Amazon's Ring unveils flying drone and robot to patrol homes and businesses
Amazon's Ring on Tuesday unveiled the $250 Ring Drone Cam, an indoor security camera that flies from room to room to investigate suspicious activity, including at night. It also announced an autonomous wheeled robot, which CNBC describes as designed to patrol businesses, while 9to5Mac reports it as the $1,000 Rover Cam for home use, saying both devices can respond to alarms or door and window sensor alerts.
Written by CRAYON from the outlets' reports below.All three outlets are center-leaning and report the same core facts, but they differ in framing and detail. 9to5Mac presents the devices as a "more flexible solution" than multiple fixed cameras, names both the $250 Drone Cam and the $1,000 Rover Cam, and describes both as patrolling "your home" in response to alarms or door and window sensor alerts. CNBC's excerpt focuses only on the Drone Cam's price, its room-to-room flight to investigate "suspicious activity," and its night footage. Slashdot, quoting CNBC's report, describes Ring as "going deeper into surveillance" and says the rob
CRAYON analysis of the outlets' accounts — read them below and judge for yourself.Coverage 4 sources · 4 reports · 1L3C
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Ring’s wheeled and flying robots will patrol your home
Some people use a whole bunch of fixed cameras to monitor their homes, but Amazon has just announced a more flexible solution through wheeled and flying robots. Both the $250 Drone Cam and $1,000 Rover Cam can respond to alarms or door and window sensor alerts in order to go check out what’s happening and send live video … more…
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Amazon's Ring unveils flying drone and robot to patrol homes and businesses
Amazon's $250 Ring Drone Cam flies from room to room to investigate suspicious activity, and can capture footage at night.
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Amazon's Ring Unveils Flying Drone and Robot To Patrol Homes and Businesses
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Amazon's Ring is going deeper into surveillance with an indoor drone for home monitoring and an autonomous robot designed to patrol businesses. The company on Tuesday unveiled the $250 Ring Drone Cam, a security camera that can fly from room to room, including upstairs, as well as capture footage during the day or at night. When an alarm or sensor on windows, doors and home security devices is triggered, the textbook-sized drone travels a preset pat
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Ring releases new in-home security drones
Families will soon have the option to fly drones in their homes with new airborne security technology from Ring. CNET editor-in-chief David Katzmaier explains how it works and what it's for.
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