Sprout Creator Edition Context

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.

Engineering teams

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

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

Degrees of freedom: 29
Exterior: Soft to the touch
Neck Dof: 2
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
Height: 107 cm
Weight: 22.7 kg