Amazon.com Inc. is discontinuing Astro for Business, a program that enabled businesses to monitor their facilities using the company’s Astro home robot. TechCrunch reported the development today, ...

Amazon has decided to discontinue its Astro for Business device, a security robot for small- and medium-sized businesses, just seven months after launch. In an email sent to customers and employees on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In an acknowledgement that cracking the home robotics market is hard, Amazon is bringing its Astro robot to a decidedly more ...

Amazon announced its long-rumored $999 Astro home robot on Tuesday. I had a chance to check it out in a demo with Amazon last week and wanted to share a few thoughts on what Astro is, what it can and ...

Earlier this month, The Verge’s Sean Hollister reported Amazon chose to brick its Astro robots for businesses in favor of focusing its energy into the consumer segment of the product’s market.

We got to see Amazon’s latest gadget early — it’s the long-rumored robot. We spent about 50 minutes with Astro. Like robots of the past (some have fizzled out; others have gone extinct like Anki’s ...

The tech giant’s first foray into home robotics violates a key tech product tenet: Don’t be a nuisance. Amazon Astro is the rare tech product that makes a point of getting in your way. For the past ...

In a two-week trial, Astro was surprisingly endearing and avoided hazards such as pets and stairs. But I still don’t know what I’d do with one. As a technology analyst, I often have the opportunity to ...

Most people hear Amazon robotics and picture orange drive units, tall shelves, and package sorting lanes. That picture is still true ...