Tuesday Labs
Category: Robotics / Embodied AI
New York City robotics lab and design studio building Voxel, a bipedal home robot that tidies, fetches, finds lost items and tends plants. Tuesday Labs was founded in 2023. The company is led by Rosalind (Ros) Shinkle. Based in New York City, United States. Team size: 1-10. Total funding raised: $500K. Latest round: Pre-Seed. Key investors include Y Combinator, FCVC, FundersClub, Ludlow Ventures, Pioneer Fund, Fellows Fund, Soma Capital, Liquid 2 Ventures.
- Founded
- 2023
- Headquarters
- New York City, United States
- Team size
- 1-10
- Total funding
- $500K
Value proposition
A home robot with a character design that takes over routine household upkeep. It returns items to their places, finds misplaced objects, fetches things and waters plants, so people spend less time on chores.
Products and solutions
Voxel Series-1: a bipedal home robot with reverse Z-shaped knees, two 7-DoF arms with single-DoF grippers, stereo RGB cameras plus a wide-field room camera, and pixel-animated eyes. It targets four tasks: Home Reset, Find, Fetch and Tend. Reservations cost $200 (refundable), the expected price is about $20,000, and US shipping is targeted for 2028.
Unique value
The robot's character is part of the training signal. Pixar-experienced animators create reference motions that train the locomotion policy through DeepMimic-style reinforcement learning, which aims to make movement predictable and trustworthy at home. The product launches with a deliberately narrow, reliable task set.
Target customer
US consumers and households, especially early adopters of premium home robots.
Industries served
Consumer robotics, smart home, household assistance
Technology advantage
Reinforcement-learning motion imitation driven by animator-created reference clips designed for a non-human body shape. A persistent 3D object-location memory supports the 'find' and 'reset' tasks. Simple grippers favor reliability. The founder has manipulation experience from Boston Dynamics' Spot arm program, and the team has backgrounds at Boston Dynamics, Tesla, Pixar, CMU, Harvard, Penn and Georgia Tech.
How they differentiate
Voxel launches with a narrow, reliable task set (tidying, finding, fetching, tending) rather than general-purpose humanoid ambitions. Its body is non-anthropomorphic and its locomotion is trained from character animation. Competitors pursue humanoid general-purpose designs with dexterous hands.
Main competitors
1X (NEO), Weave Robotics (Isaac 1), Figure AI
Key partnerships
Y Combinator (W24 batch), Pixar-experienced character animator on staff
Major milestones
2023: founded as Adagy Robotics, initially focused on remote human assistance for autonomous robots. 2024: joined Y Combinator Winter 2024 and raised a $500K pre-seed. Later rebranded to Tuesday Labs and pivoted to home robots. Oct 2026: opened Voxel Series-1 reservations ($200 deposit, about $20K price, 2028 ship target).
Growth metrics
About 7 employees according to the YC directory; Voxel has been in development for about 3 years.
Market positioning
Very early-stage, YC-backed premium consumer home-robot entrant. The product is in the reservation phase, with deliveries not expected until 2028 and household reliability not yet proven.
Geographic focus
United States (initial US deliveries)
Patents and IP
TUESDAY LABS trademark application UK00004373857, filed April 16, 2026 and published May 1, 2026, names Adagy Robotics, Inc. as applicant. Claims priority to US trademark application 99463885 dated October 27, 2025. Covers household robots and related software, among other goods and services.
About Rosalind (Ros) Shinkle
Ex-Boston Dynamics Staff Robotics Engineer, Spot Manipulation team (2019-2023), where she built the Spot arm's perception and grasping algorithms; University of Pennsylvania BSE in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics and Master's in Robotics. Founded Tuesday Labs, formerly Adagy Robotics, in 2023.
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Official website: https://tuesdaylabs.com