Amazon's Ring unveils the Ring Drone Cam, a $250 flying home security camera

Amazon's Ring unit has presented the Ring Drone Cam, a flying security camera for the home, the company announced on Tuesday. It will be available at the end of January for 250 dollars, Ring said.

The drone has a light, fully redesigned body that looks very different from the one Ring announced in 2020 and planned to sell the following year. Ring dropped that first version, and it also dropped a second attempt that it worked on until last year.

Ring founder Jamie Siminoff, now an Amazon vice president, said each new sensor and more computing needed a bigger battery, and the extra weight called for stronger rotors that hurt the drone's stability. He said the turning point came when the company relied heavily on artificial intelligence to coordinate flight and the main functions, and moved most of the processing to the cloud.