Amazon is cramming Alexa into household robot

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by Sindy Cator on April 23, 2018 at 5:06 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence, Gadgets

Amazon is reportedly developing a domestic robot. We’re still pretty far away from the robot butler era, but this indicates the possible arrival of the “Alexa, get me a beer” stage, and we can’t wait. Sources familiar with the project told Bloomberg the company plans to develop a domestic robot: Codenamed “Vesta,” after the Roman goddess of the hearth, home and family, the project is overseen by Gregg Zehr, who runs Amazon’s Lab126 hardware research and development division based in Sunnyvale, California. There isn’t any official information to go on yet. Amazon responded to requests for comment by saying it doesn’t…