🚁Ring Unveils 165-Gram Indoor Drone Cam and Rover for Businesses

Your home security camera might start flying around

Ring is putting flying cameras inside your house. The new Ring Drone Cam weighs 165 grams, flies upstairs to monitor rooms, and its spotlights kick on in dark spaces so it looks like someone is physically home. For developers, the interesting part is the architecture. The drone's intelligence lives entirely in the cloud, which keeps the hardware light and nimble, and it can avoid people and objects on its own. Users can set custom flight routes and patrol schedules, and the drone responds automatically to alerts from security sensors. That makes it a real integration target for anyone building home automation workflows. The specs are modest. Flight time is five to eight minutes per charge. The drone refuses to fly if its motor health check fails, lands on its own if connectivity drops, and video is encrypted in transit with TAKE, or Throw Away the Key Encryption. The production model will be black, not white. It doesn't work outdoors and doesn't need FAA registration. The business-facing Ring Rover Cam, part of the same Ring Robotics brand, adds a telescoping 4K camera, two-way talk, and coverage up to 5,000 square feet, and it costs significantly less than Amazon's Astro.