But while lots of smart-home devices can do all that, Kuri can recognize the people in your home,
and it even smiles when it sees a familiar face, thanks to HD cameras and facial recognition technology.
For other clues as to what Vesta could look like, if and when it ever launches,
a good model might be Kuri, the robot developed by Bosch internal startup
Mayfield Robotics which was shuttered a year ago and never made it to market.