> “For years, customers told us they wanted eyes in the places a fixed camera couldn’t reach, and peace of mind in the spots they’d never want one,” said Jamie Siminoff, founder and chief inventor of Ring.

By "customers" I'll just assume they mean the data brokers and law enforcement.

... Oh. So that's what they ended up doing with all the Amazon Astros.

Useless fuckin' brick of a robot. Never even got Alexa+, never gave us anything worthwhile with them, not even development or debug access. Last I knew they were just shipping them to customers to figure out how to do localized mapping for their Proteus drives in the warehouses as the final product.

https://www.aboutamazon.com/stories/amazon-robotics-autonomo...