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Amazon Has a Top-Secret Plan to Build Home Robots

 
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Amazon Has a Top-Secret Plan to Build Home Robots
The retail and cloud computing giant has embarked on an ambitious, top-secret plan to build a domestic robot, according to people familiar with the plans. Codenamed “Vesta,” after the Roman goddess of the hearth, home and family, the project is overseen by Gregg Zehr, who runs Amazon’s Lab126 hardware research and development division based in Sunnyvale, California. Lab126 is responsible for Amazon devices such as the Echo speakers, Fire TV set-top-boxes, Fire tablets and the ill-fated Fire Phone.

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doesn't SOUND top secret....
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doesn't SOUND top secret....
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doesn't SOUND top secret....
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LOL that is what i am saying.
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Will it really do windows?

Can it really mop a floor or scrub a tub or put the dishes away out of the dishwasher?

If so, call me when it's ready.

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Will it really do windows?

Can it really mop a floor or scrub a tub or put the dishes away out of the dishwasher?

If so, call me when it's ready.

Puzzled1
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I'm sure there will be attachments sold by Swiffer.
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Last Edited by 5.0% on 05/09/2018 01:05 AM
To Watch Is To Be Prepared Not Just During The Bad Times But In The Good Times As Well A Good Watchman Never Lets His Or Her Guard Down Never Gives Occasion To The Enemy.

Can't Shoot a Gun, Bait a Hook, Bake or Cook, You City Bitch!
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What was that film where the robot butlers went rogue?
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Cloud connected spybot. No thanks.
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What was that film where the robot butlers went rogue?
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This thread was much funnier when it got pinned with only the first three replies!




Last Edited by Louis in Richmond on 04/23/2018 04:12 PM
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What was that film where the robot butlers went rogue?
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I robot
Archaic Smile

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They already have the first prototype with Alexa.

Next shell knock on your door looking like some Well kept middle aged white woman with flesh and some form of power system.

Watch out...
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Will it provide "Adult Entertainment"...lol

wups, wrong thread 1rof1
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Re: Amazon Has a Top-Secret Plan to Build Home Robots
More like,

Amazon Has a Top-Secret Plan to Build Homo Robots
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And so it begins...

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Will it really do windows?

Can it really mop a floor or scrub a tub or put the dishes away out of the dishwasher?

If so, call me when it's ready.

:Puzzled1:
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Yes, but by buying it you auto accept the terms and agreements-- which allows Amazon to record everything
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doesn't SOUND top secret....
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hesright
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doesn't SOUND top secret....
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Bloomberg isn't known for employing the best copy writers abduct
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I fight the future but love our Roomba. It isnt cloud connected.

I despise cloud connected and Amazon will want this thing cloud connected and reporting in.
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Re: Amazon Has a Top-Secret Plan to Build Home Robots
Daily Mail:
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It's not completely clear what the robot would do, but the project title Vesta gives some clues, because it's named after the Roman goddess of the hearth, home and family.

People working on the project say that the Vesta robot could serve as a 'mobile Alexa' that follows consumers around to parts of their home where they don't have an Alexa-enabled device, Bloomberg noted.

Amazon is expected to test the Vesta robot among employees by the end of 2018, but consumers could get their hands on the device as soon as 2019.

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According to the report, while Vesta’s exact purpose is not yet fully known, signs point to it acting as a mobile AI assistant, providing aid by accompanying users to places in their homes that don’t have Alexa devices. Vesta prototypes can apparently navigate through homes using autonomous car technologies such as cameras and computer vision, though the robots’ sizes and locomotion systems are not specified. Amazon’s Lab126 consumer hardware R&D division has hired robotics industry mechanical engineers to aid in the project and is still hiring sensor engineers and robotics software engineers.
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If the robots can't clean the house then there is absolutely no use for them other than to annoy the fuck out of people.
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Lots of morans will paying big bucks of their own money for the very same equipment used to spy on them...

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What kind of fools buy this crap? Alexa and shite like this is only for the most stupid of people.
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I thought US-Robotics was supposed to come back to life for the robot take-over...
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What kind of fools buy this crap? Alexa and shite like this is only for the most stupid of people.
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From what I can tell those not interested in having this sort of tech in our homes are quickly becoming the Minority!
Louis in Richmond
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I fight the future but love our Roomba. It isnt cloud connected.

I despise cloud connected and Amazon will want this thing cloud connected and reporting in.
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Thank you for reminding me of this...


Until your military service has required you neutralize enemy combatants and invaders in the defense of your country,
don't presume to tell us that have defended you that you don't support every shot we fired to eliminate that enemy.
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I fight the future but love our Roomba. It isnt cloud connected.

I despise cloud connected and Amazon will want this thing cloud connected and reporting in.
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Exactly.

I have enough old Roombas now that I am planning on using one of the working ones to make a Moomba, one which will mop the kitchen floor and cost me nothing but the price of glue.
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But will they tolerate cats?


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What kind of fools buy this crap? Alexa and shite like this is only for the most stupid of people.
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From what I can tell those not interested in having this sort of tech in our homes are quickly becoming the Minority!
 Quoting: CallHerVesta 74061450


No, the majority of homes are still not connected to some sort of AI assistant, many are still without even internet. I know my parents aren't, their friends aren't, majority of their neighbors aren't. When your life is a little more simple and you've lived your entire life without it, there simply isn't a desire to get it.

Possibly in the younger generation it will be a majority, but I'm 36 and we've not allowed it in our home and never will, and my kids aren't being exposed to it. They will make the choice later in life obviously, but they'll be well versed in the positives and negatives of this sort of technology and they can make an educated choice on whether they wish to destroy their privacy as adults.
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