Amazon Is Said to Be Working on Another Big Bet: Home Robots

Prototypes can navigate from room to room like driverless cars
Company hopes to start testing bots in homes later this year

Bloomberg’s Gerritt DeVynck reports on how Amazon may be trying to build a robot for the home.(Source: Bloomberg)

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By Mark Gurman and Brad Stone

April 23, 2018 at 7:00 AM EDT

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April 23, 2018 at 11:22 AM EDT

Ten years ago, Amazon introduced the Kindle and established the appeal of reading on a digital device. Four years ago, Jeff Bezos and company rolled out the Echo, prompting millions of people to start talking to a computer.

Now Amazon.com Inc. is working on another big bet: robots for the home.

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