{"id":19433,"date":"2021-09-29T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/?p=19433"},"modified":"2021-09-29T22:10:16","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T20:10:16","slug":"amazon-launches-astro-its-first-domestic-robot-assistant-on-wheels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/en\/amazon-launches-astro-its-first-domestic-robot-assistant-on-wheels\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon launches Astro, its first domestic robot assistant on wheels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">No way an Alexa on wheels, Astro, the first domestic robot assistant by Amazon has been provided with an unique persona that\u2019s all its own. From adding eyes to the display, to a whole host of sounds, the device really comes alive and moving.<br><br>Astro will bring all of Alexa features like music, news, podcasts, and timers directly to their users. If doing a video call, but  will move with its owner around the house, so that he\/she can continue the conversation.<br><br>Like Alexa, which has continued to get smarter since it was launched seven years ago, Astro will get smarter and more capable over time too.<br>Astro will be available for an introductory price of $999.<br><br>From 28th September people interested in acquiring the robot can sign up to request an invite. Amazon plans to start granting invitations and shipping the device later this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">There are no fixed roads at home, the first problem to be solved for a moving bot<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">How can a tech assistant on wheels move around at home without  bumping against the school bag or the toys children have left scattered all over the floor?. There are no fixed roads at home and this was one of the first problems to solve for Astro to be actually convenient and operative.<br><br>That&#8217;s why Astro features embeded software and tools for autonomous movement, home mapping, visual understanding, and more specially developped by Amazon. The company has leveraged AI in many new ways, including using deep neural learning to map anchor points in the home, and building dynamic new SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping) algorithms that are constantly refreshing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Privacy protection the second big problem to be solved<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">In addition to many of the privacy features customers are used to with Echo devices, Amazon built brand new features for Astro:<br>Users can set out-of-bounds zones to denote areas where the owner don\u2019t want Astro to go.<br><br>Turning on \u201cdo not disturb\u201d the user can minimize how much Astro moves during certain times of the day or night.<br>Amazon has also embedded AI processors inside of Astro to allow for as much edge computing as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Image over the headline.- <\/span><\/strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Astro, first ever Amazon . \u00a9 Amazon<\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Related external links:<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/sj1t3msy8dc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Watch Astro in action (video)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/YiHE5y1L2Bk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">The work behind Astro (video)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astro will bring all of Alexa features like music, news, podcasts, and timers directly to their users but is no way an Alexa on wheels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":19439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[11414,11043,11983,3083],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19433"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=19433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}