Fauna Robotics
Humanoid platform for real-world experiences
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Strategic Snapshot
How this brand positions its humanoid systems.
Make humanoid robots built for people, not just factories.
Human-Centered Humanoids
Fauna Robotics shifts the default from factory-first automation to robots built for people and the spaces they live and work in.
Developer-Ready Platform
Sprout is a platform customers can build on—supporting developers, enterprises, and researchers creating the next generation of humanoid experiences.
Approachable By Design
Fauna Robotics positions Sprout as friendly, lightweight, and approachable—optimized for interaction-heavy environments beyond the factory floor.
Shipping, Not Slides
Fauna Robotics states Sprout is shipping today and is showcasing live demos at NVIDIA GTC 2025—signaling near-term deployment intent.
Strategic Partnerships
Investors, customers, and integrators in the Fauna Robotics ecosystem.
Kleiner Perkins
Listed as an investor backing Fauna Robotics.
Lux Capital
Listed as an investor backing Fauna Robotics.
Fauna Robotics Product Portfolio
Sprout Creator Edition
Sprout Creator Edition is Fauna Robotics' lightweight humanoid developer platform for researchers, educators, creators, and commercial teams.
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This soft humanoid is designed to be ‘physically safe and socially approachable’ | The Verge
A startup called Fauna Robotics has revealed a new humanoid robot called Sprout it’s been developing over the past two years. Standing around 3.5-feet tall, Sprout’s design, featuring a soft padded exterior, a wide head, and expressive mechanical eyebrows, was inspired by some of science fiction’s friendlier robots like Baymax and Rosie Jetson, the startup’s co-founder and CEO, Rob Cochran, told the Associated Press. [...] Fauna Robotics says Sprout’s “movement, perception, navigation, and expression all work out of the box,” so that others can focus on developing unique applications for the humanoid instead of having to spend time teaching it to do basic things like walk. While it may be destined for labs and research facilities away from the public at first, Sprout was still developed to be approachable and function alongside humans. It’s lightweight, quiet, and was designed with “no pinch points or sharp edges” for safety reasons.
Amazon acquires humanoid developer Fauna Robotics - The Robot Report
Amazon said it is “eager to learn from the creator community as they use Sprout, and Fauna will continue to seek new business as they do today.” However, it’s unclear what Amazon plans to do with Fauna moving forward. Does the company hope to turn Sprout into a commercialized home robot? Will it take learnings from Fauna robotics to create its own humanoid or household robot? Sprout’s safety-first design, in particular, could be interesting to Amazon. Fauna designed the robot to be lightweight, have a soft exterior, and minimize pinch points. These features are uncommon in humanoid robots built for industrial purposes. [...] The Robot Report # Amazon acquires humanoid developer Fauna Robotics By Brianna Wessling | Fauna Robotics' Sprout humanoid robot is small, lightweight, and soft to touch, making it safer than the average humanoid robot. Fauna Robotics’ Sprout humanoid robot is small, lightweight, and soft to the touch, making it safer than the average humanoid robot. | Source: Fauna Robotics Amazon.com Inc. is acquiring the New York-based humanoid robot developer Fauna Robotics Inc., an Amazon spokesperson confirmed to The Robot Report. Fauna’s around 50 employees, including its founders Rob Cochran and Josh Merel, will join Amazon. [...] The acquisition comes less than a week after Amazon acquired RIVR, a company that develops quadruped robots for doorstep delivery.
Amazon just bought a startup making kid-size humanoid robots | TechCrunch
Fauna began shipping its first product, a 59-pound bipedal robot called Sprout, earlier this year to select research and development partners. This is Amazon’s second robotics acquisition — at least, that we know about — this month. Amazon confirmed to TechCrunch earlier this month that it has also acquired Rivr, a Zurich-based autonomous robotics startup known for its stair-climbing delivery robot. Terms of that deal weren’t disclosed either. Topics Amazon, fauna robotics, In Brief, rivr, Robotics Event Logo November 4 Boston Last chance to save up to $190 on TechCrunch Founder Summit. Join 1,000+ founders and VCs at all stages for real-world scaling insights and connections that move the needle. Savings end June 26, 11:59 p.m. PT. REGISTER NOW ### Newsletters See More [...] Amazon has confirmed that it has acquired Fauna Robotics, a two-year-old startup founded by former Meta and Google engineers who are developing kid-size humanoid robots for the home. The acquisition was first reported by Bloomberg. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. What we do know is that Fauna’s employees, including its two founders, will join Amazon in New York City. “We are excited about Fauna’s vision to build capable, safe, and fun robots for everyone,” an Amazon spokesperson wrote in an emailed statement. “Together with Amazon’s robotics expertise and decades of experience earning customer trust in the home through our retail and devices businesses, we’re looking forward to inventing new ways to make our customers’ lives better and easier.” [...]
What Amazon saw in Fauna Robotics’ humanoid strategy
Astro never broke through as a consumer product, and Astro for Business was discontinued within a year. Amazon had also recently shelved its Blue Jay warehouse robot. Sprout will not be walking around your living room folding laundry anytime soon. Amazon did not acquire Fauna to ship a consumer humanoid. Astro never broke through as a consumer product, and Astro for Business was discontinued within a year. Amazon had also recently shelved its Blue Jay warehouse robot. Sprout will not be walking around your living room folding laundry anytime soon. Amazon did not acquire Fauna to ship a consumer humanoid. Amazon’s acquisition of Fauna Robotics looks more like a platform move than a consumer robotics play. This makes Fauna’s humanoid, Sprout, significant beyond the deal itself. Fauna Robotics’ Sprout humanoid robot is small, lightweight, and soft to touch, making it safer than the average humanoid robot. Fauna was founded in early 2024. It raised between $16.6 million, per its SEC filing, and $30 million, per CNBC reporting, from investors including Kleiner Perkins and Lux Capital. It launched Sprout to R&D partners in January 2026 and was acquired by Amazon two months later. Reaching a working humanoid platform and an acquisition on that timeline is impressive.
Amazon Acquires Fauna Robotics, Entering Consumer Humanoid Market
Amazon.com Inc. acquired New York-based startup Fauna Robotics, becoming the latest technology giant to step into the burgeoning consumer humanoid market. The cloud-computing and e-commerce giant closed the deal for Fauna last week, according to people familiar with the purchase, who requested anonymity to discuss a private matter. Fauna is developing a human-like, 42-inch tall robot with arms and legs that can interact with people, walk, grip items and dance.
Amazon just bought a startup making kid-size humanoid robots | TechCrunch
Fauna began shipping its first product, a 59-pound bipedal robot called Sprout, earlier this year to select research and development partners. Fauna began shipping its first product, a 59-pound bipedal robot called Sprout, earlier this year to select research and development partners. Amazon has confirmed that it has acquired Fauna Robotics, a two-year-old startup founded by former Meta and Google engineers who are developing kid-size humanoid robots for the home.
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