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Amazon now owns a humanoid robot company.
Roughly 50 staffers at Fauna — the startup behind the three-and-a-half foot tall bipedal machine called Sprout — will now be joining the e-commerce giant. While Bloomberg reports that Amazon isn’t planning to deploy the robot in its operations, leaked documents have already revealed Amazon’s goal to replace 600,000 future workers with automation.
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