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Hello and welcome to the big technology podcast, a show for cool-headed, nuanced conversation of the tech world and beyond.

Well, Amazon has a robot.

It's a really weird-looking thing.

But knowing Amazon's track record, everyone's going to say it's terrible, and then they're

going to sell thousands upon thousands of them, if not millions of them.

That's my prediction anyway.

But let's actually speak to someone who knows what she's talking about on this subject.

She's the senior writer at Wired and the coast of the Gadget Lab podcast. Lowering Good, it's been a long time coming. Welcome to this show.

It's been a long time, Alex. I've just been waiting for my invite to the big technology podcast. I'm thrilled to finally be joining you.

It's great to have you here. You're really fresh out of this Amazon event, which is awesome,

so we can sort of get into the details. So first of all, just the obvious question,

why is Amazon building a robot? Well, Amazon has actually been building or acquiring

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