US EditionNew York Startup Builds Foam-Covered Humanoid Inspired by WALL-E, Not Terminator
Sprout is priced at $50,000 and designed as a developer-friendly robot for homes and schools to encourage new applications using AI and advanced robotics.
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New York startup builds foam-covered humanoid inspired by WALL-E, not Terminator
Founded in stealth in New York's Flatiron District, Fauna Robotics spent two years building Sprout as a different kind of platform – one that treats robots not as laborers but as companions and collaborators. Its debut this week marks the company's attempt to define a new category of "approachable" humanoids:...Read Entire Article
Not ready for robots in homes? The maker of a friendly new humanoid thinks it might change your mind
As the new robot called Sprout walks around a Manhattan office, nodding its rectangular head, lifting its windshield wiper-like “eyebrows” and offering to shake your hand with its…
The humanoid robot Sprout is marketed as a development platform for universities, schools and developers. It should also be able to help in the household.
Introducing Sprout, a new humanoid development platform
In the high-stakes artificial intelligence race, New York-based Fauna Robotics is betting that the path to general intelligence runs through the physical world. Led by founders Rob Cochran and Josh Merel, the startup is developing a specialized hardware and AI platform to move robots out of factories and into the unstructured environments of everyday life. By engineering safe, lightweight, and inexpensive machines, Fauna said it aims to create a…
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