{"id":9579,"date":"2018-06-26T09:37:47","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T15:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.virtuance.com\/?p=9579"},"modified":"2018-06-26T09:37:47","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T15:37:47","slug":"amazon-building-home-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.virtuance.com\/member\/blog\/amazon-building-home-robot\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon is reportedly building a home robot"},"content":{"rendered":"

It could roll out as early as 2019<\/em><\/h2>\n
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By Jeff Andrews | Source Curbed<\/a><\/p>\n

While the world waits with baited breath to find out which\u00a0lucky city will be the site of Amazon\u2019s second headquarters,<\/a>\u00a0Bloomberg\u00a0reports<\/a>\u00a0that the e-commerce giant has been quietly working on a new project that could have even bigger implications\u2014domestic robots.<\/p>\n

Code-named \u201cVesta,\u201d after the Roman goddess of the hearth, home, and family, the project could put robots in the homes of employees by the end of this year, with a rollout to consumers potentially happening as early as 2019.<\/p>\n

Citing \u201cpeople familiar with the plans,\u201d Bloomberg says it\u2019s unclear what functions the robot might be able to perform. But given the success of\u00a0Amazon Echo<\/a>\u00a0and its Alexa smart assistant, it\u2019s reasonable to expect the robot to at least be able to perform Alexa-powered functions\u2014kind of like an Echo on wheels.<\/p>\n

The project appears to be under the umbrella of Amazon\u2019s Lab126, the company\u2019s hardware research and development division in Sunnyvale, California. Lab126 has been responsible for every major hardware offering in Amazon\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

Amazon has seen mixed results with hardware in the past. The Kindle was a smash hit that changed the way people read books, and the Echo appears to be well on its way to having a similar impact in the smart home space. However, the Amazon Fire Phone\u00a0failed<\/a>\u00a0in spectacular fashion, while the\u00a0Fire tablet<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0FireStick OTT device<\/a>\u00a0have had varying success.<\/p>\n

Home robots have long been a\u00a0consumer tech obsession<\/a>. Both tech heavyweights (i.e.\u00a0LG<\/a>) and\u00a0startups<\/a>\u00a0alike are busy working on robots for the home, but so far the most practical of any of these developments is still probably vacuuming bots like iRobot\u2019s Roomba. An Amazon home robot could become the first of its kind to go mainstream.<\/p>\n

And if there was any doubt about the market\u2019s expectations for Amazon\u2019s entry into the robot space, take a look at\u00a0iRobot\u2019s stock price today<\/a>. It plummeted upon the news of Amazon\u2019s Vesta project. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It could roll out as early as 2019 By Jeff Andrews | Source Curbed While the world waits with baited breath to find out which\u00a0lucky city will be the site of Amazon\u2019s second headquarters,\u00a0Bloomberg\u00a0reports\u00a0that the e-commerce giant has been quietly working on a new project that could have even bigger implications\u2014domestic robots. Code-named \u201cVesta,\u201d after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14503,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.virtuance.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.virtuance.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.virtuance.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.virtuance.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14503"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.virtuance.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.virtuance.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9581,"href":"https:\/\/staging.virtuance.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9579\/revisions\/9581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.virtuance.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.virtuance.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.virtuance.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}