In recent years, Amazon has acquired a number of companies to further grow and gain expertise in some areas such as robotics and e-commerce. The former category now also includes the purchase of Fauna Robotics. The New York startup, founded in 2024 by former Meta and Google engineers, was acquired by Amazon for an undisclosed sum.
Fauna Robotics continues to operate under the Amazon flag
Speaking to CNBC, an Amazon spokesperson said of the purchase: “We are excited about Fauna’s vision of creating capable, safe and fun robots for everyone. Combined with Amazon’s robotics expertise and decades of experience earning customer trust through our retail and products, we look forward to inventing new ways to make our customers’ lives better and easier.”
Fauna Robotics introduced a new robot just a few weeks ago. “Sprout” is advertised as an accessible and “modern platform for robotics development”. The two-legged robot is 107 centimeters tall, weighs 22.7 kilos and has a soft rubber outer layer. Sprout is able to pick up objects, autonomously find paths in his environment and interact with people around him.
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According to Fauna Robotics, Sprout is primarily intended for three groups of customers: The small robot gives developers a platform to quickly test their own apps and ideas instead of having to provide the hardware themselves. Companies can use Sprout to create “next-gen AI applications” and deploy them safely in human-contact environments thanks to Fauna’s high security standards.
Last but not least, Sprout is intended for researchers who want to explore locomotion, autonomy, and interactions between humans and robots. The robot is unlikely to be an option for private users due to the price. Fauna Robotics is asking for $50,000 for the model. The first business partners that Fauna Robotics has been able to acquire since its founding include Boston Dynamics and Disney.
In a Linkedin post, Fauna CEO Rob Cochran emphasizes that nothing will change for customers initially. The robotics company will continue to work on its robots, but will now operate as “Fauna Robotics, an Amazon company”. For Fauna’s 50 employees, this means that they will swap their usual jobs and work directly on the Amazon campus in New York in the future.
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