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Amazon Looks Beyond Speakers With Alexa-Powered Home Robots

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Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) gave birth to the smart-speaker market five years ago when it launched its first Echo device. Alphabet's Google, Facebook, Apple, and others all subsequently launched their own speakers, but Amazon still controlled two-thirds of the U.S. market last year, according to eMarketer. The smart-speaker market still has room to grow, but Amazon is already exploring the next step for Alexa -- a mobile home robot that can freely roam around a user's home. Reports about the robot, codenamed Vesta, surfaced last year, but more details about the device have emerged recently. Bloomberg claims that Amazon initially planned to launch Vesta this year, but it still isn't ready to be mass produced. The report, which cites people familiar with the matter, claims that the prototypes are waist-high and navigate autonomously with computer vision cameras. An engineer summoned the Vesta with his voice during an internal demo, and the final version should be integrated with...

The Interactive & Personal Home Robot That’s a Big Hit On Indiegogo

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  Aido Robot is the next generation social family robot. Smart, interactive, and uniquely mobile, Aido is the first social robot that can move around your home/office to help improve your lifestyle. He can play with your kids, help you with household chores, handle your schedule, and keep your home connected and safe.   The family robot was awarded “GameChanger” of 2016 by the world’s leading tech magazine (T3). With a slight resemblance to Wall-E’s robotic girlfriend Eve, it’s easy to see why this family robot is a big hit on Indiegogo. After approaching $1 million raised in pre-orders with a special 60% off for early investors I invited Arshad Hisham the Founder and CEO at InGen Dynamics Inc onto the show.   Click here   InGen Dynamics is a Palo Alto based privately held company with strategic partnerships with the world’s leading vision, sound, technology, artificial intelligence and Optics companies. Ingen Dynamic’s human-centered approach to design ...