Amazon builds Personal Robotics Group around Fauna's humanoid Sprout for home robots
CyberRobooo · x · 2026-11-09
Per CNBC, Amazon's new Personal Robotics Group is being built around Fauna Robotics, maker of the Sprout humanoid, combining Fauna's team with much of the talent behind the original Astro project.
- It also draws on Lab126 (the consumer hardware R&D unit behind Kindle and Echo) and robotics research talent from MIT
- Amazon's Frontier AI & Robotics (FAR) team is developing foundation models and full-stack robotic systems spanning locomotion, dexterous manipulation, multimodal learning and sim-to-real transfer, currently focused on warehouse deployment
- The pieces: physical AI from FAR, humanoid hardware from Fauna, and home navigation/HRI experience from Astro
- Amazon is hiring UX designers and field support engineers, signaling a product focus; the company already runs over 1 million robots across its fulfillment network
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