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Amazon discontinues security robot for small businesses

AuthorZora Lin

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PublishedJuly 4, 2024

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OUR TAKE When Amazon launches Astro for Business in November last year, it says the security solution combines robotics, intelligent security and AI to enable smes to monitor their business 24/7 even from home, including real-time views, remote controls and two-way calling capabilities. –Zora Lin, BTW reporter According to a report by Reuters on Wednesday, Amazon stops production of a security robot designed for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBS) just 8 months after its launch to focus on home robots.

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According to the report, Amazon launches the Amazon Astro home robot in 2021 and then expands it to business customers in November 2023 under the name Astro for business. “In order to accelerate our progress and ongoing research to make Astro the best home robot, we have decided to phase down our support for Astro for Business,” an Amazon spokesperson says in the report. “In the coming weeks, Amazon will refund customers who purchased Amazon Astro for Business devices in full with their original payment method,” the product page says. Also read: Amazon offers double credit to startups built on AWS

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Amazon’s Astro for Business, a security robot designed for SMBS, stops production and focuses on the field of home robots.
In the coming weeks, Amazon will refund customers who purchased Amazon Astro for Business devices in full with their original payment method.