The verified answer
As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies Fauna Robotics: 1 model, $30.0M raised. 3 sources back the record.
CategoryHumanoids
Overview
Fauna Robotics was a New York-based humanoid robot developer that built Sprout, a compact, safety-first humanoid platform for developers and researchers. Founded in 2024 by ex-CTRL-labs and Google DeepMind alumni, the company raised a 30M USD Seed round from Kleiner Perkins, Lux Capital, and Quiet Capital. Amazon acquired Fauna Robotics in March 2026, folding the team into its Personal Robotics Group.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Valuation of record
DEPLOY VERIFIEDPriced roundSeed post-money
Key facts
CEO
CTO
Acquired by Amazon
Sprout humanoid platform
Developer-facing robotics
Data & sources
News coverage
1
Web sources
2
3 sources backing this record.View all →
Models (1)
View all models →Partnerships
Every company Fauna Robotics has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1Amazon1× joint16 total
Most recent
- Amazon acquires Fauna Robotics2026-03-24with Amazonoperating
Fauna Robotics on the deployment map
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Relationships
Current leadership (2)
- Rob Cochran CEO & Co-founderreported, not verified
- Josh Merel CTO & Co-founderreported, not verified
Founders (2)
- Rob Cochrancofounder
previously at Meta
- Josh Merelcofounder
Safety record
No incidents on record for Fauna Robotics.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
Fauna Robotics in third-party press
Peers
101 peers across 1 segment. Every Fauna Robotics competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
humanoid(101)
68 companies in this segment · competitive (HHI 574.5255335898561) · leader Figure AI at 1207%
- 1X Technologiesdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Sundaydirect competitor(inferred)strong
- UBTech Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Zeroth Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- 1X Technologiesdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- AI2 Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
Financial state
- Total funding
- $30.0M
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- acquired
- Counterparty risk class
- low
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
1 total · 1 operating · 1 ended
Every company Fauna Robotics has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- Amazon acquires Fauna Robotics2026-03-24with Amazonoperating
Most-frequent partners
- 1Amazon1× joint16 total
Funding rounds (1)
- Seed2025-04-08
$30M(reported) · $120M post
Investors: Kleiner Perkins, Lux Capital, Quiet Capital
Acquisitions (1)
- acquired by Amazonfull acquisition2026-01-15
Timeline
Every recorded move in Fauna Robotics’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
PartnershipAmazon acquires Fauna Robotics
2026-03-24Amazon acquired Fauna Robotics a New York-based humanoid robot developer known for its Sprout bipedal robot designed for homes schools and entertainment. Faunas 50-person team joins Amazon to advance humanoid robotics initiatives.
Acquired byAcquired by Amazon
2026-01-15Acquired by Amazon (full_acquisition)
Funding roundSeed funding round
2025-04-08Seed raising $30000000
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJul 4, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (3)
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Methodology: Verified · 3 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-09-29
Verification posture
Verified
Medium confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-09-29
Sources by quality tier
- 2
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
- 1
- secondary-established-publication
- Established publication
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Fauna Robotics.Peer companies
- Unitree Robotics10 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Dobot6 models
- AgiBot5 models
- AheadForm5 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Fauna Robotics from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
What Amazon saw in Fauna Robotics' humanoid strategy
Analysis of Amazon's acquisition of Fauna as a platform move, examining Sprout's developer-facing architecture, constrained learned control, and VR teleoperation pipeline.
Amazon acquires humanoid developer Fauna Robotics
Amazon acquired Fauna Robotics, maker of the Sprout humanoid developer platform, with ~50 employees joining Amazon's Personal Robotics Group.
Amazon buys Fauna Robotics, maker of the Sprout humanoid robot
Amazon acquired Fauna Robotics less than two months after Sprout's public debut; financial terms not disclosed.
Amazon acquires approachable humanoid maker Fauna Robotics
Amazon acquired Fauna Robotics a New York-based startup building approachable soft-touch humanoid robots. Faunas first product Sprout is a 50000 dollar bipedal robot that can…
Not ready for robots in homes? The maker of a friendly new humanoid thinks it might change your mind
AP profile of Fauna Robotics and Sprout, a 3.5-foot humanoid robot designed for homes, schools, and social spaces, with early customers including Disney and Boston Dynamics.
Humanoid robots are getting smaller, safer and closer
Fox News coverage of Sprout's debut as a small, safety-focused humanoid designed for human spaces, with soft exterior and minimized pinch points.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/fauna-robotics.md
- RSS feed: /companies/fauna-robotics/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/63f8f089-6348-481c-b733-3b326db3a2b5
- Revision history: /companies/fauna-robotics/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Unitree Robotics10 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Dobot6 models
- AgiBot5 models
- AheadForm5 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
Video
Meet Sprout. Sprout is a new kind of robotics platform, designed to move out of the lab and into the real world, closer to the people who will shape what robot
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What does it feel like to work with a humanoid robot in real environments? Sprout is built to support long sessions of experimentation, interaction, and iterat
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Sprout, a 3 1/2-foot-tall humanoid from Fauna Robotics, debuts with a soft foam body, expressive moves and a friendly vibe. Built for human spaces, it’s aimed a
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Heat Index
Category contender77/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Fauna Robotics draws attention at the 39th percentile but verifies reality at the insufficient-data level among humanoids.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public visibility and press coverage relative to peers.
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 4, 2026