Bow down to Astro, Amazon’s little home robot with Alexa
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The machine revolution has not been what I expected, but something with a friendlier appearance. Amazon introduced his little robot Astro, designed to follow in his owners’ footsteps around their home (like a faithful pet) and “Helping people with a variety of tasks”.
Astro works with Alexa and although it is made to receive orders, go to a specific room in the house, play music, present the weather on your screen and even recognize faces and deliver objects to whoever is ordered, the reality is that it is designed for home protection.
According to Amazon, with its 12-inch diameter drive wheels Astro can move 360 ​​degrees (front to back) to autonomously navigate every corner of a house, search specific areas, broadcast live video and alert their owners if someone unknown has entered their territory. It also has the Alexa Guard feature to detect the sound of the fire alarm or the noise of a window breaking.
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Regarding its technical characteristics, Astro is 60 centimeters tall and weighs around 9 kilograms. In its guts it has five different motors: one for each wheel, one to raise and lower its periscope camera and two to turn and tilt its “face” which includes a screen showing two circles that attempt to imitate a pair of eyes that can display a series of “emotions”.
The 12 MP Astro camera can be raised up to a meter high, and his stick It has a series of far-field microphones. It is also capable of carrying up to 2kg of charge, It has a 15-watt USB-C port to charge other devices and its battery promises a range of up to two hours of continuous movement. Astro’s brain is powered by a Qualcomm silicon processor.
What’s more, its operating system is based on Fire OS and Linux since Amazon also seeks that users and developers themselves “Can develop unique capabilities that allow Astro to continue to improve over time”.
It would be great if he barked.
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