In brief

• Ring, the Amazon-owned doorbell camera company, has launched a new Ring Robotics line.
• The $250 Ring Drone Cam flies between rooms in a home and can record at night.
• The Ring Rover Cam is a patrol robot for businesses, reportedly priced at about $1,000.

Two new devices under Ring Robotics

Amazon's Ring, best known for its doorbell and home cameras, announced on Tuesday a new product line called Ring Robotics. It starts with two devices: an indoor drone for homes and a wheeled patrol robot for commercial sites (Amazon’s Ring debuts security robots including a drone – NBCNews.com) (Amazon’s New Ring Security Cameras Can Fly Around Your House or Roam Around Your Business – Gizmodo) (Ring, known for its doorbell cameras, launches a home security drone and an enterprise security robot – TechCrunch).

The home drone

The Ring Drone Cam is a small quadcopter with a camera, priced at $250. The drone is built to move between rooms and check activity inside a house, and it can record video at night (Amazon's Ring unveils flying drone and robot to patrol homes and businesses – CNBC). It shoots 2K video and includes LED lights. It integrates with Ring's other home devices, so if an alarm triggers in one area, such as the back door, the drone is meant to fly there and investigate. When idle, it rests in a docking bay.

The business robot

The Ring Rover Cam is a wheeled robot for businesses that patrols large facilities autonomously. It borrows much of its design from Amazon's Astro home robot, introduced in 2021, and rolls on two large wheels that help it cross small obstacles and uneven ground (Amazon turned its Alexa robot into a Ring security patrol bot – The Verge). Ring positions it as a lower-cost option for investigating concerns across big sites. Reported pricing for the robot is about $1,000.

Shared AI system

Both devices run on Ring's in-house AI Pilot system. It lets them map indoor spaces, pick patrol points and steer around obstacles without manual control.

Company framing

Founder Jamie Siminoff said customers had asked for coverage in places a fixed camera cannot reach. The answer, he said, was rethinking what a security device could be rather than adding more cameras. The move shifts Ring from monitoring toward active response. Because cameras will now move through homes and workplaces, the change is likely to raise privacy questions.