{"id":128503,"date":"2021-10-03T09:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T16:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/amazons-astro-home-robot-puts-alexa-on-wheels-but-is-it-worth-1000"},"modified":"2021-10-03T09:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T16:22:18","slug":"amazons-astro-home-robot-puts-alexa-on-wheels-but-is-it-worth-1000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/amazons-astro-home-robot-puts-alexa-on-wheels-but-is-it-worth-1000","title":{"rendered":"Amazon\u2019s Astro home robot puts Alexa on wheels \u2014 but is it worth $1,000?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/amazons-astro-home-robot-puts-alexa-on-wheels-but-is-it-worth-1000.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looks kind of like a computer printer on big wheels.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>We got to see Amazon\u2019s latest gadget early \u2014 it\u2019s the long-rumored robot.<\/p>\n<p>We spent about 50 minutes with <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Introducing-Amazon-Astro\/dp\/B078NSDFSB\/r?&linkCode=ll1&tag=lifeboatfound-20&linkId=6b49ac415122243864aa7af06b2b102b&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow, sponsored\" target=\"_blank\">Astro<\/a>. Like robots of the past (some have fizzled out; others have gone extinct like Anki\u2019s Vector and Cozmo robots), it focuses on peace of mind in the likes of home monitoring and checking in on household members, along with providing entertainment. At the heart of Astro is Amazon\u2019s smart assistant and artificial intelligence chops \u2014 so, yes, <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b?node=21576558011&pd_rd_w=YFuux&pf_rd_p=d81340d1-73c6-4095-a8f3-fc35626993aa&pf_rd_r=5ZH4SWKV9V2N866HM9TJ&pd_rd_r=16fb4e74-74a8-4f3e-b4c2-be1f168ed6f3&pd_rd_wg=t479M&qid=1632850338&linkCode=ll2&tag=lifeboatfound-20&linkId=c85ba52727760a24a318509628a69ac5&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow, sponsored\" target=\"_blank\">Alexa<\/a> is on board just with an \u201cAstro\u201d wake word so that you can ask for the weather, a question or to go to a specific room.<\/p>\n<p>So let\u2019s break down Astro, what it can do and what we think after seeing this unique robot up close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks kind of like a computer printer on big wheels. We got to see Amazon\u2019s latest gadget early \u2014 it\u2019s the long-rumored robot. We spent about 50 minutes with Astro. Like robots of the past (some have fizzled out; others have gone extinct like Anki\u2019s Vector and Cozmo robots), it focuses on peace of mind [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}