Awesome Tips Amazon Astro: Unboxing and First Impressions
A meet and greet with Amazon’s helper bot.
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A meet and greet with Amazon’s helper bot.
See Astro here:
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We unbox Amazon’s Astro and give it a tour of the smart home. Can it live up to the hype? Is it an exciting leap forward or a surveillance nightmare? Here’s what we thought after the setup process and a day of testing.
0:00 Intro
0:18 Unboxing
4:04 Setup
5:18 Mapping the floor
7:00 Playing with Astro
11:04 Day 1 Impressions
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I love the idea of a house robot. But back in reality, it’s full of corporate surveillance for targeted advertising, and any personality it has is pre scripted gimmicks that get boring 5 min after doing them.
I would die if it fell down the stairs 😅😅
So if you rearrange furniture does he tweak out 😅
I've seen some dumb shit people buy but this useless 1000 dollar robot takes the cake. So stupid
To be Fair. Even CIA Agents get constantly stalked too just to make sure they don't share info.
Uncle Terry is my robot, let’s roll
No thanks, seeing what my echo devices have become over the years I prefer my Amazon devices stationary. Give this a few months and it will chase you around the house showing you ads
Was hoping to see an I.robot reference or joke …
They're watching you
Had mine a week. That's a 162 watt charger, by the way. Owning a robot makes my Star Wars fantasy complete. I only need a bigger house for us to live together, now.
Amazon wants to keep its eye on everything we do and say…that's a fact!
Thanks, but NO thanks, you can keep your spy-bot Mr stinky Jeff Quesos!
Not smart enough. Lol. It should clean. And give treats. Throw balls for pets lol
All you need to do to enjoy this product is give up any and all sense of privacy.
These things are going to have hands and all within a couple years.
It will be a perfect product for and on Amazon.
So it's basically a Roomba, but they replaced the vacuum part with a cup holder. I want to be excited about this, but the only two useful features are that you can make it into a delivery boy or an overpriced security cam on wheels.
looks like invasion of privacy.
So it's a $1000 robot that did beer run and useless things. What happened to the drone?
So, for a thousand bucks you get a dumb pet dog which can deliver beers 😂😂
Here we have a new Dalek’s version. Extermination extermination.
sounds like a pet lol
It's capabilities are lame.
My Roomba cost less and does more 😂
they should do a smart vacuum
This seems more like a massive invasion of privacy and a deep state monitoring tool than a cutesy home safety robot but then I am wearing a tinfoil hat
it looks cool Im still on the fence on if I want to spend $1000 on this. I just got my invite yesterday.
This gets me excited for the future but scares me at the same time.
Things really haven't changed much for two wheeled "robots" that "patrol" (snoop) around your house. You have little storage bins or trays that affixed by some person to deliver foods, drinks, whatever some person chooses to place in or on the bin/tray. It can't really do anything useful for the owner. One thousand dollars to get an R/C toy with some motion and ultrasonic sensors? With a tablet for a "face"? This overpriced spy is a tripping hazard. An intruder sees this and they've disable it by kicking it across the room. Or, knowing how much they cost they steal it.
Without Wi-Fi this thing is even more useless.
I remember the 1980s and 1990s had similar "robots" except some of those actually had a telescopic robotic arm that could at least manipulate and grasp things. Others had 6-8 legs and could use them to press buttons on elevators, had stereo camera vision, had microphones, could walk up and down stairs, could climb into or out of the tail bed of a pickup truck, and could be fitted with arms to manipulate and interact with their surroundings. This particular robot was used to monitor radioactive accident sites, to control valves and such, and to report back to the home office. It was semi-autonomous but had full remote control operations too.
What a waste of money
Amazon is a Surveillance Company first and foremost. They are watching everything 👁️
I want this
Looks like an expensive toy and nothing more. All the tech heads will get it I’m sure and then I’m 3 months it will be off in some corner with dead batteries because the owner will have gotten over the, “new shiney”.
Spy bot
I’ve never seen your videos before but I was smiling right away at your energy! Very fun and informative. Astro is adorable but… *mutes Astro’s mic* seems pretty useless.
We do be approaching tyranny and atrocities beyond anything that has ever happened before and people are stupid enough to buy this garbage because it looks cool.
This might struggle to deal with my dog
I’d be more likely to purchase Astro if it could literally get the drink out of the fridge for me and then deliver it. You basically need a second person to grab the drink and place it in Astro’s cup holder for it to work. It’s kind of useless. It’s just an Alexa with wheels. What’s the point?
When our robot overlords see these ancient butlers, they're gonna be pissssssed.
Astro deduced from the amount of time which you spend at the toilet that you should buy Amazon fibre cereal Bars
Great…
An Imperial Probe Droid masked as a cute little robot.
Walle mo robot irl
i wait until R2D2 comes on the market 🤣😂😎
how I buy it
Wall-e future? here we come!
I can tell u voted for Biden
Problem is i live by myself, unless this robot would open the refrigerator and grab me a cold one — i aint buyin. 😡 hehe cool tech though 😉
Does it still work without internet?
Useless $1000 toy