The Verge reports on Amazon's release of "Astro," a home assistant robotics device. Combining elements of robotics, artificial intelligence, home monitoring and cloud services, Astro can obey commands, map a home's floor plan, recognize faces, play music, answer questions and conduct video calls. It can also monitor the home when the owner is not present. The product, however, has raised some data privacy concerns, such as when Astro is accessed by a third party. Electronic Frontier Foundation Policy Analyst Matthew Guariglia asked, "What would it see, what would it hear, and what could be done with that information?"