Amazon’s Astro Is a Robot Without a Cause

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What do you get when you mix Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant with an Echo Show tablet, give it a hefty dose of artificial intelligence, integrate it all with Ring’s home security system, and let it roll around your home autonomously? Actually, you get Astro, Amazon’s long-rumored home robot. Amazon’s hardware chief Dave Limp identified a few potential use cases in an interview with WIRED, including eldercare and home security. Even more akin to a robot vacuum cleaner are the array of sensors in the bot: Astro is packed with “ultrasonic sensors, time-of-flight cameras, and other imaging tools that let the robot know what’s around it and where it’s going,” according to The Verge.

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Astro: Amazon reveals robot Alexa that can drive around your house

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Everything Amazon Announced—Including a Cute Security Robot

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Amazon launches $1,000 voice-controlled robot for home

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