Amazon plans to release two new roaming security devices starting at the end of 2026 and early 2027. The Ring Rover Cam, priced at $1,000 and available for preorder, will ship on December 16, 2026. The Ring Drone Cam, priced at $250, aims to launch on January 27, 2027, pending FCC approval.
Both devices use an AI Pilot system that relies on cameras, specialized vision models, on-device sensors, and cloud processing to autonomously patrol homes and businesses. The AI Pilot maps floor plans after customers carry the drone through indoor spaces or allow the Rover to explore independently. It then identifies rooms and suggests patrol points near doors, windows, or sensitive locations like cash registers.
The Ring Drone has a 148-degree field of view, 360-degree rotation, and 2K video resolution. It offers eight minutes of flight time on a fully charged battery and requires a Ring Protect subscription to follow set routes and respond to alerts. The drone cannot be controlled directly but can be accessed through Alexa Home Map. However, performance degrades on reflective surfaces, blank matte walls without features, and transparent surfaces.
The Ring Rover streams and records in up to 4K video. It operates on single floors only due to lacking stair-climbing capability and covers up to 5,000 square feet. It includes a mast for peering over obstacles, a siren, light tower, and microphone for two-way audio.
The devices will use Ring's Throw Away the Key Encryption introduced in September 2026. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has called this an improvement but short of end-to-end encryption. The EFF previously criticized Ring founder Jamie Siminoff's "surveillance-first-privacy-last" approach.
Ring faced a 2023 FTC investigation for allowing employees and contractors to watch customer recordings and for inadequate safeguards that enabled hackers to access 55,000 US customer accounts. Amazon's previous Ring Always Home Cam drone, which launched in September 2021, raised similar privacy concerns around indoor surveillance and company data access.