Amazon Is Buying a Robot Company That Makes Humanoid Robots

Amazon is Buying a Robot Company That Makes Humanoid Robots

Amazon has acquired Fauna Robotics, a New York-based humanoid robot startup, marking the e-commerce and cloud computing giant’s latest and most ambitious move yet into the rapidly expanding consumer robotics space, according to Bloomberg. The deal, which closed last week according to people familiar with the matter who requested anonymity to discuss a private transaction, […] The post Amazon is Buying a Robot Company That Makes Humanoid Robots a…

Amazon buys Fauna Robotics, maker of the Sprout humanoid robot that can dance and pick up toys

Amazon has acquired Fauna Robotics, just under two months after the startup introduced a humanoid robot called Sprout designed to be a friendly addition to social spaces like homes and schools. 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 3.5-foot-tall, rectangular-headed Sprout on board adds a robot that’s more about fun interactio…