Social RoboticsAmazon unveils Astro, a home robot built around Alexa
The wheeled robot with a screen for a face was offered by invitation at an introductory 1,000 dollar price.
Amazon revealed Astro at its devices event as a roughly 20-pound robot that maps the home, follows people, streams video to a phone and can patrol while owners are away. It can carry small items such as drinks, give medication reminders and respond to Alexa commands, with a 10-inch screen acting as its face and a periscope camera. Amazon offered it to a limited number of early US customers and called it version one of a line of home robots. Astro was the most prominent attempt by a big tech company to put a personality-driven robot into ordinary homes.
Source: Fortune
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