Facts

• Company: Fauna Robotics
• Product type: Humanoid Platform
• Status: commercial
• Capability focus: Generalist
• Website: https://faunarobotics.com/product

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Tags
• Record / Articles
• Sources

Summary

Sprout is Fauna Robotics soft humanoid developer platform for safe interaction around people. It supports autonomy, movement, perception and social behaviors out of the box, giving researchers and companies an approachable robot for human-facing experiments.

Overview

Sprout is Fauna Robotics soft humanoid developer platform for safe interaction around people. It supports autonomy, movement, perception and social behaviors out of the box, giving researchers and companies an approachable robot for human-facing experiments.

Market context

Sprout is Fauna Robotics' lightweight humanoid robot designed for safe, expressive work in human environments.

• Target environment: Research labs, education, hospitality, service settings and shared indoor human spaces.
• Workflow context: Human-robot interaction, navigation, manipulation, teleoperation, expressive behaviour and embodied AI development.
• Deployment model: Developer-ready humanoid platform for research, interaction and application prototyping.
• Commercial maturity: Public research and developer platform introduced in 2026 with reported early customer interest.
• Adoption constraints: Requires application development, safe indoor operation, teleoperation workflows and task-specific software maturity.
• Market position: Approachable humanoid platform focused on social interaction, safety and developer accessibility.
• Adjacent products: Lightweight humanoid for social interaction, research and service-environment prototyping.

Audience

Developers

Workflow

Human-robot interaction, navigation, manipulation, teleoperation, expressive behaviour and embodied AI development.

Capability

generalist

Deployment environment

Research labs, education, hospitality, service settings and shared indoor human spaces.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Developers
• Workflow: Human-robot interaction, navigation, manipulation, teleoperation, expressive behaviour and embodied AI development.
• Capability: generalist
• Deployment environment: Research labs, education, hospitality, service settings and shared indoor human spaces.

Specifications

• Height: 107 cm
• Weight: 22.7 kg
• Dof: 29
• Exterior: Soft to the touch
• Neck Dof: 2 DoF
• Arm Dof: 6
• Manipulation: Robust and durable 1-DoF grippers with rubberized interior
• Interaction Model: Articulated eyebrows, full-color 360 degree facial LED array, directional microphone array, and dual high-fidelity speakers
• Sensors Summary: Directional microphone array plus sensing and perception stack for human spaces
• Operational Environment: Shared human spaces

Tags

• Peer Group: Developer humanoid platform
• Workflow: Robot learning data
• Capability: Mobile manipulation
• Deployment Environment: Research lab
• Stack Layer: Finished robot platform
• Commercial Stage: Developer platform

Record / Articles

• 2026-03-24 - Article - Amazon acquires Fauna Robotics, maker of the Sprout humanoid platform