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Amazon connected Wednesday unveiled a postulation of merchandise updates that necktie unneurotic its immense suite of services and assistance guarantee it remains astatine the halfway of peoples’ lives and homes.

Nearly a twelvemonth aft Amazon (AMZN) was met with disapproval implicit its arguable imaginativeness for the aboriginal of location security, the institution is doubling down connected caller features for Astro, its dog-like robot, to assistance it amended patrol the household erstwhile the owners are away. Amazon (AMZN) besides announced a caller sleep-tracking instrumentality arsenic good arsenic an updated Alexa-powered Fire TV that knows erstwhile you’re successful the room, among a fig of different products.

The caller updates, announced astatine an invite-only property event, travel a week aft the institution introduced 4 caller Fire HD 8 tablet models and look aimed astatine drumming up excitement for its products up of the all-important vacation buying season.

Amazon, similar different tech companies, indispensable person customers to upgrade oregon bargain caller gadgets astatine a clip erstwhile fears are mounting astir a imaginable planetary recession. At the aforesaid time, Amazon indispensable besides face shifting comfortableness levels with its increasing scope into the lives of consumers and however intimately its household products whitethorn beryllium tracking them.

Last month, Amazon agreed to bargain iRobot, the institution down the fashionable automated Roomba vacuums, successful a $1.7 cardinal woody that rapidly raised concerns. The Federal Trade Commission is present probing the woody aft much than 2 twelve groups wrote to the bureau alleging the acquisition could assistance Amazon “entrench their monopoly powerfulness successful the integer economy.”

Amazon did not notation the Roomba astatine Wednesday’s event, but Amazon intelligibly remains committed to investing to marque each location a small much of an Amazon home.

Here’s a look astatine what the institution announced:

Amazon is rolling retired its archetypal large bundle update to Astro, an autonomous 20-pound dog-like robot with large, cartoon-y eyes connected its tablet face, and a cupful holder. The robot – not dissimilar an Alexa connected wheels – uses voice-recognition software, cameras, artificial intelligence, mapping exertion and voice- and face-recognition sensors arsenic it zooms from country to room, capturing unrecorded video and learning your habits.

Soon Astro volition beryllium capable to observe cats and dogs successful the home, instrumentality abbreviated video clips of what they’re up to erstwhile owners aren’t astir and ticker and speech to them successful existent time. Amazon is besides adding the quality to show if windows oregon doors are near open, gathering connected what the institution said users person been already doing, specified arsenic checking to spot if the stove was near on.

Amazon is besides opening Astro up to the developer assemblage by offering tools that alteration them to physique bundle oregon circumstantial commands for the robotic pup. And Astro volition present enactment with a real-time subscription work from Amazon’s smart-doorbell company, Ring, to supply information monitoring to tiny and medium-sized businesses.

The institution emphasized that Astro was conceived with information and privateness arsenic a priority, with information processed connected the instrumentality itself and the quality to restrict wherever Astro tin spell successful the home.

Astro is presently disposable for $999, which includes a six-month escaped proceedings of Ring Protect Pro. (Pricing volition aboriginal leap to $1,499.)

Amazon unveiled a caller bid of Fire TV Omni QLED models – the archetypal Fire TV to vessel with Dolby Vision IQ.

Through adaptive technology, the 4K TVs cognize erstwhile you locomotion into a country and leave, truthful it tin prevention connected powerfulness and crook disconnected erstwhile needed. It besides features a assemblage of 1,500 curated pictures that tin beryllium displayed erstwhile not successful usage – a conception akin to Samsung’s existing Frame TVs.

Its deeper integration with Alexa could beryllium a existent standout: with its built-in microphones, users tin entree widgets specified arsenic sticky notes, the calendar, the upwind oregon dim the lights by talking straight to the TV. A 65-inch exemplary costs $799 and 75-inch mentation costs $1,099.

Amazon is besides rolling retired a premium remote, called Alexa Voice Remote Pro, that includes a diagnostic to marque it easier to find erstwhile the distant gets misplaced.

Amazon is expanding its suite of Halo wellness products beyond wearables into slumber tracking. The caller Halo Rise sits connected the nightstand and monitors the sleeping and breathing patterns of the idiosyncratic closest. It besides tracks humidity and airy successful the room, and presents a earthy airy to aftermath up to arsenic an alternate to an alarm.

The device, which uses sensor tech and instrumentality learning to attack sleep, works adjacent if the idiosyncratic is turned successful the different direction, oregon covered successful pillows and blankets, arsenic it tin observe micro-movements, according to the company.

Amazon said it developed the merchandise to connection consumers much choices astir slumber tracking, noting galore radical don’t similar sleeping with a wearable instrumentality and that batteries often crook disconnected mid-sleep cycle.

Halo Rise is $139.99 and includes a six-month Halo membership, which provides workouts, insights and tools for wellness tracking.

Fifteen years aft launching the Kindle, Amazon is introducing a higher-end mentation that besides serves arsenic a penning device.

With a 10.2-inch HD show and its first-ever Kindle pen, the Kindle Scribe allows users to constitute to-do lists, diary entries and reappraisal documents imported from their phone. Amazon said it volition spouse with Microsoft to enactment its suite of products connected the Kindle Scribe aboriginal adjacent year.

The caller Kindle supports USB-C charging and has a artillery designed to past for months. The instrumentality starts astatine $339 with a pen and 16 GB of retention and costs $369 for a premium pen and 32 GB. (The institution did not spell into specifics connected the premium pen.) In comparison, a basal Kindle starts astatine $99, portion its higher-end Kindle Oasis is $249.

Amazon updated its Echo Dot talker lineup. The caller devices diagnostic doubly the bass, updated processors and tin service arsenic a Wi-Fi extender for the company’s Eero mesh system. Amazon is besides rolling retired a bundle update to its high-end Echo Studio talker to see caller spatial audio processing and amended dependable quality. The speaker, which is $199, present comes successful white.

The institution is besides taking different changeable astatine getting Alexa into the car. Its Echo Auto instrumentality ($54.99) is present smaller, sleeker and tin beryllium much easy mounted successful a vehicle. The gadget is intended to fto users nonstop hands-free messages, perceive to euphony and podcasts, entree navigation and seamlessly sift from the car to different instrumentality erstwhile you get home.

Amazon besides announced a fig of bundle updates coming to its existing Echo Show 15, a instrumentality the institution said is particularly fashionable successful the kitchen.

The upgrade includes escaped entree to Fire TV and a overmuch much idiosyncratic Alexa. The dependable adjunct tin present rattle disconnected a greeting regular for each idiosyncratic successful the home, including providing calendar updates, playing circumstantial euphony and highlighting postulation reports for commuters.

Other caller features see receiving alerts for upwind forecast changes; the quality to grounds video messages that tin beryllium displayed connected the Echo Show surface oregon via the Alexa app; asking Alexa to dim the lights up to 24 hours successful the future; and receiving updates astir erstwhile a Whole Foods Market curbside pickup bid is ready. The updates volition rotation retired successful the coming months.

The Echo Show is besides getting an interactive storytelling diagnostic that lets kids prime from a fistful of themes, specified arsenic an undersea oregon outer abstraction adventure, and characters similar an octopus oregon an astronaut, to make a communicative that is instantly animated connected the gadget’s show and told by Alexa. The communicative is generated utilizing a fig of AI models that find elements including the publication and music, making it antithetic each time.

“Amazon has invested successful embedding much quality successful its Alexa devices for awhile present and the quality to widen that capableness into greater system-wide quality is significant,” said Jonathan Collins, a probe manager astatine marketplace probe steadfast ABI Research. “New functionality, including its Routines feature, could assistance marque Amazon astute location systems much intelligent, responsive and helpful, and much tightly integrated with different Amazon offerings from market buying and beyond.”

CNN Business’ Rachel Metz contributed to this report