Fauna Robotics · research humanoid
Sprout
A small, soft-covered biped meant to work safely around people, with an expressive head (motorised eyebrows and an LED face) and grippers. It shipped first as a Creator Edition for developers and researchers.
- Price
- $50,000Cheaper than 26%
- Height
- 107 cmTaller than 10%
- Weight
- 22.7 kgHeavier than 11%
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
Sprout is on the market today.
Real-world use
Early users named at launch in January 2026 include NYU, UC San Diego, Disney and Boston Dynamics.
How it stacks up
Against other humanoids that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
Sprout is taller than 10% of the 305 other humanoids that publish a height. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Sprout is heavier than 11% of the 277 other humanoids that publish a weight. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Sprout has more joints than 42% of the 236 other humanoids that publish a joints. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Sprout costs less than 26% of the 85 other humanoids that publish a price. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: speed, payload, battery.
What it has been shown doing
We checked public videos and press for Sprout and found no clear demo of the skills we track yet.
Public attention
How much public attention Sprout gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 3 news stories from reputable press listed on this page
Measures how much people read and write about a robot, not how good it is. Measured 2026-10-14; same method for every robot. How it is measured
What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Walks on legs · 29 joints
- Chip
- Jetson AGX Orin (NVIDIA)Jetson AGX Orin 64 GB.
- Actuators & motors
- 29 DoF with compliant, torque-limited motor control that yields to outside forces.
- Hands
- Grippers included; motorised eyebrows and a 100-pixel LED face for expression.
- Sensors & vision
- ZED 2i stereo depth camera, four time-of-flight sensors, four-microphone array; onboard safety sensing.
- Compute
- NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin 64GB.
- Battery & power
- Included; capacity not published.
- Materials & build
- 107 cm, 22.7 kg; soft foam-like exterior and padded panels with few pinch points.
- AI & software
- Unified stack for whole-body control, manipulation and navigation with swappable models; pre-trained walking, kneeling, crawling and dancing; VR teleoperation with Meta Quest 3 for data collection.
Named suppliers:NVIDIAStereolabs
From the maker
Sprout is the only humanoid from Fauna Robotics in the atlas.
Watch Sprout
Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- $50,000Creator Edition about US$50,000 (battery, grippers and software included)
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Sold or delivered
- Creator Edition shipping since Jan 2026 at about US$50,000
- Where it is sold or used
- Assembled in the USA (New York)
- Customers and pilots
- NYU, UC San Diego, Disney, Boston Dynamics
Where it is sold and supported
What Fauna Robotics publishes about where you can get Sprout and who looks after it.
- How to get it
- Online Request Robot form on the maker's site; the page says units are shipping
From faunarobotics.com, checked October 12, 2026. The maker states the robot is designed in New York City and assembled in America; it lists no shipping regions, warranty or support terms. Simbeing does not sell robots: buy from the maker's own page.
For builders
Can you program Sprout? What Fauna Robotics publishes.
The maker gives an SDK to customers or partners it approves. No public SDK documentation, GitHub page or developer price found on the maker's pages when checked.
- How
- The maker says the robot comes with full SDK access and core APIs on a modular software stack
From faunarobotics.com, checked October 12, 2026. This describes what the maker publishes, not what the robot can do.
News
The latest 3, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- Amazon acquires Fauna Robotics
heise reports Amazon bought Fauna for an undisclosed sum, folding its ~50 staff into its Personal Robotics Group.
heise online - Boston Dynamics already using Sprout
Mike Kalil reports Sprout starts at $50,000 and is built in the US.
Mike Kalil - Fauna exits stealth with Sprout
Humanoids Daily covers the 107 cm, 22.7 kg soft biped shipping as a Creator Edition.
Humanoids Daily
Side by side with its peers
Picked by the same rules for every humanoid: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. How we choose
| Measure | SproutFauna Robotics | No public photo yetWe only show photos we're allowed to useLumiLightberrySame jobs: entertainment, retail · Both walk · Both on sale or in pilots · Similar size · Similar price |  Tiangong OmniBeijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center (X-Humanoid)Same jobs: home, entertainment · Both walk · Both on sale or in pilots · Similar size |  T1Booster RoboticsSame job: entertainment · Both walk · Both on sale or in pilots · Similar size · Similar price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2026-01-27 | 2026-08-29 | 2026-08-19 | 2024 |
| Status | Commercial | Commercial | Commercial | Commercial |
| Height | 107 cm | 130 cm | 135 cm | 118 cm |
| Weight | 22.7 kg | 40 kg | 39.5 kg | 30 kg |
| Joints | 29 | 34 | 31 | 23 |
| Speed | — | — | — | — |
| Payload | — | — | — | — |
| Battery | — | 3.5 h | — | 2 h |
| Price | $50,000 | $39,990 | — | $44,700 |
Sources
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