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.
Black Mirror was a warning not a guidebook
I want a Home Alone where Joe Pesci goes “What the fuck?” and swats one of these out of the air immediately.
Well, I’m sure Amazon won’t misuse this data.
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Thats really cool, after i make a selfhosted version.
God damn this is so cool. I would be into it more if it wasn’t also so evil
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
"For years, customers (business owners) 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 onethey want to oversee every employee making sure they slave away every second not wasting one penny of mine,”Life becomes even more like a stealth game
Doing absolutely nothing untoward.
Absolutely nothing untoward.
I want a libre version of this that has no internet, and all local storage
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.
So rebranding a bit here, it’s not a personal home surveillance tool, it’s a drone that monitors businesses from above.
Anyways, y’all ever played Cyberpunk 2077?
That’s a really good point. I hadn’t considered it.
They have drones that are silent, and near invisible to the human eye
I look forward to the articles that come out once it’s realized that you can’t own this if you have cats.
Oh, cats will LOVE those things
Or hunting dog breeds. My brother’s lab would have this torn to shreds in seconds.
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?”
Blast teams incoming call (bass boost version) while flying this in the office.
Don’t know why but the Terminator theme just started playing…
This is giving me Cyberpunk 2077 vibes
Yes! My first thought was of someone hacking these and making them crash into shit. In a game it would be to cause a distraction, but in the real world people would just do it to cause chaos for anyone dumb enough to buy one.
