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Amazon is bricking its Astro business robots less than a year after launch
So long, Wall-E-esque guard bot.
Amazon isn’t commenting on how many business bots it actually sold since the November 2023 launch, but the company’s VP of hardware engineering says he’s “increasingly convinced the progress we’re making in home robotics is where we should focus our resources.” We’re sharing his full internal memo below. To do this, and accelerate our progress further, we’ve made the decision to wind down the Astro for Business program to focus our efforts entirely on building the best consumer robotics products for the home Last year, leaked internal documents hinted at a new version with conversational generative AI that “remembers what it saw and understood,” can “engage in a Q&A dialogue on what it saw,” and potentially spot hazards in a home like broken glass on the floor.
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