Fauna Robotics
About
About Fauna Robotics
Fauna Robotics develops Sprout, a lightweight humanoid platform for developers, researchers and enterprises. The robot combines locomotion, manipulation, onboard compute, perception and social behaviours in a safety-oriented system intended for operation around people.
Fauna launched the Sprout Creator Edition in January 2026 and presents the platform as shipping. SDK access and modular software support application development across research and service environments.
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Funding
- 2025-04-07 - Fauna Robotics discloses $30 million raised to date
Fauna Robotics said it had raised $30 million to build robots for human spaces and named Kleiner Perkins, Quiet Capital and Lux Capital as backers. The disclosure did not identify one new $30 million round. - source: linkedin.com
Investors
- Kleiner Perkins - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-04-07
- Lux Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-04-07
- Quiet Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-04-07
Team
- Rob Cochran - Co-founder and CEO - Leads Fauna Robotics and its Sprout humanoid platform, with an emphasis on safe deployment in shared human spaces.
- Josh Merel - Co-founder and CTO - Leads technical development of the Sprout humanoid platform and its developer-facing software stack.
- Lerrel Pinto - Co-founder - Historical co-founder whose robot-learning work contributed to Fauna Robotics' early technical foundation.
Timeline
Events
- 2026-03-24 - Acquisition - Amazon acquires humanoid developer Fauna Robotics
Fauna joined Amazon and now operates as Fauna Robotics, an Amazon company. Sprout Creator Edition remains available to new customers, with support continuing for existing users.
Source - 2026-01-27 - Product Launch - Fauna Robotics launches Sprout Creator Edition
Sprout is 1.07 meters tall and 22.7 kilograms, with a soft exterior, compliant motor-control policies and integrated time-of-flight sensing. Its SDK includes trained walking, kneeling, crawling and sitting policies, mapping and localization, and full-body teleoperation with integrated grippers.
Source - 2025-04-07 - Funding - Fauna Robotics discloses $30 million raised to date
Backers included Kleiner Perkins, Quiet Capital and Lux Capital. The capital supports robots intended to live, work and play alongside people.
Source
Relations
Relationships
- Amazon
Acquired Company - Amazon acquired Fauna Robotics, which continues operating as Fauna Robotics, an Amazon company, while selling and supporting Sprout Creator Edition.
Context
Market context
Sprout
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Context tags
- Humanoid robot OEM - Stack Layer
- Humanoid development labs - Customer Environment
- Compliant humanoid research platform - Peer Group
- Safe compliant humanoid development - Workflow