No one's home tonight, but the sensor on your home office window upstairs alerts your phone: “Motion detected.” Maybe it's just your cat, or a flicker of a passing car’s headlights. Instead of shrugging it off, you ask Alexa to send your Ring Drone Cam to check it out.
The tiny, 165-gram drone lifts out of its charging dock, buzzing loudly, and autonomously flies upstairs, giving you a first-person view on your phone’s screen as it scans the room. Since it's dark in the house, the Drone's spotlights kick in, making it look like someone's physically in the home and moving around—a potential deterrent to would-be thieves. All clear? It heads back to its base to recharge.
That's the peace of mind Ring wants to offer with its latest home security solution, which it announced today for $250, alongside the Ring Rover Cam, a $1,000 roving security robot designed to help businesses monitor warehouses and factories. Both fall under the company's new “Ring Robotics” brand. The Rover Cam launches first on December 16, followed by the Drone Cam on January 27, 2027.
The Ring Drone Cam flies out of its charging station to monitor the home.
This isn't the company's first at-home drone camera. CEO and founder Jamie Siminoff says he had the idea for a flying sentry in 2016 before Amazon bought Ring. The company previously announced an indoor security drone in 2020— the Ring Always Home Cam —and nearly launched it last year . But Siminoff says the team kept running into edge cases that forced them to add more sensors.
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