Sprout Creator Edition Context

Market context

Sprout is Fauna Robotics' lightweight humanoid robot designed for safe, expressive work in human environments.

  • Target environment: Research labs, education, hospitality, service settings and shared indoor human spaces.
  • Workflow context: Human-robot interaction, navigation, manipulation, teleoperation, expressive behaviour and embodied AI development.
  • Deployment model: Developer-ready humanoid platform for research, interaction and application prototyping.
  • Commercial maturity: Public research and developer platform introduced in 2026 with reported early customer interest.
  • Adoption constraints: Requires application development, safe indoor operation, teleoperation workflows and task-specific software maturity.
  • Market position: Approachable humanoid platform focused on social interaction, safety and developer accessibility.
  • Adjacent products: Lightweight humanoid for social interaction, research and service-environment prototyping.

Specifications

  • Degrees of freedom: 29 including2articulatedeyebrows
  • Exterior: Soft to the touch
  • Neck Dof: 2 DoF
  • Arm Dof: 6
  • Manipulation: Robust and durable 1-DoF grippers with rubberized interior
  • Interaction Model: Articulated eyebrows, full-color 360 degree facial LED array, directional microphone array, and dual high-fidelity speakers
  • Height: 107 cm
  • Weight: 22.7 kg
  • Sensors Summary: ZED2i stereoRGB-D;4VL53L8CXToFsensors;9-axisIMU;4MEMSmicrophones
  • Compute Model: Jetson AGX Orin64GB;1TB NVMe SSD
  • Runtime: 3–3.5 h; duration not specified for each battery option
  • Battery Capacity Ah: 5Ah standard;10Ah extended-run option
  • Battery Voltage Nominal: 46.8V nominal DC
  • Leg Dof Per Leg: 5 per leg
  • Arm Reach Cm: 48cm arm length
  • Software: Fauna SDK;Python/C++;Foxglove;IsaacSim,Gazebo andMuJoCo compatibility
  • Ip Rating: IP20;indoor operation
  • Per Arm Payload Kg: Theoretical per-arm ratings; not necessarily supported by current teleoperation controller

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