Tutor Intelligence · Sonny V1 · 2026

An AI picking robot,
made for DTC.

Sonny rolls through the warehouse you already have, fills a cart of multi-order totes, and pulls back to your pack stations. One tote per order. Many orders per trip. Vision-verified before he ever lets go.

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Sonny, autonomous picking robot
Watertown · MABuilt In-House
Current Fleet100 Sonnys
Production StackLive · Multi-site · Over a Year Shipped
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02 / The Robot

One base, two arms, one cart of totes.

Sonny rolls onto the floor you already have, fills a cart of totes, and pulls back to your pack stations. One tote per order. Vision-verifies every SKU before he ever lets go.

FRONT ELEVATION 01 72" 28" FLOOR SIDE ELEVATION · WORKING 02 FLOOR · GRADE 72" 54" 36" 18" 0 72" 86" 01 02 03 04 05 PLAN VIEW 03 SCALE 1:12 PROJECTION THIRD-ANGLE ARM REACH N FOOTPRINT + TRAILER PARTS LIST 01 Stereo vision 02 Manipulator arms 03 Two-finger gripper, inner suction 04 Mobile base 05 Cart of totes DRAWING REVISION LOCATION SHEET Tutor Intelligence SONNY · ANATOMY V1 Round 05 · 2026.04 Watertown · MA 100,000 sqft Design · Build · Operate 02 / 12 Anatomy
03 / Who Built Him

Half research lab, half deployment company.

2021
Founded
MIT
AI Lab Origin
Watertown
MA Headquarters
All of It
Design · Build · Operate · Support
04 / A Hundred Built

We've built a hundred
of him.

Our current fleet · Final integrationWatertown / MA / 2026
05 / What He's Built For

Small items × many variants × seasonal cycles.

The shape of work that breaks goods-to-person and burns out humans. A long tail of look-alike SKUs that move in waves. Sonny doesn't care how big your company is. He cares about the catalog.

Item Size

Small Light Mid Pallet Bulky

Variants

100s of SKUs Look-alikes Seasonal Lines Custom Kits Single-SKU

Cadence

Peaks & Troughs Drops Holiday Spikes Steady-State Flat-Line

Floor

Existing Racking Human-Walkable Multi-Zone Goods-to-Person Conveyor-Locked
06 / Your Floor, Unchanged

Most automation makes you change. Sonny doesn't.

Sonny works in the warehouse you already have. Your racking, your aisles, your pack stations. When you need more throughput, you add another Sonny. He coordinates with the rest. Proof, below.

Live · Three Sonnys · Zone DisciplineYour aisles · No retrofit
Three Sonnys, your aisles, no retrofit. Add a fourth and the pattern holds.
07 / One Hand, Two Modes

Yes, even the small stuff.

A parallel-jaw gripper handles boxes, bottles, the workhorse items. For everything small, light, or awkward, a suction tool extends from between the jaws and reaches into the bin. One hand, two modes. No tool changes.

● V1 Research · Lab Prototype
Parallel Jaws
The workhorse mode. Clamps boxes, bottles, rigid items. Unchanged from the lab to the warehouse.
TypeTwo-finger jaw
GripClamp
Good ForBoxes · Bottles
Production · Sonny V1
Jaws + Inner Suction
Same hand, plus a suction tool that deploys from between the jaws. It extends down into bins, picks the small stuff, retracts. No tool changes, no second arm.
TypeJaw + inner suction
GripClamp · or Reach
Good ForBoxes · Bottles · Small Parts · Pouches
Tool ChangesNone
08 / The Rework Loop

The cost of a wrong pick.

DTC mispick rates run 0.5 to 1.5%. The SKU itself is the cheap part. It's the cleanup downstream that bleeds.

Cost Where the dollars go.
One wrong pick. CS contact + ticket ~$8 Inventory investigation ~$6 Re-pick + re-ship ~$14 Refund processing ~$4 Brand goodwill ~$12 ~$44
Downstream cleanup per mispick. The SKU is the cheap part.
The Answer Vision verifies before he places.

Sonny sees the SKU before the tote. Mispicks become structurally near-zero. Accuracy stops being a skill problem and becomes a system property.

01 Pick → Place → Hope Human · today
02 Pick → Verify → Place Sonny
Vision-verified picking has shipped in our production fleet for over a year. Live · Multi-site
09 / The Model

We only earn when Sonny works.

Pay per pick. Nothing up front. Scales with your peaks. Our skin in the game, not yours.

Default · Pay Per Pick
How every Sonny ships

Pay per pick.

Nothing up front, nothing monthly, no minimums. You pay only for picks that ship clean. Our skin in the game.

01
$0 Upfront
No capex line. No PO to chase. No quarter-long approval cycle.
02
Scales With Peaks
Spend rises with your volume in November. Falls back in February. You don't pay for idle Sonnys.
03
We Maintain Him
Software, hardware, on-call ops, parts. All on us. When a Sonny stalls at 2am, Watertown picks up.

Prefer to own? Capital purchase available if your CFO insists. Ask us about the buy-out path.

The Close

Made for your floor.