Amazon welcomed guests to its biggest event of the year with a twerking robotic teddy bear that syncs with Alexa

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• $4 held $4 where it debuted new Echo smart speakers and other Alexa-enabled devices.
• Outside of the event at the company's Seattle headquarters, Amazon set up a table showing off its smart products, which $4 compatible with the Alexa voice assistant.
• The bear - made by a company called Gemmy - pairs with Amazon Echo devices, and twerks along to music, alarms, and timers.
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These days, everything from kitchen appliances to doorbells come with technologically savvy features and virtual voice assistants - including a plush, dancing teddy bear that twerks at Alexa's command.

Amazon $4, and debuted a number of new smart speakers and other products equipped with its Alexa voice assistant. According $4, held at Amazon's Seattle headquarters, the company showed off some of its newest products for attendees to try out.

One of those products was $4 made by a company called Gemmy. The teddy bear has been $4 $4, but the bear took center stage Wednesday while showing off its dance moves.

Gemmy makes a whole line of twerking plush toys. Besides the traditional teddy bear, Gemmy also makes a $4 and $4. All of the twerking toys need an Amazon Echo device to sync up with in order to work. Once they're synced up, the twerking Gemmy toy will respond to a number of Alexa-powered voice commands. The twerking bear will dance to Amazon Music (no other music streaming services, however,), lip-sync the weather and other commands coming from your Echo device, and also twerk to your alarms, timers, and event notifications.

Gemmy's twerking bear initially sold for $40, but each of the twerking Alexa-enabled toys are available $4 to buy today.

It's been more than a decade since the $4 was the hottest, tech-savvy music accessory in every middle schooler's bedroom. But the Gemmy twerking bear is its natural successor - with dance moves for the modern-day, Generation Z teen.

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