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In an acknowledgement that cracking the home robotics grocery is gruelling , Amazon is bringing its Astro robot to a decidedly more corporate interview .
The company todayannouncedAstro for Business , which repurposes Astro as a security measure robot for small- and medium - sized business customers . Astro for Business adds several new capabilities to Astro , including the ability to make multiple protection monitoring route and send alerts when the robot hear the sounds of smoke and atomic number 6 monoxide dismay or glass breaking .
“ [ T]raditional protection solutions can be too static or expensive for what patronage require . We think Astro for Business can avail with that , ” Anthony Robson , straits of product for Amazon Astro , enunciate in a canned statement .
Astro for Business is n’t precisely cheap , though , bulge at $ 2,349.99 — especially consider getting the full value out of the service require subscribing to additional plan .
To hold open video history and sync Astro with Ring dismay and motion detector , Astro for Business customer have to pay $ 20 per calendar month for Ring Protect Pro . Astro ’s patrolling and alert features , called Astro Secure , are n’t costless — they ’re $ 60 per calendar month on their own . Human agentive role support and monitoring is $ 99 per month , and requires subscription to Ring Protect Pro and Astro Secure .
Astro for Business — which is only useable in the U.S. at launch — does include a four - calendar month visitation of Ring Protect Pro and Astro Secure , but the toll will for sure sum up up .
Priced as high as it is , Astro for Business seems to be an attempt to extract what value Amazon can out of Astro , which was conspicuously absent from the company ’s annual devices and services display case this year . Amazon ’s VP of consumer robotics , Ken Washington , recently go , and Astro remains an invite - only productroughly two yearsafter its debut .
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“ Even Amazon ca n’t quite figure out what Astro is for , ” my confrere Hajewrotein an op - ed . Indeed .
