Amazon Astro robot price and everything it can do

Amazon Astro robot price and everything it tin practise

(Image credit: Amazon)

Amazon has unveiled Astro at the Amazon event, an Alexa-enabled dwelling house robot that tin can gyre around your house and allow you use Amazon's virtual assistant pretty much wherever you get.

The Astro is too designed to intelligently monitor your home while you lot're away, and you tin can remotely send Astro to bank check on specific rooms, people, or things. This robot can even bring yous a drinkable or toss treats to your dog with the right accessories.

Here's everything Amazon announced about the Astro, including the release date, price and all the features of this robot.

Amazon Astro release engagement and price

The Astro is part of Amazon's 24-hour interval 1 Edition program; it will be available on Amazon for $999 for early invitees, with a free half-dozen-month trial of Ring Protect Pro (which costs $20 per calendar month after). Subsequently, the Astro will cost $ane,499.

Amazon says it will beginning shipping the Astro in limited quantities to customers later this year.

Amazon Astro: Design

Amazon Astro debuted at Amazon event — (Image credit: Amazon)

The Amazon Astro is a small, three-wheeled robot that stands near a foot off the ground. The forepart two wheels are somewhat large, with a third wheel in the dorsum to provide stabilization. Information technology's generally white, with a few blackness accents hither and there.

The front of the Astro has a brandish that looks to be most ten inches in size. The brandish, which has a camera built in, is mounted on a rotating pedestal, so it can turn and angle towards the person who's speaking to it.

The brandish has 2 "eyes" on its front that wink and glimmer; this, combined with some movements of the brandish itself, assistance requite Astro a bit of personality, and make it seem less like a surveillance camera on wheels.

Even more clever is a periscope that rises up 42 inches, and then that you tin get a better view of things above — such as to run into if someone left the stove on, or if yous left your keys on the counter.

The Astro weighs virtually xx poundsand can motion at effectually 1 meter per second. On the back of the Astro is a small cupholder, so you can use information technology to evangelize beverages to others in the firm. I can meet this beingness very handy on game days.

Amazon Astro: Features

Amazon Astro at Amazon event — (Epitome credit: Amazon)

The Astro is more or less Alexa on wheels; everything that y'all tin exercise with, say, the Amazon Repeat Testify ten, you lot'll be able to do on the Astro, such equally listening to music, playing movies, looking up recipes and more. Not surprisingly, the Astro works with Driblet-In, so you can chat with friends and family on video calls. The robot volition even follow you around during chats.

Yous'll also exist able to motor the Astro around your business firm using an app on your telephone, so you lot can remotely check in on things while you're away. You tin can also gear up the Astro to patrol your home at night, or when you lot're not at home. It tin can fifty-fifty transport you an alert if if sees someone information technology doesn't recognize.

As with the new Amazon Echo Bear witness 15, the Astro has Visual ID, and so yous can train it to recognize specific family members. The information is stored on the robot, rather than in the cloud.

Astro owners tin gear up out-of-premises areas they don't want the robot to go into, and a physical button for the microphone and cameras can disable those devices.

Amazon Astro: Outlook

Like the Ring Always Abode Cam, the Amazon Astro is an ambitious smart dwelling house device that borders between clever and creepy. The relatively small-scale size of the Astro, coupled with its "personality," makes it far more approachable than larger home robots.

As Amazon said during its event, the Astro is the first of what volition be many home robots coming in the future. Like its namesake in The Jetsons, Astro is a portent of what's to come up.

If y'all want to get more of our thoughts so here are 3 reasons to buy and 3 reasons to skip the Amazon Astro.

Michael A. Prospero is the deputy editor at Tom's Guide overseeing the home, smart domicile, drones, and fitness/wearables categories, as well as all buying guides and other evergreen content. When he'due south non testing out the latest running watch, skiing or training for a marathon, he's probably using the latest sous vide machine or some other cooking gadget.