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 disagree
Don’t know why but the Terminator theme just started playing…
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?
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
Cats would destroy these little drones so freaking quickly
Scaring the shit out of the kitties*
BbbbzzzZZZZZZTTTTTTT
Little shit knows he’s not allowed up there! Engage!
“…each containing 3 grams of shaped charge.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2tpwW0kmU
I have a wired Ring doorbell, no subscription, because it was free. But I’ll be damned if I’d let one loose inside.
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.
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
had me in the first half ngl
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
This is giving me Cyberpunk 2077 vibes
Doing absolutely nothing untoward.
Absolutely nothing untoward.
Will people seriously let these things fly around inside their homes?
What am I saying? Of course they will. They’ll think they’re cool.
It’s just the next step to desensitizing the next generation to more surveillance. We already have cars, delivery bots, and vacuum cleaners roaming around, filming everything, inside and out. Soon, we’ll have delivery drones and these things doing the same, inside and out. “Oh, don’t worry, we don’t record it, honest!” Bullshit.
You know what people use their security cameras for? From what I’ve seen on Nextdoor, they use them to ask questions about “suspicious” people on the sidewalk and street. They use them to record mementos of the occasional porch theft, because the cops won’t do a thing about that, “I don’t know who that is, do you? No? Well, what am I supposed to do about it?”
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
