Amazon has built a new team for a home robot, CNBC finds in job postings

A withdrawn job posting describes a robot that adapts to changing homes and moves autonomously near people; the product itself has not been announced.

Amazon has spent the past few months building a new team to develop a home robot, ithome.com reports, citing a CNBC analysis of the company's job postings ithome.com. A withdrawn engineer posting said the product would adapt to changing home environments and move autonomously around family members.

Earlier this year Amazon moved most of the Astro team to other roles and hired an MIT robotics specialist, LinkedIn profiles show. What the robot is and which tasks it will perform has not been disclosed.

Astro, priced at $1,450, was shown in autumn 2021, after Jeff Bezos asked device executives in 2017 to start work on a home robot. It was sold by invitation only to several thousand customers, and its business version, launched in 2023, ended within a year.