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Last verified 2026-08-15
Index / Fauna Sprout
T4 PAPER BIPEDAL

Fauna SproutHumanoid robot reality check: tier, verified deployments, price and evidence ledger

Fauna Robotics

Tier 4, Paper. Announced, but no public hardware evidence.
Dated events per month
JAN 2026 · 1 events
Sep 2025Aug 2026
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No published priceverified pricechecked against maker channels
0deployment eventscustomer or independent source
0pilot eventsnamed-customer trials
3claim-only eventsthe maker's word, never moves a tier
Shape of the record

3 events, and what kind of thing each one was.

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3
CLAIMthe maker's word, never moves a tier
1independentarms-length press and analysts
0customer-sidethe customer itself says so
2vendorthe maker or its PR channels

The Fauna Sprout evidence ledger: every line has a date and a source.

3 arms-length events on file for the Fauna Sprout, newest first. Claims are listed and labeled; they never lift the tier.

Spec sheet · maker's datasheet

Height
107 cm
Weight
22.7 kg
Degrees of freedom
29 (including active eyebrows)
Battery life
3 to 3.5 h (swappable)
Compute
NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin (64 GB)
Sensing
ZED 2i stereo camera, 4x ToF, 4x mic array, IMU

All values as published by the maker: Fauna Robotics Sprout launch page, retrieved 2026-07-30. Specs describe design intent; they never stand in for evidence.

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Evidence ledger · 3 events
3 of 3 events
  • CLAIMAmazon acquired Fauna Robotics for undisclosed terms. therobotreport.com · independent
  • CLAIMFauna Robotics, founded 2024 in New York by Rob Cochran and ex-DeepMind scientist Josh Merel (both formerly of CTRL-labs, sold to Facebook in 2019), launched Sprout Creator ... faunarobotics.com · vendor
  • CLAIMFauna announced a 30 million USD raise backed by Kleiner Perkins, Quiet Capital and Lux Capital, on top of an SEC Form D from February 2025 reported at about 16.6 million USD sold. faunarobotics.com (X announcement) · vendor

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