Amazon acquired New York-based Fauna Robotics, founded in 2024 by former Meta and Google engineers, bringing 50 employees and their $50,000 Sprout robot to the company. Sprout is a 3.5-foot tall, 50-pound bipedal humanoid powered by NVIDIA Jetson Orin that can handle voice interaction, object manipulation, and memory formation, with early customers including Disney and Boston Dynamics. The acquisition positions Amazon to compete directly with Tesla's Optimus and Figure AI in the consumer humanoid market. This deal could accelerate the path from expensive research platforms to affordable household robots by leveraging Amazon's supply chain and consumer reach.