Amazon confirmed it has acquired Fauna Robotics, a startup building humanoid robots. Fauna's first product, called Sprout, is a $50,000 bipedal robot that's 3 feet, 6 inches tall and designed to be ...

The mammoth online retailer is no stranger to automation, laying off workers as it pursues artificial intelligence “in virtually every corner of the company,” as CEO Andy Jassy put it. Amazon told The ...

CEO Andy Jassy used Wednesday's earnings call to make clear that despite massive investments in warehouse automation, Amazon ...

Amazon's newest generation of warehouse robots is no longer a side experiment tucked into a few pilot facilities. The company now relies on automated systems across dozens of fulfillment and sortation ...

FILE - While being operated remotely, Fauna Robotics' new robot named Sprout shows off its dexterity in New York, Jan. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File) NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon has acquired Fauna ...

Tye Brady, chief technologist for Amazon Robotics, introduces “Project Eluna,” an AI model that assists operations teams, during Amazon’s Delivering the Future event in Milpitas, Calif. (GeekWire ...

Amazon believes it can use robots to avoid adding more than half a million jobs in the next eight years, The New York Times reports. NPR's A Martinez speaks to Times reporter Karen Weise. Amazon's ...

Amazon recently announced that it has purchased Fauna -- a maker of humanoid robots. Fauna's Sprout robot won't be taking over duties at Amazon's factories any time soon, but it will serve other ...

NEW YORK – Amazon has acquired Fauna Robotics, just under two months after the startup introduced a humanoid robot called Sprout designed to be a friendly addition to social spaces like homes and ...