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Equipped with a touch screen, telescoping camera arm and wheels, the Astro is essentially a Ring camera and Echo Show built into a robot. (Video: Amazon, Photo: Amazon/Amazon)

Amazon’s newest products expand its surveillance inside the home

Amazon wants to be in every corner of your house, watching, listening and helping out

September 28, 2021 at 6:27 p.m. EDT
3 min
Amazon failed to make a viable smartphone, so it can’t compete with Google and Apple on their own turf. Instead, the company wants to dominate the home and is throwing everything against the wall to see what sticks, literally.  

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