Amazon unveiled its first home robot ‘Astro’ at an event last night. The company explains that the robot is “designed to help customers with multiple tasks such as home monitoring and keeping in touch with family.” With a mix of artificial intelligence, computer vision, sensor technology and voice and edge computing, Astro is touted as the next-gen virtual assistant that literally takes a physical form factor and surrounds you to help with daily tasks. can be OK. Here’s what the home robot is capable of.
In terms of design, the Astro may look similar to Pixar’s Wall-E with less cleaning power. In fact, the promotional video teases the sound similar to the Disney character, at least when moving (or sliding), which many fans also remember in Star Wars’ BB-8. In terms of use cases, Amazon said Astro works with ‘Ring’, the company’s smart-security solution. With Ring Protect Pro, a new subscription service from Ring, users can set up Astro to autonomously patrol your home and even save videos to Ring cloud storage. This will allow users to watch clips from Ring or Astro apps at any time.
What makes Astro more impressive, at least in the promotional material, is its fluid-moving movement that sets it apart from rigid robots like ‘C-3PO’ from the Star Wars series. We can tilt the screen fluidly up and down – mimicking the neck movements of a real creature. Amazon says to help personalize the experience, Astro supports a new computer vision feature called Visual ID, which teaches household members to robotically recognize their schedules. This would mean that Astro could send a reminder or call to a specific person or even find someone to bring them an item stored in “Astro’s cargo bin.”
But of course, all the latest machine learning and AI capabilities raise a number of privacy concerns that Amazon tries to address. In a blog post, the e-commerce giant noted that its Home Robot has a dedicated microphone/camera-off button like other Echo devices. When enabled, the Astro cannot transfer or capture video and audio – and a dedicated red LED is illuminated to match the red status indicator on the screen. Next to it is an “easy to see LED light on the top of the Periscope to let you know when it’s streaming video or audio to the cloud.” For example, the indicator light at the top of Astro’s periscope will turn green whenever a video is streamed to the cloud, such as when a live view is in progress. In a separate FAQ, Amazon claims that the sensor data Astro uses to navigate your home is processed on the device and not always sent to the cloud. It simply streams video or images to the cloud when users use features like Live View in the Astro app, video calling with Alexa Communications, or video recording and storage by Ring.
It is clear that Amazon is projecting ‘Astro’ not as an advanced Alexa-enabled robot, but as a next-generation virtual assistant, which now appears in a physical body. This is also very clear with the moniker as it is simply called Astro and not Echo Astro. In addition, it has its own separate word “astro”.
In terms of pricing, the Astro will cost $1,449.99 (approximately Rs 1,07,500) but will be available with a six-month trial of Ring Protect Pro subscription starting at $999.99 (approximately Rs 74,200). Day 1 edition schedule. The Astro will be available in limited quantities, and the company plans to begin offering invitations and shipping equipment to customers in the US later this year. It could easily take a few years for Astro to come to India. Readers can watch the full story on launch from last night Here
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