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Amazon’s Home Security Robot: The REAL Reasons to Own One (Astro Review)

More than just an Amazon Echo Show on wheels. See it here: Amazon’s $1,000 robot assistant is available by invite only. It’s ambitious, experimental and exciting. But it’s also still searching for a purpose — and working out some serious kinks. 0:00 Intro 0:43 The Basics 2:01 Setup 3:11 Security 4:32 Burglary Test 6:45 Hide…

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More than just an Amazon Echo Show on wheels.
See it here:

Amazon’s $1,000 robot assistant is available by invite only. It’s ambitious, experimental and exciting. But it’s also still searching for a purpose — and working out some serious kinks.

0:00 Intro
0:43 The Basics
2:01 Setup
3:11 Security
4:32 Burglary Test
6:45 Hide & Seek Test
9:57 Obstacle Course Test
15:23 Astro The Toy
18:15 Astro’s Smarts
19:15 Conclusion

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  1. Kevin02 Mulder

    April 27, 2022 at 12:33 pm

    what if you have a cat in the house ? ????

  2. Self-Law

    April 27, 2022 at 12:34 pm

    Pile of junk?.

    • Self-Law

      April 27, 2022 at 12:36 pm

      Consenting to allow a third party to see and hear in your private space sending data to who knows where and what purposes.. Kool.

  3. SugarGliderDude

    April 27, 2022 at 12:38 pm

    totally pointless

  4. Z

    April 27, 2022 at 12:41 pm

    Can you install a pistol on it?

  5. Andrei Predescu

    April 27, 2022 at 12:42 pm

    I was hoping to see more scenarios involving stairs since the devs said it will throw itself off them if presented the opportunity.

  6. Gary Beltz

    April 27, 2022 at 12:43 pm

    Astro burp lol

  7. Tea With Danny

    April 27, 2022 at 1:19 pm

    This reminds me of the Facebook Portal: absolutely useless

  8. Tom Nally

    April 27, 2022 at 1:48 pm

    It retails for $41.67/month for 24 months. So, is that a bargain?

  9. David Brody

    April 27, 2022 at 2:03 pm

    I’m confused. Wasn’t Astro on the Jetsons? Or was that Dino? How does Scooby Doo fit into this?

  10. Patryk Ponichtera

    April 27, 2022 at 2:04 pm

    What problem does it solve?
    A product that can’t solve a problem is useless

    Things I’d like a robot to do: Take a drink from a fridge and deliver it, clean the house, do my laundry, cook.
    This doesn’t do any of that, all it does is roam around and act cute, but if it’s a virtual pet that you need, it seems like a $5 app would do a better job

  11. mpvchap

    April 27, 2022 at 2:26 pm

    I don’t like the new CNET logo!!! It looks very ordinary!! Does anyone else feel the same??

  12. dudebro

    April 27, 2022 at 2:29 pm

    The new CNET website is pretty difficult to read. Just a feedback. My initial scan of the page makes my eyes cross-eyed whereas previously I would immediately notice headlines for each article.

  13. Stephen Huxtable

    April 27, 2022 at 3:00 pm

    All these houses with no doors

  14. Rishi PrasadH

    April 27, 2022 at 3:26 pm

    This is a waste of money and time. Its really in its R&D, and still a big joke to get it for $1500. Another major feature issue is it cannot be used in the house with pets. I mean who is going to get it lol.

  15. Dustin McDowell

    April 27, 2022 at 3:34 pm

    Oh good. A rumba that doesn’t clean the floor. What a waste of resources and energy.

  16. SuperSZ

    April 27, 2022 at 3:44 pm

    When did CNET change its logo? It looks old, like from the 1940’s … Not too fiting for a tech news company

  17. Samuel Sunil

    April 27, 2022 at 3:58 pm

    Ngl cnet, this logo is disgusting ????

  18. Bill Bodega

    April 27, 2022 at 4:22 pm

    Thank you for such a thorough review! I try not to be too anti-new tech after watching idiot babies ruin VR gaming, but I still find this repulsive. I also find it wild that this is as smart as they could make it. Sure, there will be updates, but the amount of time it would take to develop software to make this thing not trash will far exceed the life of this product. Claiming this is Artificial Intelligence should be illegal.

  19. Andrew Caplan

    April 27, 2022 at 5:15 pm

    Congrats on the rebrand! Going to take some getting used to. I’m seeing a bit of a similarity to the Apple News icon ????????‍♂️

  20. SecretOfMonkeyIsland

    April 27, 2022 at 6:19 pm

    Completely useless if you live in a property that has multiple storeys or levels to navigate. Nobody sensible is going to buy 1 for each floor.

  21. Spectre Darque

    April 27, 2022 at 6:37 pm

    Useless.

  22. michael douglas

    April 27, 2022 at 7:19 pm

    Robot vacuums has come a long way since inception, Astro is just a stepping stone in the direction of what’s to come, I’m really excited for what we’ll see in a few years from now, especially if apple and google decided to throw their hats into the ring!

    • olivia buller

      April 28, 2022 at 3:05 am

      Yes this has me excited!

  23. Kristofer S

    April 27, 2022 at 10:09 pm

    My dogs will destroy…

  24. Brianna Morales

    April 27, 2022 at 11:51 pm

    I feel like the new logo font looks like a fashion magazine font

  25. Greg James

    April 28, 2022 at 1:20 am

    Amazon is notorious for abandoning gadgets without warning. Think of the Fire Phone, Wand, and Dash buttons. Amazon Auto was also a huge fail.

  26. LFTRnow

    April 28, 2022 at 5:16 am

    Astro, set auto-destruct sequence. Authorization, Picard 4-Delta-1,1,Tango,7.

  27. Rahman R

    April 28, 2022 at 5:37 am

    Lol little dude went to get a gun ok…. ????????????

  28. EpicConspiracy

    April 28, 2022 at 7:29 am

    Can you program it to say “Happy Birthday Pauly”?

  29. Jordan Crawford

    April 28, 2022 at 8:30 am

    5:44 TBH, this is all of us.

  30. SABlister

    April 28, 2022 at 12:24 pm

    move over alexa, here’s an even more useless piece of e-garbage

  31. R0773N

    April 28, 2022 at 1:05 pm

    I still kinda want one.

  32. Dawn Monroe

    April 28, 2022 at 4:16 pm

    The kids are too cute! Great job CNET. This is an awesome review.

  33. Thomas Raven

    April 28, 2022 at 4:21 pm

    Another expensive toy. Worthless to me, but it might entertain children (or product reviewers) for 10 minutes. That’s $100 per minute of entertainment. Nice work, Amazon.

  34. dongchan cho

    April 29, 2022 at 5:31 pm

    add built-in robot vacuum system. Vacuum robot easily charges $1000 nowadays

  35. Azalea Rivera

    April 29, 2022 at 7:40 pm

    I just wanna know if it’ll hurt my pets

  36. STOCKacts

    April 30, 2022 at 5:02 am

    One word: Optimus

  37. Barack Obama

    May 1, 2022 at 5:23 am

    Cant wait to pay 1000$ to have amazon watch you 24/7

  38. Chillmax

    May 1, 2022 at 9:58 am

    “Amazon Powered Home”, no thanks, sounds like a nightmare! None of this stuff is necessary & just makes you spend money you don’t need to, with no doubt unreliable & possibly even dangerous results. Is it fun to pretend to live in the future, of course, I love Star Trek (pre 2006), but all of this makes life worse, really it does, life was better before all of this techno-trash ;-(.

  39. Chillmax

    May 1, 2022 at 12:55 pm

    I appreciated the thoughtful outcome of this review.

  40. calab

    May 1, 2022 at 4:09 pm

    A walking alexa, no.

  41. Drone Travel Videos

    May 2, 2022 at 12:03 am

    Let’s be honest… this is useless other than a party trick

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