CNBC June 29, 2022
Annie Palmer

Key Points

– Amazon and several startups showed off the latest in robotics at the e-commerce giant’s re:MARS conference in Las Vegas last week.

– Robots are increasingly in the home and elsewhere, but they can only do a few useful tasks.

– Amazon is expanding its team focused on consumer robotics and it says Astro won’t be its last home robot.

Electronics companies have for years paraded around flashy, futuristic prototypes of consumer robots. They’ve pointed to a not-too-distant future where people will have roaming robot helpers around their home that can do the dishes or even act as a personal masseuse. So far, few of those predictions have panned out, and they largely remain the stuff of science...

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