Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. News and opinion about video games, television, movies and the internet. While everyone was hoping that Sony’s Astro Bot would be ...

Amazon's Astro is a landmark in the field of consumer robots. We're testing it right now as we prepare to give it a full review, but it doesn't actually have to be good to be important. Just the fact ...

The tech giant’s first foray into home robotics violates a key tech product tenet: Don’t be a nuisance. Amazon Astro is the rare tech product that makes a point of getting in your way. For the past ...

Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is changing daily life and how to make the most of it. This includes writing about consumer AI products and their real-world impact, from ...

The world loves Astro Bot, and now it's a question of how PlayStation and the industry respond to its glowing praise. Reading time 4 minutes It ain’t a December without the Game Awards, Geoff Keighley ...

What do you get when you mix Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant with an Echo Show tablet, give it a hefty dose of artificial intelligence, integrate it all with Ring’s home security system, and let it ...

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 ...

Astro, a babylike robot designed to show off the power of PlayStation hardware, has graduated to his own full-length adventure game. By Annie Aguiar If PlayStation’s next big character succeeds, it ...

About 150 PlayStation characters, including the dragon Spyro and the cylinder-headed prince from Katamari Damacy, make appearances in a paean to Sony’s legacy. By Harold Goldberg Astro Bot, a ...

One of the biggest announcements during last week's PlayStation State of Play livestream was Astro Bot, the full-fledged sequel to the excellent Astro's Playroom that comes preinstalled on PS5. Just ...