Fauna Robotics + Amazon: Bringing intelligent robots into every home

A huge congratulations to the entire Fauna Robotics team on their acquisition by Amazon.

This small, but mighty team set out to build something that sounds simple but is genuinely hard: robots that can live and work alongside people in the real world. Not in factories or warehouses, but in homes, offices, and the everyday spaces where life actually happens. 

From the beginning, it was clear that Rob, Josh, and the team were approaching this problem differently. What they built wasn’t just an impressive humanoid robot. It was an early glimpse of what the future of human-robot interaction could look like.

I first met Rob and Josh when they were building CTRL-Labs and when they started to work on Fauna, it was an immediate yes for me. They had a vision that I found immediately compelling: the convergence of better motor control, perception, and foundation models had finally made it possible to build robots people would genuinely want to be around. Robots that are safe, warm, and actually useful in the messy, unpredictable environments where we spend our lives.

What always impressed me about this team was how they came at the problem from first principles. Rob had spent his career shipping products at scale across neural interfaces, autonomous vehicles, and large-scale AI systems. Josh came from the frontier of legged robotics research at DeepMind and Meta, where he spent years solving the exact locomotion and motor control problems Fauna needed to crack. Together they built a world-class team drawn from DeepMind, Meta, Harvard, and beyond, all united by a shared belief that empathy and safety aren’t constraints on great robotics. They’re the whole point.

Today, Fauna’s platform brings together bipedal locomotion, natural language understanding, a developer SDK, and a growing app ecosystem, all designed from the ground up for human environments. The foundation they’ve built could power one of the most significant computing platforms of the next decade.

This moment is a testament to the team’s vision, their conviction, and their willingness to go after a problem that most people thought was still years away. We’re proud to have been part of the Fauna journey since 2025, and can’t wait to see what you build at Amazon next.