Does Amazon Need to have a Home Robot?

Maybe not,  but it has the architecture and might as well experiment.  See also Kuri, mentioned here.

Does Amazon need a robot?  by Tom Ryan in Retailwire

Amazon.com is developing its first consumer robot product, and it could reach American homes as soon as early 2019, according to Bloomberg.

Known internally as “Vesta,” the project has been under development for several years through Lab 126, the division responsible for Echo and Kindle. Amazon ramped up hiring for the project ramped up this year with a goal to seed devices in employees’ homes by year end.

No details have emerged on exactly what the robot looks like or what it can do, but sources familiar with the project told Bloomberg that Vesta “could be a sort of mobile Alexa,” accompanying users to places in their homes that don’t have Alexa devices. Backed by cameras and computer vision software, prototypes “can navigate through homes like a self-driving car,” Bloomberg reported. ... "