Floating Camera

Floating cameras appear in multiple Sonic continuities.

SatAM
In Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM), the floating camera is a nearly ubiquitous device in Robotropolis and its environs. It is a small, hovering, spheroid observation robot with a camera lens at one end. The lens is protected by four metal plates. They can fly at any height and have no weapons or attack capability. They are attracted to flares, voice boxes, and the location gun flares are fired from. The video feed from the cameras is picked up directly at Doctor Robotnik's control room in Robotropolis.

On one occasion, Sonic caught a floating camera and kept it in his backpack. He used it to trick Robotnik into recalling a group of Stealthbots, then to taunt the dictator when the Stealthbots exploded (Sally had previously reprogrammed them to detonate on recall).

A different design of floating camera appeared in the pilot episode, "Heads or Tails". In this episode, the floating cameras resembled actual eyes suspended from floating platforms.

Sonic the Comic
Floating cameras also appeared in Sonic the Comic, again to allow Doctor Robotnik to keep watch over his newly-conquered Mobius. In this continuity, they resemble floating eggs with camera lenses on four sides.

When Sonic returned after being flung six months into the future, he found the Emerald Hill Zone completely dominated by Robotnik and his Troopers, with the floating cameras littering the skies. After destroying many of the Troopers, Sonic used one of the cameras to issue Robotnik a warning that he would figure out a way of ridding Mobius of the evil doctor once and for all.