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24 alternatives to Amazon Astro

Robot for Home Monitoring

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Amazon Astro launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Live control a robot running around my house▲162

   2016 · runmyrobot.com · its alternatives →

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   Google Home Hub▲133

   Control your connected home in one view

   2018 · store.google.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Google Home▲669

   Google's Alexa competitor, an in-home voice assistant

   2016 · home.google.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Samsung Ballie▲149

   A cute, personal robot from Samsung

   2024 · its alternatives →

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   Appbot Riley▲130

   Never leave your pets alone at home with this smart robot

   2017 · thepawkingdom.com · its alternatives →

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   Dobb·E – towards home robots with an open-source platform▲394

   Hi HN! Proud to share our open-source robot platform, Dobb·E, a home robot system that needs just 5 minutes of human teaching to learn new tasks. We've already taken Dobb·E to 10 different homes in New York, taught it 100+ tasks, and we are just getting started! I would love to hear your thoughts about this. Here are some more details, below (or see a Twitter thread with attached media: https://twitter.com/i/status/1729515379892826211 or https://nitter.net/i/status/1729515379892826211): We engineered Dobb·E to maximize efficiency, safety, and…

   2023 · dobb-e.com · its alternatives →

7. 7OR
   OK-Robot: open, modular home robot framework for pick-and-drop anywhere▲542

   Hi all, excited to share our latest work, OK-Robot, which is an open and modular framework to perform navigation and manipulation with a robot assistant in practically any homes without having to teach the robot anything new! You can simply unbox the target robot, install OK-Robot, give it a "scan" (think a 60 second iPhone video), and start asking the robot to move arbitrary things from A to B. We already tested it out in 10 home environments in New York city, and one environment each in Pittsburgh and Fremont. We based everything off of the current best machine learning models, and so…

   2024 · ok-robot.github.io · its alternatives →

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   Josh.ai▲133

   Control and automate your home from anywhere

   2016 · josh.ai · its alternatives →

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   Lucy▲201

   A smart robot that bends sunlight where you want it.

   2015 · preorderlucy.com · its alternatives →

10. 10HA
    Home automation and lighting control with Kinect▲98

    2011 · nitrogen.posterous.com · its alternatives →

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    NEO Gamma▲291

    Your humanoid assistant and companion for home.

    2025 · 1x.tech · its alternatives →

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    Build-a-Butler▲85

    Smart home app and bot creation as a service

    2017 · buildabutler-com.l.ink · its alternatives →

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    Robelf▲64

    A mobile monitor robot to keep an eye on your home & family

    2016 · indiegogo.com · its alternatives →

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    Duo▲412

    Personal AI computer for your home. Like JARVIS. 🗣.

    2017 · duo.computer · its alternatives →

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    Echo Dot by Amazon▲428

    Amazon's latest additions to the Echo family.

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Home Assistant▲217

    Open source home automation tools

    2016 · home-assistant.io · its alternatives →

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    Lighthouse▲136

    Home security camera that uses AI to ID people and pets

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    Alexa, Hire Me Some Smart Home Folks▲52

    Amazon has plans for smart home world domination

    2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →

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    Google Home▲55

    Google's Alexa competitor, an in-home voice assistant

    2018 · home.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Varram Pet Robot▲176

    Brainy companion for home alone pets

    2018 · indiegogo.com · its alternatives →

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    Lucy▲12

    A robot that fills your home with sunshine

    2016 · indiegogo.com · its alternatives →

22. 22AH
    A home environment sensor from a Raspberry Pi and an e-paper device▲55

    2014 · visionect-epaper.com · its alternatives →

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    Wonder for Google Home▲149

    Remember the things you easily forget

    2017 · wonder-bot.com · its alternatives →

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    Tali▲115

    Hands-free time tracking for Alexa and Google Assistant

    2018 · prhlcorp.com · its alternatives →

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