Amazon builds a new home robot team around Fauna's Sprout humanoid
CNBC found a new Personal Robotics Group hiring for a robot to work around families, built around the Fauna team Amazon bought in March.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: www.cnbc.com
Why it matters
Astro showed Amazon could build a home robot without finding a daily job for it. Buying Fauna and hiring around Sprout tests whether safer humanoid hardware, modern perception and outside developers can find that job before Tesla and other humanoid makers define the category.
Amazon has assembled a new home robot team and is hiring for a "new-to-world robot product," CNBC reported on November 8th. The job posts describe a robot built for changing home environments and autonomous operation around family members, giving Amazon a second attempt at a category where its Astro device reached only a few thousand customers.…
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