Amazon Reportedly Developing Home Robots

Under a supposed codename Project Vesta, Amazon’s R&D subsidiary company Lab 126 is said to be developing home robots for sales as early as 2019. Robotics is a high-profile agenda at Amazon – there are currently vacancies for 60 robotics roles at the company. With the investments made into Alexa and artificial intelligence, there is scope for a home robot to potentially have features such as companionship and empathic AI (emotion detection). Oh and it should be able to handle the vacuum cleaning…