After years of "coming soon," Ring's flying security camera finally has a real ship date and a price: $250, landing in U.S. homes January 27, 2027. The Ring Drone Cam flies itself from room to room on routes you set, films in 2K, and docks itself to charge when it's done. Yes — a drone that patrols your living room. Either the future of home security, or the most ambitious way ever invented to feel watched.
The dock is the whole trick. The Drone Cam launches from it, flies your preset routes, and lands itself back to charge — eight minutes of flight per run, so it's never loose in your house longer than a coffee break.
The whole thing weighs 165 grams, and Ring's AI Pilot maps your home so it can fly over and check on things when an alert pings. That battery life, though: eight minutes. A camera with a curfew.
And because one flying camera wasn't enough, Ring also announced the Ring Rover Cam — a $1,000 mobile security robot with a periscope camera that extends about four feet, built to patrol businesses for thirty minutes at a stretch. It rolls out December 16, so offices get the robot a month before your house gets the drone.
The full breakdown — pricing, flight quirks, and whether the Robot Future is actually here — is in today's video.
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