Prime Highlight:
- Narwal launched its Flow 2 robot vacuum, featuring AI-powered room mapping, object recognition, and smart cleaning modes for pets, babies, and valuables.
- The company aims to make home cleaning safer, more efficient, and adaptiveusing advanced AI and smart sensors.
Key Facts
- Flow 2 uses two 1080p RGB cameraswith a 136-degree view, processes data on-device, and uploads unrecognized objects to the cloud to improve learning.
- The vacuum includes four cleaning modes, mop washing, hot water cleaning, and specialized modes for pet care, baby care, and AI floor tagging.
Background:
Amazon announced the launch of Alexa.com, bringing its upgraded AI assistant, Alexa+, to the web for the first time. The announcement was made at the start of CES 2026 in Las Vegas. The new site will initially be available to Alexa+ Early Access users who sign in with their Amazon accounts.
With this move, Amazon plans to bring Alexa to devices beyond smart speakers and screens. While the company has sold more than 600 million Alexa-enabled devices worldwide, it believes that to compete with AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini, Alexa+ must work across phones, browsers, and homes.
The company is also updating its Alexa mobile app. The app now opens with a chatbot-style interface, placing conversations at the centre of the experience while moving other features into the background.
On Alexa.com, users can ask Alexa+ to research topics, create content, or plan trips. Amazon is, however, positioning Alexa+ mainly as a family assistant. The service can manage calendars and to-do lists, control smart devices, make dinner bookings, add groceries to Amazon Fresh or Whole Foods carts, save recipes, and suggest movies for family nights.
Amazon has expanded Alexa+ integrations with partners such as Angi, Expedia, Square, and Yelp. These join existing services like OpenTable, Ticketmaster, Uber, and Thumbtack.
The website includes a navigation panel that gives quick access to key features such as thermostats, shopping lists, and calendars. Amazon is also encouraging users to upload documents, emails, and schedules so Alexa+ can act as a home information hub.
Daniel Rausch, Amazon’s vice-president for Alexa and Echo, said users now have two to three times more conversations with Alexa+ than with the original assistant. He added that shopping through Alexa has tripled, and recipe use has increased fivefold.
Amazon said most Alexa devices now support Alexa+, and customer opt-out rates remain very low despite some online criticism.
