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Amazon’s New Ring Security Cameras Can Fly Around Your House or Roam Around Your Business (gizmodo.com)
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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.

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[–] 11 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

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?

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  • [–] 3 points 7 hours ago (1 child)

    Most of that is solved by having a neighbor or just going into the attic or having a step stool

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  • [–] 3 points 4 hours ago

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 hours ago

    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.

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