Leaked Documents Show How Amazon’s Astro Robot Tracks Everything You Do
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Leaked meetings show the robot will heavily rely on facial recognition and user behavior, but sources who worked on Astro say the robot is flawed.

Follows you around the house in order to build a profile on you. Fucking spooky man. It will also "throw itself down a flight of stairs if presented an opportunity" though, so maybe start getting some steps in if you find yourself suddenly being stalked by this thing in a tech bros house. Or grab it by its antenna and shove it in a closet. Maybe both :think-about-it: .

  • baby_trump [undecided]
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    3 years ago

    I'm not excusing amazon for making this thing but if you buy one you're kinda getting what you deserve imo

    • MerryChristmas [any]
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      3 years ago

      You say that now, but we'll see who's laughing when the price drops and your mom gets you one for Christmas and you don't want to ruin the holiday with another one of your rants about capitalism so you quietly say thank you and take it home to shove in a drawer.

      • baby_trump [undecided]
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        3 years ago

        I think I'd be more concerned with how and why my mom is dropping a g on christmas gifts lmao

        • MerryChristmas [any]
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          3 years ago

          I'm just thinking of those Alexa devices... Amazon brings the price down around the holidays to the point where they must be losing money on the individual units. Pretty much everyone I know has gotten one as a gift at some point.