Amazon’s Ring is best known for its doorbell and home security cameras, but now the company is rolling out cameras that can move around on their own.
Ring announced Tuesday a new product category called Ring Robotics, starting with two devices, the Ring Drone Cam and Ring Rover Cam.
“For years, customers told us they wanted eyes in the places a fixed camera couldn’t reach, and peace of mind in the spots they’d never want one,” said Ring Founder Jamie Siminoff in a press release. “The honest answer wasn’t more cameras; it meant reimagining what a security device could be.”
Both devices are powered by Ring’s custom-built AI Pilot system, which allows them to map indoor spaces, suggest patrol points, and navigate around obstacles on their own.
I want a Home Alone where Joe Pesci goes “What the fuck?” and swats one of these out of the air immediately.
I want a libre version of this that has no internet, and all local storage
Life becomes even more like a stealth game
Blast teams incoming call (bass boost version) while flying this in the office.
Thats really cool, after i make a selfhosted version.
Black Mirror was a warning not a guidebook
I agree, it make a great inspiration, just like the torment nexus from don’t build the torment necus
I would love to have an indoor drone cam that i could reliably fly remotely, there’s a thousand use cases for it. There is, however, absolutely no reason for it to be attached to the Amazon Surveillance State except to further enrich Jeff Bezos and supply a pipeline directly from inside my house to the government.
I feel like I’m living in another world, I can’t think of a single reason why I’d want this let alone hundreds.
What kinds of use cases are you thinking of?
Away on vacation, need to see if you left something plugged in you meant to unplug? Home’s motion sensor set off an alarm while you’re at work and you want to check around and see if it was the cat again or an actual burglar? Need to see above high cabinets or alcoves to check if you left something up there without a ladder? Maybe fly up into the attic if you have a water leak show up so you can see what’s leaking? Away on vacation and left automated feeding/watering for the plants/cats, just checking in to see that they’re not dead?
I have injuries that limit my mobility (though a recent surgery has improved it). Also, I’m lazy.
Sometimes after I go to bed I want to check something comparably easy to check, but am too lazy or in too much pain to do so. If I had a drone like this I could, say, fly it over my oven to make sure I turned it off.
As it is, most things I can put on the IoT or run through z-wave (mainly my locks and thermostats) I have. I have WiFi cameras (that I’m working on moving to exclusively self hosted) pointed at my garage doors and some exterior doors whose locks I haven’t put online so I can make sure the house is secured, the cars are in place, no one left the garage open, etc.
I don’t need a drone for any of that, but it could certainly help, especially from back before my surgery when there were times I legitimately could not stand up, let alone move around the house checking things.
That said, as others have observed, if I were to buy this I would not go with an Amazon product.
Most of that is solved by having a neighbor or just going into the attic or having a step stool
I don’t think anyone is arguing that having a drone to remotely view your house is some kind of necessity or human right. But if you don’t have a neighbor or don’t trust a neighbor to be in your house, or you don’t want to inconvenience a neighbor, or a friend - or whatever, it is a use case and the question was about use cases. The ultimate point is, it is in fact a cool gadget, but handing your privacy over to Amazon for it is ridiculous.
Thanks for sharing. While those aren’t scenarios I’d probably want a drone for (primarily cause I dont have a cat), it’s interesting to see what other people would use something like this for.
Checking on the kitties
Scaring the shit out of the kitties*
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Little shit knows he’s not allowed up there! Engage!
Cats would destroy these little drones so freaking quickly
Does anyone puffing on this particular crack pipe have any idea how loud even little palm sized drones are, especially indoors?
Even before getting into the privacy aspects this is a monumentally stupid idea. I can’t wait to read all the one star reviews on this if/when it comes out.
So rebranding a bit here, it’s not a personal home surveillance tool, it’s a drone that monitors businesses from above.
Anyways, y’all ever played Cyberpunk 2077?
It’s also going to have to automatically return to some sort of charging cradle.
That’s included in the headline image. Whether or not that actually works is a different story. I’m not a half bad drone pilot but even I have trouble accurately landing a mini drone on a spot that small since the ground effect combined with any tiny breezes in the room push the thing around relentlessly when it’s that close to a surface.
Any kind of error and it will spin out and destroy any screens you have in the room, not to mention taking paint off the walls, possibly damaging pets or children… Dogs fucking hate drones btw.
That’s a really good point. I hadn’t considered it.
They have drones that are silent, and near invisible to the human eye
God damn this is so cool. I would be into it more if it wasn’t also so evil
I struggle with that thought too.
I can see so many positive use cases for this technology… but I just know it’s going to be exploited for the worst purposes.
Use Case 1: cute widdle wobot flyin around your home :3
I realize you’re joking, but you’re not wrong. Lots of people will look at it that way.
Hell, cuteness is what the FB marketing team is trying to leverage in order to get people to give up their data to their Muse agent.
I would absolutely buy a robot like this to follow me around pick up little things and play music like DJ Roomba 2.0 if it weren’t exorbitantly expensive and it was self-hosted so I knew it wasn’t sending data about me
had me in the first half ngl
Well, I’m sure Amazon won’t misuse this data.
/s
Doing absolutely nothing untoward.
Absolutely nothing untoward.
"For years, customers (business owners) told us they wanted eyes in the places a fixed camera couldn’t reach, and
peace of mind in the spots they’d never want onethey want to oversee every employee making sure they slave away every second not wasting one penny of mine,”I look forward to the articles that come out once it’s realized that you can’t own this if you have cats.
Or hunting dog breeds. My brother’s lab would have this torn to shreds in seconds.
Oh, cats will LOVE those things
Don’t know why but the Terminator theme just started playing…
