No. 57 · published Aug 18, 2026
Fauna Robotics
Fauna Robotics makes Sprout, a 42-inch humanoid robot sold to developers, researchers and companies that want a machine safe enough to walk around people without a cage. Amazon acquired the New York startup in March 2026, two months after Sprout came out of stealth.
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A cream page sets centred display type at manifesto scale — “Capable, safe, fun. Robots for everyone.” — then hands the argument to photography: Sprout walking past occupied desks, standing on a rooftop under the Empire State Building, never posed on a white studio sweep. Everything is rounded, from the pill navigation to the image corners, and the palette lifts the robot’s own chartreuse and sets it against mustard, brick and sky blue across a four-part Venn of markets. The closing band of robots assembled from wooden-toy shapes argues for approachability more efficiently than any spec table could.
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