Amazon Astro for Business
2023 - 2024, 1 year old
A roving security-guard version of Amazon's Astro home robot, sold to small businesses.
Amazon launched Astro for Business in November 2023, repackaging its invite-only home robot as a 2,349-dollar autonomous patrol unit with a 60-dollar-per-month Astro Secure subscription and an optional 99-dollar Virtual Security Guard add-on. Reviewers questioned what a short, cargo-bay-equipped robot actually added over fixed cameras, and Amazon found the small-business market thin. On July 3, 2024, the company told customers the program would end, offered full refunds plus a 300-dollar credit, and bricked the units on September 25, 2024, after seven months of service. Amazon said it would refocus on the consumer Astro, which itself remains invite-only.
- Founded
- 2023-11
- Shut down
- 2024-09-25
- Funding raised
- Undisclosed
- Years alive
- 1
- Founders
- Amazon