5 big features Amazon's home robot will likely have

Under codename Project Vesta, Amazon's Lab126 is reportedly making a home robot. Tests in employees' homes could begin in the coming months, and sales of an Amazon robot may begin as early as 2019. Anonymous sources speaking with Bloomberg today provided no details about what the domestic robot will look like or how it will function, but Amazon has made a series of big investments in AI in recent years, and if that same toolbox is being used for Project Vesta, there are certain features and machine intelligence we can expect from an Amazon robot. In late 2017, Alexa chief scientist Rohit Prasad spoke with VentureBeat and other news outlets about the evolution of Alexa and the company's future plans. At that time, Prasad talked about how Amazon is experimenting with the detection of a user's emotional state based on analysis of voice recordings collected each time you have an exchange with an Alexa-enabled device.