Amazon assembles team to develop new home robot after Astro's limited run
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Amazon has assembled a new team working on a "new-to-world robot product," according to a CNBC analysis of job posts.
The job posts do not identify the product as a home robot, but CNBC describes the effort as following the Astro home robot.
Astro shipped to only a few thousand customers, and Amazon sunset an Astro for businesses less than a year after its 2023 release. In March, Amazon acquired New York-based Fauna Robotics, whose 3.5-foot humanoid Sprout is now part of its new Personal Robotics Group.
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AIAmazon has assembled a new team working on a "new-to-world robot product," according to a CNBC analysis of job posts. The effort follows the Astro home robot, which shipped to only a few thousand customers before the company sunset an Astro for businesses less than a year after its 2023 release. In March, Amazon acquired New York-based Fauna Robotics, whose 3.5-foot humanoid Sprout is now part of its new Personal Robotics Group.
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