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Amazon's Ring unveils flying drone and robot to patrol homes and businesses
Amazon's $250 Ring Drone Cam flies from room to room to investigate suspicious activity, and can capture footage at night.
Some people use a whole bunch of fixed cameras to monitor their homes, but Amazon has just unveiled a more flexible solution through wheeled and flying robots. Both the $250 Drone Cam and $1,000 Rover Cam can respond to alarms or door and window sensor alerts in order to go check out what’s happening and send live video … more… They’re the first two products from the company’s new autonomous home security devices category. Amazon Add Engadget on Google: Preferred Source Google Discover It's been at least six years since Amazon first teased an in-home security camera in the form of a drone, but Ring founder Jamie Siminoff says that his company has actually been working on a "drone concept" since 2016. That's before Amazon even acquired Ring in 2018, and about a decade in the making.
