Amazon’s $1,000 roving at-home helper is fun but not necessarily helpful, says JoannaStern. See what happened when she tested it around her house for a couple weeks.
Astro moved in with my family for a couple of weeks. You can’t buy it—at least not until Amazon permits you.This browser does not support the video element.
The three-wheeled bot’s sensors allow it to navigate the house—or one floor of it anyway. Its microphones are always listening for “Astro” so you can command it to do various things, includingtwo on its baseball-bat-length periscope , let you keep an eye on your home while you’re away. Its 10-inch screen is for Astro’s big, expressive eyes, plus some basic tablety things.
My adventures with Astro, in its earliest days, showed me a world where computers can be relatable, proactive helpers.This browser does not support the video element.. Astro lacks arms, so someone needs to grab the cargo. In the time it takes me to call Astro to the kitchen and ask it to deliver something, I could have done it myself.Astro uses artificial intelligence to go to spaces where it thinks it will be useful. Astro decided around Day 2 that the kitchen would be the place.
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