Bloomberg reports on linking up with a wheeled home robot for mobile tasks. The complexity and maintenance of the latter makes them more problematic as general task devices, as can be seen by the failure of a number of attempts at this in recent years. Alexa enabled solutions my prevail, if they believe they know the home environment and can prevail there. (Dated article now, but had not posted this )
Amazon continues work on mobile home robot as it preps new high-end Echo, says report Prototypes for the wheeled robot can be summoned using voice commands By James Vincent in TheVerge
Amazon is still working on a mobile home robot, according to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. It’s also planning to add a high-end Echo to its lineup of Alexa devices.
We first heard about Amazon’s plans to build a wheeled home robot in April last year. The project is reportedly codenamed “Vesta” (after the Roman goddess of the hearth), and rumors suggest it’s a sort of “mobile Alexa” that’s able to follow users around their homes.
Today’s report doesn’t add significantly to this picture, but it seems Amazon is still keen to build the mobile device. It was apparently slated to launch this year but wasn’t ready for mass-production. Engineers have reportedly been pulled from other projects to work on Vesta, and Gurman reports that prototypes are “waist-high and navigate with the help of an array of computer-vision cameras.” They can also be summoned using voice commands. .... "
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