Tutor Intelligence has unveiled next-generation versions of its Cassie and Sonny robots, extending both platforms for material handling, e-commerce fulfillment and other industrial applications. The new Cassie is now fully autonomously mobile, allowing the single-arm robot to move between workstations and perform different jobs around factories and warehouses. It is already used for depalletization, induction, end-of-line palletization and repackaging, and Tutor says its deployed robots have completed millions of bulk picks in production facilities across the United States.
Key takeaways
- Cassie runs on Tutor's Turing 200-million-parameter foundation model series, using camera data to perceive surroundings and perform tasks without conventional programming or application-specific configuration.
- The latest Cassie uses a four-wheel mobile base, carries enough battery capacity to operate for more than one shift, and includes onboard vacuum generation, two 3D LiDAR units and 2D LiDAR for autonomous navigation and human detection.
- Cassie will begin deployments in end-to-end case-picking operations this fall, autonomously moving through existing facilities to support business-to-business fulfillment without major infrastructure modifications.
- The new Sonny, a more human-like platform for greater dexterity, builds on Tutor's Data Factory 1 project, a 100-robot facility for collecting physical-world training data.
- Sonny is Tutor's first deployed platform powered by its Ti0 4.5-billion-parameter vision-language-action foundation model, with first commercial use in e-commerce fulfillment: navigating brownfield warehouses, picking arbitrary items from racking and delivering completed orders to packout.
Tutor plans to expand Sonny into manufacturing assembly, packaging and industrial maintenance as deployments increase. The company says its robot fleet is growing 20 percent month over month and that it is expanding robot manufacturing in the United States to support additional deployments.
Source: Robotics & Automation News · Published 2026-09-26T06:42:11 · “Tutor Intelligence unveils next-generation Cassie and Sonny robots”