According to documents and video meeting recordings obtained by Vice, engineers aren’t exactly thrilled by the $999 robot they came up with for Amazon.
According to developer documents and video meeting recordings obtained by Vice, the engineers behind Amazon’s new $999 robot aren’t thrilled with the finished product. The e-retailer recently announced the Astro, a stalkerish two-wheeled robot designed to keep track of everything you do, and even spy on anybody unlucky enough to enter your home. Even if you sign on to that troubling premise, the bot’s developers apparently weren’t happy with the final product. “Astro is terrible and will almost certainly throw itself down a flight of stairs if presented the opportunity,” an unnamed developer said, as quoted by Vice. “The person detection is unreliable at best, making the in-home security proposition laughable.
