---
title: "New Alexa Device Scans Your Body Using Radar"
description: "Amazon is reportedly developing a new Alexa-enabled device capable of tracking your breathing for signs of sleep apnea while you snooze. The device can sit on a nightstand and measure your breathing using a no-contact radar system, sources close to the project told Business Insider. There aren’t yet many details on what the final product […]"
date: "2021-01-05"
modified: "2021-01-05"
authors:
  - name: "Dan Robitzski"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/danrobitzski"
url: "https://futurism.com/neoscope/alexa-device-scans-body-radar"
categories:
  - "Health & Medicine"
  - "Prosthetics and Devices"
tags:
  - "Alexa"
  - "Amazon"
  - "medicine"
  - "sleep apnea"
---

# New Alexa Device Scans Your Body Using Radar

![Amazon is reportedly developing a device, codenamed "Brahms" that uses radar to track your breathing and monitor for sleep apnea.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/alexa-device-radar-sleep-apnea.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: Amazon/Victor Tangermann\</em\>*

Amazon is reportedly developing a new Alexa-enabled device capable of tracking your breathing for signs of sleep apnea while you snooze.

The device can sit on a nightstand and measure your breathing using a no-contact radar system, [sources close to the project told *Business Insider*](<https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-plans-a-new-sleep-apnea-device-powered-by-alexa-2021-1>).

There aren't yet many details on what the final product will look like, but *BI* reports that it's been given the internal codename "Brahms," after the composer Johannes Brahms, who wrote a [famous lullaby](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t894eGoymio>) and [likely had sleep apnea](<https://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/sleep-apnea/news/20000713/was-lullaby-composer-sorehead-from-lack-of-sleep>) during his life.

One of the sources told *BI* that Brahms currently exists as a prototype — a hexagon-shaped device propped up on a wire base — but that they expect it to eventually connect and transmit the health data it records to other Alexa-enabled Amazon devices. Amazon's ultimate goal, one of the sources said, is to use its AI prowess to develop a comprehensive sleep analysis system that monitors other disorders in addition to sleep apnea.

An Amazon spokesperson declined to comment to *BI*, leaving an aura of mystery around the company's [plans for the healthcare industry](<https://futurism.com/neoscope/is-amazon-moving-forward-with-plans-to-sell-medicine-online>). On Monday, Amazon shut down Haven, a short-lived firm it launched with JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway that was expected to drive down the costs of employee healthcare, [according to *CNBC*](<https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/04/haven-the-amazon-berkshire-jpmorgan-venture-to-disrupt-healthcare-is-disbanding-after-3-years.html>).

But as *BI* notes, Amazon still has other irons in the fire when it comes to healthcare — both in terms of its own internal primary care service and other medical wearables and sleep trackers. So while Haven didn't last long, it doesn’t seem like Amazon is [retreating from the healthcare space](<https://futurism.com/neoscope/pillpack-amazon-prescription-drugs>) any time soon.

## Author
Dan Robitzki is a senior reporter for Futurism, where he likes to cover AI, tech ethics, and medicine. He spends his extra time fencing and streaming games from Los Angeles, California.

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