Will the Ring Drone Cam Have Manual Controls?
Ring’s Drone Cam won’t let owners fly it by hand. The security camera drone, slated to arrive in January, relies entirely on an “AI Pilot” system that follows preprogrammed routes and steers itself around obstacles. Ring has confirmed there will be no manual control option at launch, and a demonstration for CBS News showed the drone crashing twice while it was being flown manually.
The video, broadcast on CBS Mornings and posted to Threads, shows Ring founder Jamie Siminoff letting technology reporter Jo Ling Kent take the controls of an early version through a mobile app with integrated flight controls. Kent asked whether she could steer it. Siminoff said the team could load manual controls.
What Caused the Ring Drone Cam Demo Crashes?
The first crash happened while the drone was being piloted manually. Ring reportedly told CBS News that the drone’s collision avoidance technology malfunctioned. The company declined to share the video the drone recorded before it went down.
CBS News captured the second crash on camera. The footage shows the drone striking a wall after it failed to respond to manual inputs. Siminoff said the drone had lost internet connectivity, the same connection it depends on to fly autonomously. “If it loses connectivity, it’s supposed to stop and land,” Siminoff said in the video. “It did not there.”
Ring declined to let reporters use the app during their own demonstration of the Drone Cam. The company said the device only works on preprogrammed flight paths. Manual flight controls appear to have existed at some stage of development, but Ring will not make them available to customers when the drone launches.
In a statement to The Verge, Ring spokesperson Sam McGee defended the approach. “We explored a lot of features throughout the development, but autonomous flight to patrol points using the AI Pilot is the best customer benefit and experience,” McGee said. Ring did not respond to a question about whether the decision to drop manual controls came after the CBS News demonstration.
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