{"id":363636,"date":"2026-03-25T03:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T03:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/363636\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T03:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T03:05:09","slug":"amazon-buys-fauna-robotics-maker-of-the-sprout-humanoid-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/363636\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon buys Fauna Robotics, maker of the Sprout humanoid robot"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK — Amazon has acquired Fauna Robotics, just under two months after the startup introduced a humanoid robot called Sprout<\/a> designed to be a friendly addition to social spaces like homes and schools.<\/p>\n

The e-commerce giant is already a robotics powerhouse, having boasted of deploying more than 1 million robots across its warehouse operations, but bringing the 1.5-foot-tall, rectangular-headed Sprout on board adds a robot that’s more about fun interactions than heavy lifting.<\/p>\n

Fauna CEO Rob Cochran said on social media he was \u201cincredibly excited to share that Fauna Robotics has officially joined the Amazon family\u201d and said the New York-based firm will now \u201coperate as Fauna Robotics, an Amazon company.\u201d<\/p>\n

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.<\/p>\n

Amazon said the company’s founders and employees will join Amazon in New York and will be looking for “new ways to make our customers\u2019 lives better and easier.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fauna’s debut product, launched in January, is a software developer platform more than just a robot, sold to academic and corporate research laboratories that are exploring robotics in the home. Early customers included Disney.<\/p>\n

The $50,000 Sprout can\u2019t lift heavy objects, but it can dance the Twist or the Floss, grab a toy block or teddy bear, or hoist itself from a chair and take a stroll.<\/p>\n

Amazon, which also makes the artificial intelligence assistant Alexa that’s already present in many homes, has had some challenges in recent years in expanding into consumer robotics.<\/p>\n

Amazon called off its purchase of robot vacuum maker iRobot<\/a> in 2024 after facing regulatory hurdles in Europe and the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK — Amazon has acquired Fauna Robotics, just under two months after the startup introduced a humanoid…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[164143,220,1597,218,219,72,1595,61,60,10116,80,1596],"class_list":["post-363636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-164143","tag-ai","tag-article","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-business","tag-general-news","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-robotics","tag-technology","tag-u-s-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}