The rolling, Alexa-infused consumer robot knows how to make itself feel at home. As I mentioned in my last column on Astro’s approach to defining a category, I was an Astro tester. This led to some ...

Amazon Astro is one of the most intriguing products in the Amazon catalog — and a new report indicates it might become even more enticing in the future. According to internal documents, Amazon will be ...

Amazon today announced Astro, a helpful, adorable little robot for use throughout the home. It was without a doubt the most polarizing announcement at Amazon’s fall event. Unlike many other devices we ...

The new Amazon Astro robot is endearing with its small body and expressive eyes — but its data collecting abilities are also a little terrifying. Amazon's tiny Astro Robot is the home assistant of the ...

In August 2022, Amazon spent $1.7bn on iRobot, an American start-up with one foot in military contracts and the other in domestic cleaning robots. iRobot is best known for its Roomba series of ...

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 ...

Amazon’s cute little Astro robot has been scurrying its way around my apartment for the past few weeks. It has no arms to scratch its own head in confusion, but I am willing to do that for him. As ...

I just wanted to turn the lights off with my voice. It was 2014. After spending my first two years at CNET getting my feet wet writing about color-changing smart bulbs and other newfangled wonders of ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The idea of robots helping us to do things has been glorified for years in movies like Wall-E and the Iron Giant. But, with the 2021 limited ...