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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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[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 13 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.