Amazon Echo

Despite its chatty demeanor, Amazon's Alexa personal assistant has, up until now, remained faceless. That has now changed courtesy of a family focused robot by the name of Yumi, which manufacturer Omate says is the first robot to be powered by the artificial intelligence (AI) platform.

How does the newly released music-streaming service Amazon Music Unlimited compare to industry leader Spotify? We put the services side by side to find out.

Vivint is a fully serviced home security system that now boasts Amazon Echo integration, allowing parts of the system to be controlled simply by asking Amazon's virtual assistant, Alexa, for help.​ We've been putting the system through its paces.

A third-party app called Josh builds upon Alexa to make Amazon's Echo and other voice-controlled systems even more powerful. ​

Throughout the 20th century, visions of the future imagined smart homes that could listen and respond to all our requests using voice. Amazon's Alexa is making that one-time futuristic vision of the voice-controlled smart home a reality.

Mario Queiroz, Google's Vice President of product management unveiled Google Home, one of the expected announcements at today's I/O event. Will it be an Echo killer?​

We've spent a few weeks with the battery-powered version of the original Alexa device, the Echo, and have this review.

A California developer hacked together a way to command his Tesla Model S to pull itself out of his garage using an Amazon Echo.

​Amazon wants to make it easier to add its voice-controlled assistant, Alexa, to any room in the home by offering a pair of new, smaller versions of Amazon Echo, the original tabletop Bluetooth speaker inhabited by Alexa.