Amazon’s Robot: Evil Wall-E?

And why I’ll NEVER have one in my home.

Randy Cassingham
True Uncommon Sense
5 min readOct 4, 2021

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Last Week Amazon Unveiled its newest bit of hardware, a “personal robot” on wheels armed with a screen, cameras, and their Echo (aka Alexa) “smart” speaker built in. The $999 machine (for “early invitees,” $1,499 when fully released), says Gizmodo, “finally answers the question: ‘What if Wall-E were real, evil, and knew how to beatbox?’”

Wheeled robot on floor.
Evil Wall-E — er, I mean, “Astro” the robot. (Photo: Amazon)

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