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 ...

Amazon’s Astro home robot was introduced at the company’s fall Devices & Services event two years ago. Last year, Astro’s name was mentioned no less than 25 times during the annual event. This year: ...

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 ...

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 ...

Update: Amazon sent a statement to IGN after the publication of this article, noting that the characterizations of Asto's performance in the recent report were "simply inaccurate." Amazon's full ...

As I mentioned in my last column on Astro's approach to defining a category, I was an Astro tester. This led to some further interest in what life with Astro was like, so I'm sharing a bit more about ...