In the practical control of microelectromechanical system (MEMS) gyroscopes, dead-zone non-linearity often exists, which has negative influence on the resolution and performance of the gyroscope system. System non-linearities are inevitable in actual MEMS gyroscopes and require the controller to be either adaptive or robust to these non-linearities. In this paper, an adaptive fuzzy compensator is designed to compensate the dead-zone non-linearities for MEMS gyroscope. A fuzzy logic system is used for dead-zone non-linear switching function and an optimal algorithm is designed to make the dead-zone compensator to tune the parameters adaptively. The closed-loop stability can be guaranteed with the proposed adaptive fuzzy dead-zone compensation. Simulation results demonstrate that the tracking error can be attenuated efficiently and robustness of the control system can be improved with the proposed adaptive fuzzy non-linearity compensator.