Facts

• Segment: Humanoid
• Country: United States
• Website: https://faunarobotics.com/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Products
• Facts
• Funding
• Investors
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Team
• Relationships
• Context tags
• Record / Articles
• Sources

Summary

Fauna Robotics builds Sprout, a soft humanoid robot designed for safe interaction around people. The New York company targets research, education, hospitality and service environments with a lightweight, expressive robot that supports movement, perception, social behavior and developer experimentation.

Market context

Fauna matters because it frames humanoids around approachable, compliant interaction in shared spaces rather than only industrial strength or warehouse labor. Sprout / TRAJECTORY Humanoid robotics platform (Sprout) with developer-first positioning; reported Kleiner Perkins and Lux Capital backing before reported Amazon acquisition.

• Capability: ~42-inch compliant humanoid
• Capability: modular, safety-first hardware that yields to external forces
• Capability: NVIDIA Jetson Orin onboard
• Capability: SDK/API/autonomy stack for embodied AI development
• Strategic position: Builders · Humanoid (developer / human-environment platform) Not positioned as a heavy industrial humanoid—emphasis on safe co-presence, research, and applications in human-scale spaces rather than m…

Products

• Sprout

Facts

• Website: https://faunarobotics.com/
• HQ: New York, New York, United States
• Segment: Humanoid
• Known funding rounds: 1

Funding

• 2025-04-07 - Funding round - $30M - Fauna Robotics raises $30M in funding backed by Kleiner Perkins, Quiet Capital, and Lux Capital - source: x.com

Investors

• Kleiner Perkins - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-04-07
• Lux Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-04-07
• Quiet Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-04-07

Consumer-facing humanoid robot company

Fauna Robotics developed Sprout, a small social humanoid robot and developer platform for home, education and research environments before joining Amazon.

• Target environment: Homes, schools, research labs, social spaces and consumer-facing robotics experiments.
• Deployment model: Humanoid developer platform and robot hardware development inside Amazon following acquisition.
• Customer context: Research labs, education users, corporate robotics teams and Amazon consumer-robotics programs.
• Workflow context: Social interaction, robotics development, human-facing robot behavior, teleoperation, education and consumer robotics experimentation.
• Commercial maturity: Early-stage humanoid company acquired by Amazon shortly after introducing Sprout.
• Market position: Consumer-oriented humanoid developer now connected to Amazon's broader robotics and customer-experience efforts.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on useful behavior, safety, affordability, developer adoption, Amazon integration and moving beyond research or novelty use.
• Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes consumer humanoids, social robots, home robotics, education robotics and developer-platform humanoids.
• Source confidence: medium

Events

• 2026-03-24 - Acquisition - Amazon acquires humanoid developer Fauna Robotics - • Amazon acquired Fauna Robotics, a New York-based startup known for its humanoid robot, Sprout.
• 2026-01-30 - Product Launch - Fauna Robotics launches Sprout Creator Edition, a developer-ready humanoid platform - Fauna Robotics launches Sprout Creator Edition, shipping today as a developer-ready humanoid platform d…
• 2025-04-07 - Funding - Fauna Robotics raises $30M in funding backed by Kleiner Perkins, Quiet Capital, and Lux Capital - Fauna Robotics raises $30M in funding round

Team

• Lerrel Pinto - Founder - Historical founder row connects Fauna Robotics and Sprout to the robot-learning research base that later became part of Amazon's robotics work.
• Rob Cochran - Co-founder and CEO - Cochran is the founder/operator leading Fauna Robotics' Sprout developer-platform humanoid.
• Josh Merel - Co-founder and CTO

Relationships

• Amazon - Acquired - Amazon acquired Fauna Robotics (humanoid developer; Sprout platform).
• Amazon - Acquisition - Amazon acquires humanoid developer Fauna Robotics

Context tags

• Humanoid robot OEM - Stack Layer
• Humanoid development labs - Customer Environment
• Compliant humanoid research platform - Peer Group
• Safe compliant humanoid development - Workflow

Record / Articles

• 2026-03-24 - Amazon acquires Fauna Robotics, maker of the Sprout humanoid platform - Founded in 2024 by a former CTRL-Labs product lead and a Google DeepMind researcher, Fauna shipped its first product in January 2026 a…
• 2026-03-23 - AMAZON’S ROBOTICS PUSH IS BROADENING - Recent moves across delivery, warehouse automation, humanoids, and research suggest Amazon is widening its robotics exposure rather than making one concentrated bet. -…