We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Decades ago, the common hope was that, by the year 2000, we would be living in a full-on science-fiction utopia, with intelligent robots ...

Amazon has acquired Fauna Robotics, a startup founded in 2024 that released a children-sized humanoid robot called Sprout in January. Humanoid robots are built to look and move like the human body, ...

Amazon has confirmed that it has acquired Fauna Robotics, a two-year-old startup founded by former Meta and Google engineers who are developing kid-size humanoid robots for the home. The acquisition ...