Ring Launches a $250 Flying Home Camera and a $1,000 Patrol Robot
Amazon's Ring unveiled Ring Robotics on Tuesday: a 165-gram indoor drone that flies to alarms and a wheeled robot that patrols businesses, with the drone still awaiting federal clearance.
Amazon’s Ring on Tuesday launched Ring Robotics, a new line of security machines that move on their own: a flying indoor camera for homes and a wheeled patrol robot for businesses.
The Ring Drone Cam costs $249.99 and is set to ship in the United States on January 27, 2027. The Ring Rover Cam costs $999.99, is open for preorder now and is set to ship on December 16, 2026. Both run on Ring’s AI Pilot system, which uses cameras, vision models, onboard sensors and cloud processing to map a space, suggest patrol points and steer around obstacles, Amazon said.
A camera that flies to the alarm
The Drone Cam weighs 165 grams, less than most phones, and lives in a charging dock on the floor with its camera off until a flight starts. It can fly preset routes on a schedule or on demand from the Ring app, and it can also take off on its own when a connected Ring device trips: a sensor, a camera that caught motion or a contact on a back door can send it to a saved patrol point to look at what happened.
The camera records in 2K video through a 148-degree field of view, turns a full 360 degrees and carries a second 1080p camera underneath, along with two LED lights for dark hallways. Amazon puts flight time at eight to ten minutes, and the dock trades eight minutes of charging for every minute of flight, so the drone is built for short, pointed trips: check the stove, check the window, come home.
The drone still needs authorization from the Federal Communications Commission before Ring can offer it for sale. Until that clearance comes, buyers can only sign up for updates by email.
A robot that works the night shift
The Rover Cam is built for offices, stores and warehouses. It patrols on a schedule or when a connected Ring device trips, streams and records in up to 4K video while it moves and runs a 360-degree scan of the space when it arrives at a stop. A periscope camera rides on an adjustable mast, so it can see over counters and shelving, and it remembers the height set at each stop.
Deterrence is part of the design: the robot carries a siren, a light tower and two-way audio for talking to whoever it finds. Person detection runs even while the robot is docked, and a sleep mode retracts the periscope and turns off the microphone.
The Rover Cam descends from Amazon’s Astro, the home robot that found a second life as a business security guard before Amazon ended the $2,350 business version in 2024. Ring says Astro owners told the company that roving security was the feature they liked most, so the Rover keeps that one job and drops the rest.
One system, one subscription
Both machines use the same navigation system and both plug into the Ring app and the new Alexa Home Map for control. Both record under what Ring calls Throw Away the Key encryption. Some features, including scheduled patrols and some video recording, require a compatible Ring Protect subscription, which is a running cost on top of the hardware.
Ring first showed a flying home camera, the Always Home Cam, in 2020, sold it briefly by invitation and never shipped it widely. Founder Jamie Siminoff has said the earlier versions were not good enough to launch. The Drone Cam is that idea rebuilt around a working navigation system, and Ring says this is the version it is willing to sell at scale.
Reporting based on coverage by Reuters and The Gadgeteer.
