Robotics · 9 November 2026 · 3 min read
Amazon is hiring for a home robot. The advert is not the machine
CNBC reported on 8 November, from job posts, that Amazon has a Personal Robotics Group and is hiring for what one listing called a “new-to-world robot product.” The group sits on Fauna, bought in March, whose Sprout is a humanoid of 3.5 feet. Astro, at $1,450 in 2021, never left its trial.
CNBC reported on 8 November that Amazon is hiring for a home robot. The reporting is a reading of job advertisements. One listing, since taken down, asked for an engineer on a “new-to-world robot product” that could move through “dynamic home environments” and run beside the people who live there. Another, published in October, asks a designer to define what it feels like to live with a Fauna robot. A vacancy is a vacancy. It is not a specification, and it is not a date.
The machine already in the building is not new. In March Amazon bought Fauna Robotics and put it in a division called the Personal Robotics Group. Fauna’s Sprout is a humanoid the coverage puts at 3.5 feet, sold so far to developers and to researchers. Amazon’s spokesman, Brad Glasser, told CNBC the company bought Fauna because it is committed to tackling the problems that would open a personal-robotics category. Committed is not launched. The last try was Astro, offered in 2021 at $1,450, which CNBC says never left its invite-only trial. A second attempt announced by a job advert is a second attempt. It is not a robot in a house.