Amazon’s Astro: Pros & Cons, Specifications and how it will performs.

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What are the Amazon Astro Pros & Cons?

=>Amazon Astro: Pros

1. Good smart security / pet camera
2. Impressive motion / navigation skills
3. Handy as a portable Echo Show
4. Kind of cute
5. Self-charging
6. Works with Alexa Routines

=>Amazon Astro: Cons

1. Too much Alexa, not enough Astro
2. Subscription required for some features
3. Can only map one floor
4. No arms
5. $1,000 (or $1,450 once it’s publicly available)

=>What Amazon Astro will Perform?

1. The Astro, in contrast, knows what personal space is, always maintaining a respectable distance from people, pets, backpacks, and any other sizable stuff that happens to be lying on the floor in its path.
2. Instead of barreling into things, it will reroute or just wait to be rescued if there’s no way out.
3. The Astro is also really fast, able to zip around the house at a top speed of a little over 2mph (1 meter per second), much faster than any robot vac can manage.
4. Basically, its array of navigation and obstacle sensors seem to disregard anything under a couple of inches high.
5. The Astro navigates some common household obstacles in its mission to deliver dog treats from the Furbo treat camera in its cargo hold.
6. The Astro does use a similar navigation and mapping technology to its vacuum-enabled cousins, but cleaning isn’t its purpose.
7. Instead, its main role is to just be there when you need it.
8. When it’s got nothing to do, it finds a spot to hang out where it thinks it will be most helpful.
9. When its battery gets low, it goes to its charger.
10. This will one become your favorite features of the Astro it’s a battery-powered device that you never have to remember to charge, and it didn’t run out of juice once in the month you will used it.
11. The Astro is essentially an Echo smart display on wheels with some new expressions and a few cute robot noises.
12. Astro’s face is a 10-inch Echo Show-style touchscreen mounted onto a 12-inch pair of wheels.
13. A small cargo area brings up the rear, which features a 15W USB-C port, handy for charging a phone or tablet or powering some Astro accessories (such as Furbo Dog Camera).
14. There’s a 5-megapixel camera built into the screen and a 12-megapixel camera that pops out of the top of the bot, extending on a somewhat perilous-looking periscope so the Astro can get a better look at something.
15. The familiar Echo speaker control buttons for volume and muting the microphones and camera(s) are here.
16. The mute button shuts down the Astro’s mobility and navigation sensors and disables the cameras and microphones.
17. The periscope camera extends to a height of about 44 inches from the floor.
18. Like a regular Echo smart display, you can ask Astro to play music, set timers, stream an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Hulu, lock the front door, or call mom for a video chat.
19. As well as thing you are roaming around the house picking up shoes, making dinner, and feeding the dog, the Astro can come with you, keeping you the entertained or chatting to my mom on a video call.
20. And you will also surprisingly handy to have it roll up beside you when you will sitting on the couch, giving you the easy access to music or movies on a hands-free, somewhat personal device.