Sonny

Sonny is Tutor Intelligence's second hardware embodiment — a semi-humanoid bimanual robot designed for work currently performed manually in factories and warehouses, including machine tending and complex assembly operations. The company describes it as a "low-complexity humanoid": skipping the mechanical complexity of full humanoids in favor of speed, precision and repeatability comparable to traditional automation systems.

Sonny shares the same collaborative robot hardware, sensor stack, electrical stack and contract manufacturing supply chain as the deployed Cassie embodiment. This platform commonality is deliberate — it lets Tutor Intelligence maintain high fleet availability and data throughput while scaling quickly.

Since April 2026, a fleet of 100 Sonny robots has been operating in Data Factory 1 (DF1) — according to Tutor Intelligence the largest robot data factory in the United States. Remote operators ("Tutors") control the robots through a VR proprioceptive teleoperation interface (PTeleop) and a 2D interface, providing demonstrations, error corrections, and episode-level scoring across the full learning loop: behavior cloning, supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning.

DF1 data trains Ti0 — Tutor Intelligence's first Vision-Language-Action model targeted at dexterous bimanual manipulation. Over the coming months, Tutor Intelligence plans to launch initial commercial deployments of the Sonny platform with industrial partners, building a flywheel of compounding policy improvement driven by real-world operational data.