Amazon’s Ring unveiled the Ring Drone Cam, a $250 indoor security camera that flies between rooms and up to the second floor, along with the Ring Rover Cam, a $1,000 robot that patrols offices and warehouses. When a Ring alarm or door and window sensor goes off, the drone follows a preset route to check on the house, and it can stay in the air for about eight minutes before it flies back to its charger. Ring first showed the drone in 2020 as the Always Home Cam at nearly the same price, but Ring CEO Jamie Siminoff said he delayed it so Amazon could get the hardware and data processing right. The Rover Cam is a rebuilt version of Amazon’s Astro, which Amazon sold to businesses for $2,349.99 in 2023. The robot ships December 16, while the drone ships January 27 if the FCC approves it.
