Sonny is building palm-sized humanoid figurines that walk around your home, notice the world, and play on their own. Real autonomy at action-figure scale.
Generations of kids have watched their toys come alive on a screen and quietly half-believed it was happening behind them, in the room. We’re building the version where it actually is.
Sonny is a 22-centimeter, 3D-printed humanoid that walks the rooms of your home on its own. It sees what’s around it, hears you, and holds a thought across days. The body is action-figure scale; the mind is closer to a small character than a smart speaker.
Sensing, control, and physical embodiment built around each other — small enough to fit in something the size of a coffee mug.
Stereo vision on a Seeed XIAO ESP32-S3 Sense feeds a live model of the room. Sonny recognizes objects and faces directly on the device, without a round-trip to a server.
A local control loop handles movement and reflex. A cloud-augmented LLM carries personality, dialogue, and the persistent memory that Sonny brings from one session to the next.
Tendon-driven limbs let Sonny move with the proportions of an action figure rather than a hobby biped. Eighteen actuated joints, plus a passive toe hinge for natural push-off at the end of each step.
Component-level honesty. Every part traceable, most parts replaceable, the whole thing repairable on a kitchen table.
Cheap precision micro-servos, perception models small enough to run on a coin-sized board, and language models cheap enough to give a toy a real interior life — all of it landed in the same window. The thing that was impossible a decade ago is buildable now, by a small team, in a workshop.
A strictly limited first run ships in late 2027. The waitlist gets early access and updates from the workshop.
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