This soft humanoid robot is designed to be ‘physically safe and socially approachable’

Sprout stands conscionable 3.5-feet gangly and is airy capable for 1 idiosyncratic to transportation around. | Screenshot: YouTube

A startup called Fauna Robotics has revealed a caller humanoid robot called Sprout it's been processing implicit the past 2 years. Standing astir 3.5-feet tall, Sprout's design, featuring a brushed padded exterior, a wide head, and expressive mechanical eyebrows, was inspired by immoderate of subject fiction's friendlier robots similar Baymax and Rosie Jetson, the startup's co-founder and CEO, Rob Cochran, told the Associated Press.

With articulated limbs and grippers for hands, Sprout looks acceptable to tackle dishes, tidy up astir the home, oregon articulation a mill assembly enactment alongside humanoid robots similar Tesla's Optimus and Boston Dynamics' Atlas. But that's …

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