loading up the dishwasher."

"A feature that makes the device different from the other household robots is that Memo learns the user's movement using a glove worn by their human owners. It is called the Skill Capture Glove. When the owner wears the glove, the robot records and remembers every movement from the owner's action because the glove and the robot hand share the same sensor layout."

Memo is a personal home robot with a playful, cartoon-like design featuring a round head, straight eyes, a hat-like top, and a cylindrical torso. The exterior is covered in silicone to be kid- and house-friendly and to allow easier cleaning with common household products. The device suspends over a stand and moves on a wheelbase, enabling it to travel through spaces like an autonomous vacuum while focusing on chores such as laundry, tidying, and loading the dishwasher. Memo contains motors, sensors, cameras, a computer unit, and safety systems and operates at a deliberately slow pace. The robot learns user movements through a Skill Capture Glove that mirrors the robot hand's sensor layout.

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