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: .

  • abc [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    instead of barking for five minutes like someone has kicked them when I get up to use the bathroom at 1:30am like my roommate's dog does, will this machine instead just call the cops/fire a lethal round into my skull from down the hallway?