Fauna Robotics has launched its debut robot Sprout, a friendly and capable humanoid robot platform designed to operate safely in shared human spaces.
Reportedly, moving beyond the closed industrial systems of the past, Sprout offers developers, researchers, and creators a platform to build the embodied intelligence applications.
Sprout is a lightweight, soft-bodied design standing 1.07 meters (3.5 feet) tall and weighing just 22.7 kg (50 lbs).
The robot features a soft exterior with minimised pinch points, making it easy and comfortable to handle., this is in addition to low kinetic energy and a low center of gravity maximize safety while maintaining a wide range of motion.
The robot is designed for compliant motor control policies, enabling it to yield to external forces rather than fighting them, utilising software-level limits on motor torques.
Fauna is focusing on deploying approachable, lightweight robots in human-centric spaces that are safe to be around anyone from adults to children to pets.
Fauna Robotics CTO and co-founder, Josh Merel, said: “We built the robot we believe the robotics community has actually wanted, shaped by years of working closely with researchers and developers as the field of AI-driven robotics has matured.
“Our goal is to make humanoid robotics genuinely accessible, pairing thoughtfully designed hardware with a proper SDK and set of well tuned robot services.
“We’re excited to see a much broader community of creators, not just experts, build frontier-level robotics applications.”
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