Ring prices its Rover Cam security robot for businesses at $999.99, with a $249.99 indoor drone for homes

Ring, Amazon's doorbell-camera brand, launched two robots on Nov. 10 under the name Ring Robotics. The Rover Cam is a ground patrol robot for businesses, priced at $999.99 and shipping in the U.S. on Dec. 16; preorders are open. The Drone Cam is a flying indoor camera for homes at $249.99, due Jan. 27, 2027. Amazon says it still needs FCC authorization before the drone can be sold.

What makes them different from Amazon's earlier robot is what sets them moving. Both can run scheduled patrols, but they also go automatically to a spot when a connected Ring camera, sensor or alarm is triggered. The Rover drives there and does a 360° scan; the drone flies to its patrol points. That makes them the mobile end of an alarm system people already pay for, a role Astro never had built in. Amazon launched Astro in 2021, repurposed it as a business security robot in 2023 and discontinued it in July 2024, TechCrunch notes. Ring says Astro customers' feedback inspired the Rover.

The robot maps the building itself

Both machines run a Ring system called AI Pilot. Amazon says it explores the space to draw a floor plan, identifies rooms, suggests patrol points, plans routes and steers around obstacles in real time, the way an autonomous mobile robot does in a warehouse. The Rover streams and records up to 4K video from a camera on a periscope mast it can raise over obstacles, and carries a siren, a light tower and two-way audio. The drone records 2K video with a 148° field of view and sits in its dock with the camera off by default.

Scheduling and some recording features need a Ring Protect subscription. "It's the beginning of a future where proactive, autonomous protection is something every home and every business can have," said Jamie Siminoff, Ring's founder.

Ring sells the Rover as a consumer product, through the same app as its doorbells. Whether shops and offices buy a patrol robot that way, rather than from a security contractor, is what its first months on sale will show. Amazon is also hiring for a separate home robot built around Fauna, but Ring's robots ship first.