Amazon’s secret home robot Vesta reportedly in ‘late-prototype stage’ of development
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon appears to have reached the late-prototype stage" in the creation of its secretive home robot codenamed Vesta, claims a new report from Insider. The device has been under development for around four years and now has more than 800 employees working on it, says the publication. If the robot launches, it will be one of Amazon's biggest and most ambitious new products, in the mold of the Echo, Kindle, and Fire Phone.
Indeed, it's comparisons to the latter device, Amazon's failed smartphone project, that seems to be concerning some of those involved in Vesta's development. People are very skeptical - we're worried it could turn into another Fire Phone," one of six anonymous sources cited by Insider as directly involved in the...