Amazon’s Astro robot gets pet detection, home security updates and an SDK

By News Curator

There’s been a standing question surrounding how seriously we should ultimately take Astro. The product was launched exactly one year ago, in limited quantities as a Day One offering for $1,500 a pop. My interaction with the robot was (at the time) limited to a few pre-launch demos. I came away from the experience thinking […]

Amazon’s Astro robot gets pet detection, home security updates and an SDK by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

Anki’s spiritual successor hits Kickstarter with some impressive moves

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Like a number of attendees, I was taken with ClicBot when I first saw it a few CESes ago. We’re all up to our ears in “educational” robotics kits. STEM learning is important, of course, but the last several years have seen a veritable explosion in these sorts of toys, and your mileage is going […]

Anki’s spiritual successor hits Kickstarter with some impressive moves by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch