AMAZON ACQUIRES ‘APPROACHABLE' HUMANOID MAKER FAUNA ROBOTICS

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Amazon has acquired Fauna Robotics, a startup that builds 'approachable' humanoid robots. Fauna was founded in 2024 by former Meta and Google engineers. It launched a bipedal robot earlier this year called Sprout and had signed up Disney and Boston Dynamics as early customers. The purchase of Fauna puts Amazon into the increasingly crowded humanoid robot market.