Fauna Reptile Marketplace
Hi all — I'm Kel, VP of Platform at Fauna Robotics. We're coming out of stealth and shipping Sprout (Creator Edition) today: a developer-ready humanoid robot built to be safe, approachable, and capable. We set out to build Sprout because we believe robots belong around people. Too many humanoids still feel like heavy machinery that doesn't belong in human spaces, and even the “friendlier” ones force teams to spend their time rebuilding baseline hardware and software instead of real applications. Sprout is different: lightweight and soft-bodied (1.07m / 22.7kg), with compliant control +…
Fauna Reptile Marketplace launched on August 1, 2014 with 62 votes, #920 of 2,208 launches that month. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.
In plain words
Sprout is a lightweight humanoid robot from Fauna Robotics designed for developers to build applications rather than rebuild hardware. Standing 1.07 meters tall and weighing 22.7 kilograms, it features soft-bodied construction, compliant control, and active safety sensing. The Creator Edition comes with a fully featured SDK and core capabilities ready for human-robot interaction work. It targets developers and researchers seeking an approachable, safe robot platform for natural interaction applications.
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From the sources
Fauna Robotics builds capable, safe, and fun robots for everyone. Meet Sprout, a humanoid platform for developers, enterprises, and researchers—shipping today.
Build and test your own applications on easy-to-use hardware with full SDK access. Create next-generation AI applications that solve real business problems and deploy safely in human environments. Study locomotion, manipulation, autonomy, and human-robot interaction on a versatile humanoid platform. Designed for safer human interaction with lightweight materials, a soft exterior, minimized pinch points, onboard safety sensing, and compliant motor control that yields to external forces. Welcome guests, showcase products, and guide shoppers in stores, lobbies, and pop-ups. With custom voices and gestures, Sprout creates attention-grabbing, shareable experiences at scale. Create experiences in…from faunarobotics.com
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hi all — I'm Kel, VP of Platform at Fauna Robotics. We're coming out of stealth and shipping Sprout (Creator Edition) today: a developer-ready humanoid robot built to be safe, approachable, and capable. We set out to build Sprout because we believe robots belong around people. Too many humanoids still feel like heavy…
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