Amazon is building a new home robot team after Astro, CNBC finds

Amazon has assembled a new team working on a "new-to-world robot product," according to a CNBC analysis of job posts. One removed listing described a product able to navigate "dynamic home environments" and operate autonomously "alongside family members."

Earlier this year Amazon redeployed much of the team behind its Astro robot to the project, CNBC reports, citing LinkedIn profiles. In March it acquired New York-based Fauna Robotics, maker of the 3.5-foot humanoid Sprout, which joined a new division called the Personal Robotics Group. An October posting seeks a designer to "define what it feels like to live with a Fauna robot."

Amazon spokesperson Brad Glasser told CNBC the company bought Fauna because it is "committed to tackling the challenges that can unlock the personal robotics category." It remains unclear what kind of robot the group is building.

Astro, the $1,450 home robot Amazon unveiled in 2021, never left its invite-only stage and shipped to just a few thousand customers. A business version launched in 2023 was retired less than a year later.