NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon has acquired Fauna Robotics, just under two months after the startup introduced a humanoid robot called Sprout designed to be a friendly addition to social spaces like homes and schools.

The e-commerce giant is already a robotics powerhouse, having boasted of deploying more than 1 million robots across its warehouse operations, but bringing the 3.5-foot-tall, rectangular-headed Sprout on board adds a robot that's more about fun interactions than heavy lifting.

Recently I had written an article about what I coined as the “Corruption of Lawfulness,” (I do not know if this is termed something else in some philosophical school-of-thought, made up prior by someone else quicker than I). This idea asserts (in brief) that: “smart criminals who have found ways to abuse the system of laws and not get caught, will want to upkeep the same system of laws as the wealthy elite.

Many words have entirely lost their impact. In the same way that Hollywood has desensitized people to death, “journalists" and advertisers have only continued to find words with more ‘oomph’ to catch the doom-scrolling eye. "BREAKING news! Archeologists have found the tomb of King Bigboy The Biggest!” Except that the discovery was eight years ago. “MAGA is in a CIVIL WAR over statements made by Redhat Bobby!” Except it’s not.