The robots are here and they fly. Today at Ascend, we announced: • R10 - a breakthrough indoor drone that uses AI and autonomy to get into the most dangerous places so people don’t have to. • F10 - a prototype Robotic Takeoff and Land (RTOL) drone that will unlock long-range, long-endurance, high-speed missions. It will eventually put all the landmass on Earth within reach of an autonomous, Docked drone. Imagine having all of our transportation and energy networks instantly accessible, or being able to get eyes on scene for every emergency, any natural disaster, immediately, anywhere. • Continued evolution of our AI software to make X10 multi-drone native so one operator can command many drones, and the robots work for us rather than the other way around. • Myriad other improvements to our hardware and software to make them more capable, more reliable, and more useful, for more people. This is a special moment as drones transition from being useful tools to critical infrastructure for our most critical industries. It is an immense challenge - and a true joy - to develop this technology and deploy it in service of the most important customers in the world. And we’ve now got a whole Family of Flying Robots to meet the need. I’m so proud of our team at Skydio for pulling off the impossible. You can watch the full keynote in the link below, or just check out these sick highlights of the Cybertruck-mounted robot arm snatching F10 out of the air, R10 flying through <10” gaps with ease, and X10s going off out of Docks like fireworks.

Good news: San Mateo weather was horrendous on Thursday, with heavy rain and gusts up to 60MPH. When the going gets tough, Madison Taylor and our awesome Product Integrity team DIAL UP our automated flight testing, not down. We had an overall success rate of 167/168 flights in terrible conditions in one day from our @SkydioHQ Dock Hive. The single crash landing was the first we’ve had in real-world conditions (wind was way above our recommended flight spec). We’re looking into it now and believe there are further SW improvements that would mitigate the issue. [Musical credit to @riffusionai, co-founded by our former VP Autonomy @hmartiros riffusion.com/riff/19b606df-…]

Hayward, CA

𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝗮𝗱 𝘄𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗗𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴: the wind is so stiff the hard-mounted security camera filming this video is shaking. The drone's autonomy system is using computer vision to stay locked onto the Dock in spite of the rain, while the control system is estimating and adapting to the wind in realtime. It intentionally times its landing for a lower wind and higher alignment moment.

Main story: @CaseyNeistat reviews R1 and says "This isn't a small step up in tracking and following technology, this is a quantum leap." Subplot: @lancearmstrong gets followed and filmed by a drone that @SkydioHQ built! piped.video/mlJGtSg5oRw

Sometimes Skydio 2 really outdoes itself. Pretty astounding fully autonomous cinematography.

Fun party tonight to celebrate shipping Skydio 2. This is a product most of the world thought was impossible: fully autonomous, category leading drone, designed and manufactured in the US. The only reason it is possible is our lean, mean, incredibly talented team @SkydioHQ .

Big milestone today @SkydioHQ, 🦄! Proud of our incredible team and thankful for our customers. We're just getting started :)

Indeed. With drones it's typically pretty easy to imagine and even demo the concept (drone delivery, drone respond to 911 call, drone follows/films) and hundreds of companies have. Very few have made these things actually work reliably, and even fewer have built actual businesses around them.

Huge milestone for Skydio, Army, US drone industry. With this Program of Record, up to $99.8M over 5 years, soldiers are getting a world-leading < 3lb autonomous drone, designed and built in the US, something many didn’t think was possible a few years ago. skydio.com/blog/skydio-selec…

We have a slack channel dedicated to videos of employees wiping out while testing Skydio2 (failed-on-skydio). Sorry for your trouble @donttrythis , but you're in good company.

Skydio 2 is so autonomous it tests itself. This little puppy will be flying and charging with a dock continuously all weekend for final software validation @SkydioHQ.

Today we open-sourced SymForce, a paradigm shifting (really Earth-shattering) symbolic computation and code generation library for solving model-based optimization problems that show up in robotics and CV. Our VP Autonomy, Hayk Martiros will be presenting it @RoboticsSciSys

Were those the good old days? Maybe these are the good old days.

Shipping out the first X10s from @SkydioHQ's Hayward, CA factory today. Reception and demand have been staggering... we’re gonna be building A LOT more of these! Happy Thanksgiving from (and to!) our exceptional Skydio team. I’m grateful to be part of such a special company.

Power of Skydio AI, software flexibility, and our integrated system... this demo combining computer vision, augmented reality, and autonomy was written by Varun on the first day of his internship @SkydioHQ

New dimension of autonomous flight for cinematography. Something we've been working on for years.

Excited to welcome Dan Adams to Skydio! electrek.co/2016/01/08/tesla…

Excited to finally order my Skydio 2. (I guess I was late on the draw on launch day :)

Absolutely astounding. As impressive as Zipline is, I think it's still underappreciated how impactful they will be and how big of a lead they have compared to others trying to do similar stuff.

The AI that runs our social media account became sentient and got snarky with DJI's @dronelaws . We're unapologetically all about autonomy and AI @SkydioHQ

A decent fraction of my classmates @OlinCollege that made fun of me for flying nerd planes now work at Skydio. Joke's on you guys!

Secret master plan.

We have Friday Flydays @SkydioHQ where all manner of flying objects come out to play. This is a "discus launch glider" flown by Zak who leads our protyping lab. Filmed by KeyFrame. (I got a little too excited)

Going to see Top Gun with @SkydioHQ Product Leader and former F/A-18 pilot Mike Ross. Top that!

Amazing use case based on @SkydioHQ drones and navigation software. No one better to build this warehouse product than @SkyCapture and @warerobotics.

𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐧. In addition to having built-in heaters to melt snow and ice, Dock is designed to break through accumulated ice to be ready for a mission in any conditions. The number one feature of any Dock/DFR system is reliability, and Dock for X10 reflects years of real-world learnings and technology development.

Today @SkydioHQ launches Dock for X10, a product that completes the vision of autonomous drones doing useful work to keep our communities safer, keep the lights on, and help protect our national security. Drones should work for you - responding to emergencies, inspecting critical infrastructure, and helping people do their jobs better - and with Dock for X10 they do. You can place them wherever critical work happens and a single operator can fly and manage the entire fleet remotely. Dock for X10 is the ultimate automated data capture platform. skydio.com/blog/dock-for-x10… There is A LOT of amazing technology under the hood, and we had a lot of fun with live demos during the keynote, including completing missions in 30mph winds and rain on stage. But the thing I’m most excited about is the end-to-end solutions Dock for X10 unlocks, especially for public safety. Drone as First Responder is a transformative concept and Dock for X10 makes it scalable and accessible for any agency. On top of Dock for X10, we’ve developed DFR Command, the ultimate software suite to run a DFR program from inception through scale. skydio.com/blog/announcing-s… We're already seeing our customers accomplishing incredible things while reshaping their industries in the process. We can’t wait to see how they will put Skydio to work next.

The 10 week output of the autonomy interns @SkydioHQ stacks up favorably with 2-5 year robotics MS/PhD projects from a few years ago. Indicative of the incredible group we had this summer, the technology foundation at Skydio, and overall progress in the field. All very exciting.

Will admit that space robots are also cool.

Reminder: this thing is flying itself. This video is created autonomously. You can create videos like this whenever you want with a Skydio 2. Without needing to pilot it.

Tom wrote the very first check to @SkydioHQ as an investor. We are so fortunate to now have him join as our COO. I'm looking forward to learning from him and working with him to help build an awesome autonomous drone future.

Today we launched @SkydioHQ’s X10 with the goal of opening up a new chapter for drones in critical industries. I wrote about what it is and what it means here: linkedin.com/posts/adambry_t…. Zooming in on tech, X10 is a unique combo of... 🧵

Earlier today I sent this note to our customers. Because this is such a critical topic for the drone industry and for our national security, I'm sharing it here publicly as well. linkedin.com/posts/adambry_e…

Dock for X10 is now generally available, along with a brand new X10 Gen 2. We’re building a tidal wave of these puppies to meet the demand and take a big step towards drones becoming basic infrastructure for the core industries our civilization runs on. In this video, we get into all the new stuff we’ve built to make the product sweet. Our customers have completed over 13,000 Dock-based missions across the US and Japan during beta deployment, and the impact is already mind blowing – public safety agencies are changing outcomes daily, from saving lives to catching criminals and thwarting crimes in progress; utility operators are automating inspections and detecting anomalies before they become catastrophes; our service members are strengthening site security and response to potential threats. And we're just getting started. Together with our customers, we’re building towards an awesome future of autonomous flying robots doing useful work on our behalf.

Making the world more productive, creative, and safe with autonomous flight. For realz.

A lot of talk about how important it is for startups to "cut costs now". No one saying "fire employees at the worst moment and contribute to an economic downward spiral." Don't hide behind a euphemism if you want to give the advice.

You can charge your phone using the USB-C port on Skydio 2. (Not sure if this is a protip or not, but it's becoming a regular part of my travel routine)

Come to this @RoboticsSeminar to hear about the research we've done over the last 7 years to develop the @SkydioHQ autonomy system!

Smooth mode through the woods on #SkydioR1. Pretty fun.

I’m very excited about the progress we’re making towards drones becoming core infrastructure, and deepening some key partnerships with @official_kddi and @axon_enterprise via strategic investment to help make it happen. linkedin.com/pulse/drones-in…

America has always had air superiority, but in future conflicts air superiority = drone superiority, and we have work to do as a country to regain the advantage. Super simple, super powerful use case from @USArmy and @USNationalGuard - using Skydio X2D to aim and correct artillery fire. This force multiplier accelerates kill chains and cuts reaction times. With it, artillery teams can ensure every round counts. More lethal. Less collateral. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝟣𝟨𝟨𝘵𝘩 𝘙𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 - 𝘙𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘵𝘦'𝘴 𝟣𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝟤𝘯𝘥 𝘉𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦-𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘹𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘎𝘢𝘱, 𝘗𝘢. 𝘋𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘦, 𝘴𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘜𝘯𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘈𝘪𝘳𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘵 𝘚𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘴 (𝘚𝘜𝘈𝘚), 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘢𝘴 𝘥𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴, 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘤𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘦. 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘶𝘣𝘮𝘪𝘵 𝘢 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝟤𝘯𝘥 𝘉𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘔𝟣𝟣𝟫, 𝘔𝟩𝟩𝟩, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝟣𝟢𝟫𝘈𝟨 𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘻𝘦𝘳𝘴. (U.S. Army and Army National Guard video by Sgt. 1st Class Shane Smith. The appearance of the @DeptofDefense visual information does not imply or constitute DoD endorsement.)

🚨Battery Update🚨 I’m happy to share that we are on track to begin shipping new batteries for X10/X10D in June. The rationing plan we were forced to adopt late last year - one battery for each drone we ship - has been extremely painful for our customers. Despite this pain, the overwhelming support has been humbling and motivating. We just finished one of our largest sales quarters ever. We are grateful for your trust. We will chew through the backlog as fast as we can, but it will take a couple of months. We will prioritize customers who have been waiting the longest for the full complement of batteries before we begin shipping new orders with full sets. I know this sucks. We appreciate your patience. Our @SkydioHQ supply chain and engineering teams have done extraordinary work, and it’s very likely that our new batteries will actually offer increased performance.

.@DOGE idea: scale up the use of small drones for military aircraft inspection. Already been demonstrated by @travis60AMW. Extrapolating their math gets you $15M/year. Plus it’s super cool and also keeps the human inspectors safer.

The urgency and impact of Drone as First Responder is so high that it’s fairly common for DFR training sessions right after a dock is installed to become actual missions. That’s exactly what happened here at @MiamiBeachPD. After a reported battery on Ocean Drive, the MBPD operator responded using DFR Command to send X10 to the scene and search for the suspect. Based on the description provided by witnesses, the pilot quickly located the individual and helped guide officers on the ground to her location, where she was apprehended without incident. Never a dull moment at Skydio or for our customers. We have several open roles on DFR training, deployment, and support teams. skydio.com/careers

Pretty awesome DFR Summit at @SkydioHQ. Together with @AxonRick and @axon_enterprise, we hosted 100+ Law Enforcement leaders from around the country at our R&D headquarters and manufacturing facility. Everyone got hands-on flying drones while also seeing under the hood how we design, build, and test these systems. The most exciting part for me was hearing the incredible impact stories from agencies that are up and flying Skydio DFR now. The map of deployments across the U.S. is getting denser every day :) Most importantly, we heard invaluable, direct feedback on everything we’re working on to make DFR more useful and more accessible. Send me a DM if you or your agency is interested in attending events like this in the future.

Next Wednesday we're announcing a product that's the culmination of the initial vision of @SkydioHQ from 10 years ago. Register here: airborne.skydio.com/public/e…

I went to Asheville this week and saw firsthand the enormous value drones can provide in hurricane recovery. Spurred on by Chief Michael Lamb, Captain Brandon Moore, and @AshevillePolice leadership, the drone industry response was incredible. I was especially impressed by the work of the @DroneSense team coordinating efforts and staffing central operations, and of course, the dozens of agencies that showed up to do whatever was needed. Unfortunately, the need may be even higher in Florida this week. As Florida braces for the impact of Hurricane Milton, we are sending a major contingent of Skydians - spanning product, engineering, SE, CSM, and executives - with appropriate equipment to help with the response. If you are impacted by this storm and @SkydioHQ can help, please DM me. flyingmag.com/news/responder…

GPS-denied flight of Skydio X2 at reception after the Whitehouse Advanced Air Mobility Summit, fun times!

Exactly the kind of sh*t we hoped people would do with Skydio drones when we were dreaming them up. @Casey maybe you should get @lancearmstrong on a MTB to test it out?

Full disclosure: @terronk is awesome and an investor in @SkydioHQ

Now our soldiers are getting access to this technology to help them do their jobs better and keep them safer. Huge thanks and congrats to everyone at Skydio, the Army, DIU, and everyone involved in the SRR program that helped make this happen. Lots more to come!

Fun morning in Salinas watching this outrageous contraption fly - super impressive stuff from @guardian_ag

Can confirm there has been a lot of cooking going on @SkydioHQ .

Random tip: sometimes laptop power supplies shutdown airplane outlets because they have capacitors that draw extra current when they're plugged in. If you repeatedly unplug and replug the power supply, it will charge up the capacitor, and eventually not shut down the outlet.

Our Asimov software release for X10D is a culmination of operational feedback from deployed units across every branch of the @DeptofDefense, 25+ allied forces around the world, and most importantly, everything that we’ve learned in Ukraine. With this software release, X10D is the most survivable, capable, ISR sUAS in its class in the world. Congratulations to the @SkydioHQ team that made this happen, and thank you to all of our customers who made it possible.

Mainly this just makes me miss playing Mario Kart

Proud to deliver hundreds of systems to the @USArmy, equipping soldiers with critical equipment before a deployment. The technologies we’ve developed in response to harsh lessons learned from deploying in Ukraine are now benefiting all of our defense customers. skydio.com/blog/skydio-deliv…

X10 modularity and extensibility continue to unlock cool stuff. Over the last month we whipped up some prototype droppers for @NYPDnews that they’ll use to patrol beaches over the summer and drop a potentially life-saving Restube to anyone in distress. This is still very early stages with no timeline for production, but we are committed to making sure this capability exists on X10. Worth noting that we also have an increasing number of @skydiohq partners developing 3rd party payloads based on the ICDs we’ve released. skydio.com/developer-tools

Drone as First Responder changes outcomes. Congratulations to @SFPD on operating one of the leading programs in the country.

The X10 platform recently crossed the 500,000-flight mark – a big milestone in total usage. And these are high-stakes flights. Our customers rely on X10 to keep the lights on, keep their communities safe, and protect our nation. We know it needs to work every time, and this is why reliability is our number one priority. Any time an aerospace asset - rocket, jetliner, private plane, helicopter, drone, or anything in between - goes in the air there is some risk. We are relentlessly focused on minimizing all of the risks under our control, while also transparently communicating what we believe the risk profile to be based on our best information. Transparency is important for a lot of reasons, but the primary one is that our customers often fly lifesaving missions and they are in the best position to manage and judge the impact and risk tradeoffs for their operations. Two examples of our posture on this are our history of Notice to Operators (NTOs) and our cloud uptime dashboard (status.skydio.com/history). With transparency in mind, I will share a very recent incident. Last night, we found out about a crash from an X10 Dock Beta deployment. Within the last 24 hours we’ve conducted a rapid investigation which has concluded with high confidence that battery connector wear is the root cause of the vehicle crash. We have seen instances of this kind of wear in extreme, high-stress internal testing, but this is the first known customer-facing instance of this issue after hundreds of thousands of X10 flights. Of note, this crash also led to the battery being ejected and ultimately catching fire. The fire was quickly put out with a fire extinguisher and there was no property damage outside of the X10. We do not believe the battery ejection and subsequent fire was related to the battery connector issue that led to the crash. Any lithium polymer battery cells are at risk of fire if the cells are punctured, but our internal testing involves drop tests of our batteries from up to 60 feet and we have not seen fires from this testing or any other incidents with X10. We published an NTO today for customers who want more detail. Within the last 24 hours, we have identified a telemetry signature for vehicles showing early warning signs of this failure mode so that preventive measures can be taken. Skydio Customer Support is now monitoring analytics for our entire online fleet of customer X10s and will proactively contact anyone operating X10s with signatures of excessive battery connector wear. We are also investigating adding alerting of the issue into products so customers will directly know when products need attention.

Wherever Apple builds phones is where everyone will tend to build devices with phone components, e.g. IoT and robots for consumers, enterprises, and governments, including drones. The National Security stakes are high and extend beyond Apple and phones.

A few years ago, the US drone industry was written off and many assumed DJI had won for good. We never believed that because we knew autonomy - the ability for drones to perform useful tasks on their own - could change the market.

It was an honor demoing @SkydioHQ X2D & 1:many multi-drone capability w/ @SecDef Lloyd J. Austin III. For small drones, harvesting the innovation in civilian markets & extending it for military use ensures that American soldiers get the best capability backed by scalable mfg.

Dock landing reliability update: since announcing Dock at Ascend we’ve done tens of thousands of flights in day, night, rain, and wind all over the country in all kinds of environments, including our worst-case internal stress testing rigs. We have yet to see any landing failures in real-world conditions. The only failures we’ve been able to generate have been in our worst-case stress rigs, and none of them were actual crashes. All of them would have been recovered by the operator telling the drone to take off and land again. Combining real-world flying (no failures) and stress testing, we’re at 99.8% landing reliability. The level of infrastructure, technology, and overall investment that goes into driving this kind of reliability for a robotic system is nuts. Super proud of the work our teams are doing here. (If working on cutting-edge flying robotic systems that save people’s lives is appealing, come work at @SkydioHQ!) The testing rig runs automatically, continuously, in the background, all the time (I’m listening to it buzz right now 🙂). Video of *all* the failures as well as a few of the successes on the latest version of our software.

The most rewarding part of our work is getting to partner with leaders like @PhillyPolice @PPDCommish. The clarity of vision for how drones can keep his community safer, combined with transparency in communication, is what makes DFR work.

"CATIA Champion" is definitely an apt (though not complete) description of @SkydioHQ's incredible Head of Hardware, Ben Thompson.

I am so excited to have Fritz Reber, literally the world expert on drones in public safety, joining us @SkydioHQ. There is a lot of important work to be done, but Skydio 2 already has the potential to be a life saving tool in these important use cases. linkedin.com/pulse/my-first-…

Skydio Drone as First Responder - changing outcomes all over America. Congratulations to the team @SFPD on an amazing program. Their pilots are 🔥

Last time I went to a playoff game with my dad (2001 game 7 vs. the Kings) they ended up winning it all. Good luck?

Not quite smart enough to tell the difference between this @LiamPayne cutout (that it's tracking) and a real person though.

Interestingly our reservation rate has increased since the Mavic Mini was announced, in spite of a long wait time for new reservation placers.

Skydio swims upstream (in a stiff current right now) by building our drones in the US.

Smart people working hard and great feedback from our customers.

Reminder: flying itself.

General psa that if you're not following @SkydioHQ on Instagram instagram.com/skydiohq/ you are missing out an unbelievable stream of content our customers create with Skydio 2. Autonomous robot film crew that follows people skiing, riding, driving, paragliding, and more.

Incredible new autonomous inspection product + Apollo moon landing history collide! A lot of awesomeness packed into tomorrow's event. Register and watch here: tinyurl.com/autonomousinspec…

Let's say one of the ingredients in the secret sauce, that can also be used for all kinds of other things, is now public :)

Sending immense gratitude and support to the countless individuals across public safety, energy utilities, critical infrastructure, and disaster relief who sprung to action in the devastating wake of Hurricane Helene. Skydio has had teams working around the clock to assist in response efforts throughout the Southeast. We’ve got boots on the ground across Florida, Tennessee, North Carolina, and surrounding states and we’re surging drones to areas most in need. One example - when Skydian and @CityofAsheville local Brian Doherty asked for help, colleagues near (Rachael Foster) and far (Matt Boerwinkle) immediately hit the road to aid @AshevillePolice @AshevilleFD in SAR efforts. And because the storm has significantly impacted many area bridges, this team is also working with the City Engineer to conduct inspections and create digital twins to help determine bridge safety and expedite the repair process. In moments like these, regardless of your status as a customer, @SkydioHQ is here to help. Please send me a DM if there’s anything we can do to assist your agency with recovery and damage assessment.

It's been pretty awesome seeing @warerobotics build an inventory tracking system using @SkydioHQ drones. There is a huge opportunity to help warehouses run more efficiently: techtarget.com/searchenterpr…

Making the shift to programmatic infrastructure inspections with autonomous drones allow @AEPnews technicians to monitor the nation’s largest electricity transmission system (~39,000 miles), assess equipment from anywhere in the world, and respond immediately to system failures. AEP is leading the way in energy utility drone program excellence, helping to deliver safe, reliable, affordable power to 5M+ customers.

I'm assuming we'd want the message to say "send it" no matter what the probability is?

Flight without fear of crashing is different. piped.video/xjDx9Y5wv_s

New use case.

Update: it turns out AI/autonomy replacing pilots is the dark theme in the background of the plot 🤷‍♂️

An arm strength exercise game?

Not exactly the use case we imagined when we made R1 and developed car follow, but damn.

Also a good opportunity to remind everyone that we’re setting the state of the art in robotics, AI, computer vision, and shipping the software to tens of thousands of real robots on a regular basis to help our customers do incredible things. Come join us!

And tomorrow back to work to scale up production and keep pushing the frontiers to make drones more useful for more people. Lots of exciting stuff coming in the months and years ahead.

DJI's products are being used to harm Ukrainians & yet they refuse to stop selling to Russia. This is a wakeup call to everyone using their products & a key moment for drone companies in democratic countries to step up & lead the future of the industry. theverge.com/22985101/dji-ae…

There is no one-size-fits-all approach for Dock-based DFR deployments. Here’s a look at how data factors into our calculations. linkedin.com/pulse/dfr-math-…

2022: 1 active pilot, 1 drone used for search and rescue missions Today: 12 active pilots with 3 drones in service 24/7 conducting SAR, fugitive apprehension operations, large event overwatch, perimeter security, traffic flow monitoring, and daily officer safety support functions. The evolution of the @FlaglerSheriff UAS program under the leadership of Cmdr. Jon Dopp and Sgt. Jorge Fuentes has been extraordinary. Excited to see what’s next as this team continues charting the course to DFR in “Main Street, USA”.

The ability to see what’s happening on the ground and not be noticed matters for Drone as First Responder operations. One way to achieve this is with a big, heavy, noisy drone that must fly at a very high altitude to not be noticed. A better way to achieve it is with a smaller, quieter, safer drone that can fly at any altitude and is inaudible at much lower altitudes. Data usually rules the day on this stuff, so we put X10 to the test against the DJI M300, a common alternative considered for DFR operations. Result? The X10 does not rise above ambient sound at 200 feet. In contrast, the M300 is 55% louder at the same altitude, and it’s also unavoidably *much* louder at takeoff and landing. Every 3 dB is a doubling of energy. When the DJI M300 emits 50.6 dB, the X10 registers just 48.7 dB - that 1.9 dB gap represents a 55% increase in sound intensity. For critical calls or tense situations, excess sound can compromise officer safety. One more reason why smaller is better for DFR.

Democratizing... car commercials?

With 8M+ residents, various waterways, transit systems, huge gatherings, urban canyons, and the most visited urban park in the country, NYC is a boss-level proving ground for technology in law enforcement. It’s deeply rewarding to see @SkydioHQ's vision for networks of autonomous, remotely operated drones doing useful work and keeping people safer becoming a reality in the biggest city in America. Congratulations to @NYCMayor, @NYPDPC, Deputy Commissioner @NYPDDaughtry, and all @NYPDnews teams putting Drone as First Responder tech to the test and to good use for the people of New York. Full announcement: piped.video/watch?v=TrBjDTcY…

Axon has long been an inspiration for us @SkydioHQ, bringing hardware and software together in powerful ways to keep everyone safer. Proud of the work the teams have done on this integration.

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Agreed.

Awesome to be back in Boston this week for @TheIACP #IACP2024 Annual Conference. With DFR Command, X10, Dock for X10, Skydio Connect Fusion, and, of course, @SkydioHQ Autonomy, the Drone as First Responder vision is now a scalable reality. Designing and engineering all of this stuff together in an integrated fashion, and then manufacturing all of it right here in the U.S. is a lot of work… which may be why no one else has done it. It’s not the easiest approach, but it’s the right approach to deliver a scalable, trustworthy, reliable solution. Demoing the product live from the roof of @BostonFire (thank you for the hospitality!) to leaders from dozens of agencies was a phenomenal experience - both seeing their reaction to the tech and, more importantly, hearing from them about how this will keep their officers and communities safer. The momentum around DFR in public safety is simply astounding and the next 12 months will be incredibly exciting. Source: @NBC10Boston

In reference to @SkydioHQ ? :)

Yes.