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Astro
Amazon’s new home assistant, Astro, integrates Alexa, advanced hardware, software, computer vision, and artificial intelligence.
Astro, which costs $999.99, is a robot and uses a periscope camera with an expandable field of view to proactively patrol your home and send you notifications when it detects something unusual. Videos taken by Astro can be saved to a customer’s Ring account. In addition, Astro can detect the sound of a smoke alarm, carbon monoxide alarm, or glass breaking, and send an alert to your phone using Alexa Guard and can follow you from room to room while playing your favorite shows, podcasts, or music.
It uses a periscope camera with an expandable field of view to proactively patrol your home and send you notifications when it detects something unusual.
It can also be used to monitor guests that are sneaking in when a spouse is gone for a while, and the footage can be sent to attorneys that are looking for dirt that can be used during bitter divorce proceedings.