Amazon's new Alexa-based robot is available for preorder. Here's what we've discovered about how Astro works, when you can get it and what it means for privacy. Shelby Brown (she/her/hers) is an ...

We got to see Amazon’s latest gadget early — it’s the long-rumored robot. We spent about 50 minutes with Astro. Like robots of the past (some have fizzled out; others have gone extinct like Anki’s ...

WordPress is losing market share, and over 10% of its sites are abandoned. Astro is getting downloaded 2.5 million times per ...

Amazon's new robot helper Astro is available to buy by invite only for $1,000. I got my hands on one to test for over two weeks -- and I needed every minute of that time. Astro works as a smart ...

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Amazon’s household robot is exactly what I expected, but it’s not what I wanted and it definitely isn ...