Amazon announced its long-rumored $999 Astro home robot on Tuesday. I had a chance to check it out in a demo with Amazon last week and wanted to share a few thoughts on what Astro is, what it can and ...

Electronics companies have for years paraded around flashy, futuristic prototypes of consumer robots. They've pointed to a not-too-distant future where people will have roaming robot helpers around ...

Big tech companies like Amazon are under increasing scrutiny for the way they use (and sometimes misuse) personal data. Amazon did not take that into account when it announced Astro, its first-even ...

Most people hear Amazon robotics and picture orange drive units, tall shelves, and package sorting lanes. That picture is still true ...

Amazon's humanoid bet isn't about competing with Tesla's factory robots. Its about quietly building the operating system for ...

Amazon has acquired Fauna Robotics, just under two months after the startup introduced a humanoid robot called Sprout ...