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Amazon has introduced a new version of its Echo Studio smart speaker that includes a built-in camera, enabling Alexa to visually perceive its surroundings. This marks a shift from Amazon's previous audio-only Echo Studio design toward a device with visual sensing capability.
Amazon unveiled five new smart home products, including two new device categories: the $200 Echo Time alarm clock/hub and the $230 Alexa Photo Frame. It also introduced an upgraded $100 Echo Dot, a $250 Echo Studio with a built-in Home Camera, and a redesigned $500 Echo Show 16 available for preorder with December shipping. Amazon additionally announced Alexa Home Map, a feature that generates 3D interactive maps of a home's interior and exterior.
Amazon unveiled the Echo Time, a camera-free smart clock priced at $200 that uses ambient sensors to detect sleep stages and wake users within a 10-to-60-minute window around their set alarm. It runs on Alexa+ and has received the National Sleep Foundation's SleepMark designation, with a kids' version offering parent-controlled sleep schedules.
Amazon has updated its Echo smart speaker lineup, giving the Echo Dot a built-in smart home hub and Wi-Fi extender, and introducing a $250 Echo Studio with Home Camera that adds live video monitoring. A camera-free Echo Studio remains available, and the camera version lets Alexa use visual recognition to identify objects like board games or cereal boxes to assist users.
Amazon announced the Alexa Home Map, a new interface that renders a home as an interactive 3D blueprint with animated icons for connected devices like lights and speakers placed where they physically sit. The map also integrates with outdoor security cameras to depict vehicles, pedestrians and weather conditions like rain or snow in real time, using stylized visualizations rather than photorealistic imagery.
Amazon announced a wave of new and updated Echo devices, including the Echo Time smart alarm clock, the Alexa Smart Frame for displaying photos and answering questions via AI, an updated Echo Show 16, refreshed Echo speakers, and a new Echo Studio speaker that includes a camera.
Amazon has released the Echo Studio with Home Camera, an updated version of its high-end smart speaker that now includes a built-in camera for video monitoring and calls. The device retains the original Echo Studio's Dolby Atmos sound system and Alexa+ features, adding new audio tools called Advanced Room Adaptation and Adaptive Volume. It costs $250, $30 more than the camera-free Echo Studio, which remains on sale at $220.
Amazon unveiled the Echo Time, its first smart alarm clock, priced at $200 and shipping in December. The device features a 3.2-inch customizable display, adaptive lighting for wake and sleep routines, and an optional AI mode that uses motion and breathing sensors to delay or adjust alarms within a 60-minute window based on sleep depth. It omits cameras and comes in kid-focused versions with parental controls, part of a broader rollout that included a new Echo Show, Echo Studio and Amazon's first smart picture frame.
Amazon devices chief Panos Panay presented new Echo hardware, including an Echo Show 16 smart display and an Echo Studio with Home Camera, at a press event in New York. He also showed upcoming Alexa software features such as dedicated home screens, a 3D smart-home map view, and meal planning, which will debut on the Show 16 before reaching older Echo Show models.
Amazon has begun shipping most of the new Echo devices it recently announced, among them a bedside alarm clock built around sleep tracking rather than a camera. The device uses ultrasound to detect sleep stages and can trigger smart alarms timed to ease users awake, an optional feature users can turn off.
Amazon unveiled the Echo Time, a new smart alarm clock with a 3.2-inch round touchscreen and a sleep-sensing feature designed to wake users during an optimal point in their sleep cycle. The device, priced at $199.99 and available for order now, lets users set alarms directly via touchscreen rather than voice, and keeps the clock face visible as a priority display even while handling other Alexa functions.
A flashing yellow light on an Amazon Echo device signals that Alexa has a pending message or notification, a feature introduced in 2017. Users can clear it by asking Alexa questions like 'What notifications do I have?' and can navigate multiple alerts using commands such as 'next' or 'repeat'.