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Amazon Astro: Unboxing and First Impressions

A meet and greet with Amazon’s helper bot. See Astro here: *CNET may get a commission from these offers We unbox Amazon’s Astro and give it a tour of the smart home. Can it live up to the hype? Is it an exciting leap forward or a surveillance nightmare? Here’s what we thought after the…

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A meet and greet with Amazon’s helper bot.
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We unbox Amazon’s Astro and give it a tour of the smart home. Can it live up to the hype? Is it an exciting leap forward or a surveillance nightmare? Here’s what we thought after the setup process and a day of testing.

0:00 Intro
0:18 Unboxing
4:04 Setup
5:18 Mapping the floor
7:00 Playing with Astro
11:04 Day 1 Impressions

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56 Comments

  1. Adventure Edgar

    April 11, 2022 at 5:52 pm

    What loser would waste $1,000 on this???

  2. Tony Wong

    April 11, 2022 at 5:52 pm

    I mean the host is way too excited to actually give useful info about the device…

  3. Saad Hussain

    April 11, 2022 at 5:57 pm

    Amusing to see what a lack of house maids can make people do! Lol

  4. Ε K

    April 11, 2022 at 6:25 pm

    I love the cuteness factor of this. However, it would have been a lot more useful and would temp me to buy it if it could actually open the fridge and bring me a beer. It needs a telescopic arm to open doors and to bring you items. Otherwise it is just an echo on wheels.

  5. AllProWebTools

    April 11, 2022 at 6:31 pm

    It a good innovation but there are some limits. I’m excited to see the future full of these robots.

  6. Vaux Glandzer

    April 11, 2022 at 6:35 pm

    Fun CNET host & fun astro. Nice & cool!

  7. cavemanvi

    April 11, 2022 at 7:03 pm

    He seems like a every other day shower kind of guy

  8. Suzi Offtheplanet

    April 11, 2022 at 7:11 pm

    ” I wanted to pick it up and give it a hug’ Hahaha. sort of thing I’d feel too 🙂

  9. Mark Baker

    April 11, 2022 at 8:16 pm

    Pretty cool. Retail AI tech is still quite a ways away from being…dependable. Perhaps my great grandkids will be able to enjoy the tech.

  10. Ruud van der Pol

    April 11, 2022 at 9:14 pm

    The solution for no problems😅

  11. Donald & tank

    April 11, 2022 at 9:16 pm

    I would rather have spot from Boston Dominic

  12. Omar F. Rodriguez Morales

    April 11, 2022 at 9:33 pm

    I would prefer instead a Haro, from Mobile Suit Gundam (1979), saying “Omar, wake up, wake up”

  13. Ash91

    April 11, 2022 at 11:00 pm

    The music is soooooo loud

  14. Eduno Eduno

    April 11, 2022 at 11:18 pm

    STOP HATING AND GIVE ME MY INVITE ALREADY AMAZON!!!

  15. Parker Cooper

    April 11, 2022 at 11:23 pm

    what a waste of money

  16. Eduno Eduno

    April 11, 2022 at 11:27 pm

    also for the next video can you get a less spazzy nerd?

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      April 11, 2022 at 11:30 pm

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  18. phonepup_mk8DX

    April 11, 2022 at 11:54 pm

    I can’t keep up 🥺
    I still believe unwanted surveillance and privacy will be the ultimate concern, even after the product develops.

  19. LuvFauxPlants

    April 12, 2022 at 12:00 am

    Awesome 👌

  20. Amin Animator

    April 12, 2022 at 12:04 am

    Astro not smart as Astro boy.

  21. oO0Xenos0Oo

    April 12, 2022 at 12:20 am

    1000$ for a home robot that cant even navigate as good as a mid range chinese vacuum cleaner? And it does nothing but taking pictures and giving you alexa functionality, which you most likely own already when buying this product? Shut up and take my money!

  22. Uncle Phil

    April 12, 2022 at 12:38 am

    Wow. $1,000 to avoid walking two rooms away to get a drink. Humanity has advanced so far! Somehow I think this will be a flop.

  23. hotdog 🌭

    April 12, 2022 at 12:49 am

    Desk chair wheel + old apple trackpad

  24. MANCAVE Studios

    April 12, 2022 at 12:55 am

    Imma hold out until I can afford my own personal Boston Dynamics style Atlas type robot butler with
    my UBI.

  25. Lachlan Brown

    April 12, 2022 at 2:01 am

    I still don’t get what this thing does? Really seems like a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist.

    • PSYCHO

      April 12, 2022 at 2:37 am

      Its main use is a mobile security camera when you’re away from home like for monitoring your pets.

  26. Narq

    April 12, 2022 at 2:26 am

    Some one is easily impressed.

  27. PSYCHO

    April 12, 2022 at 2:28 am

    I think this could be a great security camera for my friend to keep an eye on her two dogs while she’s out working.

    Unless anyone can recommend other great security cameras that can move around the house to keep an eye on pets??

    • TheChucky777

      April 12, 2022 at 4:37 am

      The ring device that can fly around inside is great for that.

  28. magggas0

    April 12, 2022 at 4:07 am

    This is just a prototype. The final one will be like “hey, now that i got you your drink, will you buy something from amazon? Please buy, please buy, please buy..”

  29. Adan Ortega

    April 12, 2022 at 4:16 am

    I want two 🤖

  30. Jameel

    April 12, 2022 at 4:45 am

    What is the point of this?

  31. Justin

    April 12, 2022 at 4:53 am

    BB8

  32. Will Cook

    April 12, 2022 at 5:10 am

    Omg he’s so cute

  33. nick moreno

    April 12, 2022 at 6:34 am

    This future sucks

  34. E Q

    April 12, 2022 at 9:39 am

    The constant BGM is more than disturbing

  35. Auto Young

    April 12, 2022 at 11:47 am

    It literally looks like a baby Rosie from The Jetsons…

  36. Dave kent

    April 12, 2022 at 3:30 pm

    A great way for the government to always be In your life.😉

  37. Mike Guest

    April 12, 2022 at 5:01 pm

    This device seems designed for large open plan houses. It’s more typical (at least in the UK) to have each room with it’s own individual door. Under most circumstances of I have the Xbox on, I’d have the lounge door shut to cut out annoying noise for the family. Astro would therefore be unable to bring me a drink from the kitchen.

  38. benjiebarker

    April 12, 2022 at 5:27 pm

    Is there a certain customer they are looking for. I haven’t got the invite yet 😭

  39. Timothy Collins

    April 12, 2022 at 5:34 pm

    My thing – I refuse to pay $1000 to be a beta tester for Amazon. If they want that work done they can pay me .

  40. James Cochrane

    April 12, 2022 at 6:49 pm

    It’s great but it doesn’t really do anything.

  41. Thomas

    April 12, 2022 at 8:26 pm

    It’s cute

  42. amit s

    April 12, 2022 at 9:19 pm

    Worst edited color gradedand inconsistent video I have seen in recent times..

  43. disciprine

    April 13, 2022 at 3:04 am

    Ah yes… Unusual architecture like railings…. So rare…. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  44. Sanket Mandlik

    April 13, 2022 at 7:03 am

    Im 26 now and after looking at this I think I don’t have to worry about robots taking over us till my life expectancy.

  45. Felix Behling

    April 13, 2022 at 9:45 am

    Your home is so beautiful!!

  46. LOCAL Youtuber RK

    April 13, 2022 at 10:11 am

    Its like a puppy

  47. Thanks to Caleb Chung

    April 13, 2022 at 12:48 pm

    I think Amazon should focus on giving it a personality. Yes it’s got the practical aspect of surveillance, but as there doesn’t really seem to any other practical things it can do they’d be better off focusing on making it a companion bot, which would be a lot more doable. It’s great that it can follow you around & they’ve given it cute little sounds & expressions, now they need to develop some subtle ways for it to interact with their owner – like for example knowing their owners routine & waiting at the front door to greet them when they return home.

  48. ethangillese

    April 13, 2022 at 5:31 pm

    I’m surprised they didn’t use iRobots mapping tech, I feel like it could’ve mapped that house easy

  49. Eddy Lee

    April 13, 2022 at 6:30 pm

    Absolutely carrrrrr p , like a Hoover on legs with I iPad interface and it’s pathetic . Belong in the bin .

  50. michael douglas

    April 13, 2022 at 7:26 pm

    My android and I think that this primitive yet cute 🤗

  51. Duncan Tembo

    April 14, 2022 at 1:05 am

    @6.55 “unusual architecture” but everything you mentioned is common…I want this to work, but maybe get Apple, Facebook, Google and Tesla involved 😂

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