Overview
- Amazon, which confirmed the deal Tuesday, said Fauna’s roughly 50 staff and founders will join its Personal Robotics Group in New York and operate as “Fauna Robotics, an Amazon company.”
- Amazon said Fauna will keep developing its 42-inch, 50-pound Sprout humanoid as it evaluates consumer commercialization and keeps financial terms undisclosed.
- Sprout costs about $50,000 and can walk, grip objects, respond to its name, and dance, and it runs on NVIDIA’s Jetson Orin with a swappable battery lasting about three hours.
- Early customers at Sprout’s January launch included Disney and Hyundai’s Boston Dynamics, pointing to a developer-focused platform for labs and real-world testing.
- The deal follows last week’s purchase of delivery-robot maker Rivr and puts Amazon into a humanoid race that includes Tesla’s Optimus and startups like Figure AI, Agility Robotics, 1X, Apptronik, and Unitree.