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Skydio is the leading U.S. drone manufacturer and world leader in autonomous flight.
Joined November 2014
Designed, assembled, and supported right here in the USA. 🇺🇸. Skydio's manufacturing facility in Hayward, CA boasts a 60,000 SF space & a team of 200+ operators, engineers, technicians, facilities, warehouse operators, planning, & production employees.
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Welcome to the future, where we have autonomous drones filming humans flying with jet packs. 🚀#HoverboardsAreNext
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This is Skydio R1 Frontier Edition: a self-flying camera that knows what to film and flies itself to get the best shot, letting you capture otherwise impossible videos of your adventures. Learn more at
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The testing never stops at Skydio. Any guesses as to what we're working on? 👀🤖
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Skydio R1 builds a 3D map of the space around it as it flies, so it sees all of the stuff it shouldn't hit. Just do your thing, and there will be awesome 4K video waiting for you. No pilot or controller required.
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This is the Skydio 2 Dock. It combines the most advanced autonomous drone in the world with a compact, lightweight, weatherproof charging base station — letting you run drone operations in the background, without a pilot in the loop.
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With apologies to @elonmusk and the @tesla #autopilot team, we believe that Skydio 2 is the most advanced autonomous device of any kind that has ever been commercialized. Take a look under the hood and let us know if you agree.
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Your autonomous dream drone just got even better! 🤖🛰️. Skydio 2+ and the new 5ghz radio on the Skydio 2+ Beacon improve the range (up to 3km) & stability of GPS tracking performance so you can stay smoothly locked on for those epic pow day descents!
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Introducing Skydio 2. Breakthrough intelligence. Impossible video. The drone you've been waiting for.
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Can’t afford us. 🥱.
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Our new software products make it easy for anyone to gather aerial data. Skydio Autonomy™ Enterprise Foundation, 3D Scan, and House Scan let the drone work for you, instead of the other way around, so you can get better data, faster and safer. Learn more below!. #Skydio
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Skydio R1 understands and acts in the world through the Skydio Autonomy Engine, which combines breakthrough technology in advanced robotics, computer vision, and deep learning. The result is a tool anyone can pick up and use in minutes.
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The only other camera that can keep up with Skydio 2 to show it in action… is another Skydio 2.
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Today we're introducing Car Follow, the first major update for Skydio R1:
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Watch as Skydio 2 performs a simulated Search and Rescue/Tactical flight through dense obstacles, piloted by retired police Captain Fritz Reber
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To recognize all the times where you wish a self-flying camera hadn’t been around to capture that moment, we present our own #failsonSkydio
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At the heart of Skydio 2 is the NVIDIA Jetson TX2, the fastest, most power-efficient embedded AI computing device available. With 256 GPU cores capable of 1.3 trillion operations a second, Skydio 2 is a flying supercomputer @nvidia @NVIDIAEmbedded.
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Just announced: Skydio X10, a first-of-its-kind #drone designed for first responders, infrastructure operators, and the US and allied militaries around the world. Read more from our CEO @adampbry: . #SkydioAscend
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In our 3D Scan testing, we have generated dozens of high-fidelity models, and the results have impressed both our own team and our beta customers. We're excited to share with you a model that speaks to the future of 3D scanning and reconstruction. Read on:
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One is flying autonomously, the other is being piloted manually. Can you guess which one is flying itself? 🚀😜 #SkydiovsDJI #Skydio #Skydio2 #autonomy
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Skydio R1 lets you film footage of your adventures that would have been impossible to capture otherwise.
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Launch Skydio 2, shred the gnar, land Skydio 2, share the experience with the world. It’s that easy.
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With its advanced 3D mapping of the world around it, Skydio R1 can keep up with you through even the most complex environments.
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Today we’re announcing the Skydio 2 Dock — a self contained, weatherproof, charging base station for Skydio 2 that enables truly persistent operations for enterprise applications.
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Amazing work from Intel and Stanford: generating synthetic photographs using semantic label maps as input
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You've heard that #Skydio footage looks like a video game, but Ian Padgham (@origiful), actually turned his footage into a real life game of Mow-rio Kart! . Get to know the creator behind this masterpiece in our latest #SkydioFeaturedFlyer #blog post!
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Skydio 2’s perspective during a Skydio 2 Dock demo at @DroneDeploy Conference 2019 this week
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Landing on a target the size of a quarter is challenging. To ensure reliable Dock landings for persistent operations out in the field, we built planning algorithms that can take wind into account, and then put Skydio 2 through grueling conditions in our testing facility.
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Which is worth more? Skydio 2 on a wall or Banana on a wall? . *hint* it’s the inedible one.
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Skydio has completely reinvented the way drones fly, track subjects and avoid obstacles, but how did we get here? With lots of hard work and effort from the Skydio engineering team, that's how! Learn more about the engineering process in this week's Skydio Autonomy blog post.
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Testing out some new control algorithms. Skydio R1 - 1.Cartoonishly big cardboard tube - 0
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#MayThe4thBeWithYou . Pilot: Skydio 2.Director: Skydio 2 .DP: Skydio 2.Best Boy: Skydio 2.Stunts: @donttrythis .VFX: @ActionMovieKid . #Skydio #May4th #StarWarsDay
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Oh no! There are branches in Skydio R1's way! Might have to help it along. Wait, nevermind. With the 3D map of its environment it makes as it flies, R1 can figure out how to keep up.
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We are thrilled to announce a multi-year, multi-million dollar partnership with @EagleViewTech resulting in the largest commercial drone deployment ever! @SkydioHQ is disrupting residential roof inspection forever with the power autonomous drones! #SKYDIO.
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“And before you think that you’ve seen flying cameras before, we promise you’ve never seen anything like the R1: as Bry told us two years ago, Skydio’s goal was “to provide a trustworthy and magical experience.” . They’ve delivered.”
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Skydio has now donated over $300,000 in drones & training to those defending Ukraine in the face of unprovoked aggression.
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An update for our Skydio communities. After careful consideration, we have made the decision to sunset our consumer drone offerings and shift our focus to exclusively serve enterprise and public sector customers. Read more:
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Skydio R1 is always improving. Today R1 has picked up some amazing new Skills, with One-Shots, Cable-Cam, and Stabilization.
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Today, we are celebrating the results of our months-long collaboration with the Chula Vista Police Department and the San Diego UAS Integration Pilot Program: a groundbreaking FAA authorization allows Chula Vista PD to fly drones in emergency scenarios just beyond line of sight.
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Free your hands and mind. Skydio R1 can film your adventures through thick and thin (branches, that is)
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We are incredibly excited to release SymForce to the open-source community!. 1/4🧵Thread
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This was just the beginning. 🚀.
10 years ago today two MIT grad students presented a paper on drone flight at ICRA. Last year their spin-off @SkydioHQ became the first drone company to be valued at more than 1 billion dollars. The original paper:
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Skydio R1 flies itself by using its 13 cameras to build a 3D map of the environment around it, then planning its flight path 4 seconds into the future. It's not magic — it's the most advanced autonomous device you can buy.
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We've said it before, and we'll say it again. This is only the beginning. #SKYDIO 🚀🚀🚀.
*exclusive* Skydio has raised $171m at a $1bn+ valuation—the first American drone maker to become a unicorn. Led by @a16z .Signals broader confidence for the US in the second act of drone wars. Skydio valuation raises American hopes in drone war with China
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The Skydio team is proud to announce our selection as the sole platform for the US Army Short Range Reconnaissance (SRR) program.
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If you're thinking about buying a drone, wait. We've got something new coming this fall. Sign up to learn more at
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Introducing 3D Scan Indoor Capture - Skydio's game-changing solution for digitizing large-scale indoor environments! .Learn more:
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A new era is dawning for drone inspection. Welcome to the future. 🚀
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We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again. We are still very early in the history of autonomous drones. We’re just getting started folks. 🚀
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"My Skydio 2 is the only biking buddy that keeps up with me, and doesn’t whine about the climb. Put it up, let it follow, and forget it." - @donniesorensen, this week's #SkydioFeaturedFlyer #SKYDIO
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Say goodbye to rope access inspections! 👀. Shell and CAN USA are using #Skydio AI-powered #drones to make offshore inspections safer and more precise. #utilities #inspection #droneinspection
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Today we're announcing the expansion of our world-class autonomy team with the hiring of four top PhD graduates from the Robotics and Perception Group. READ:
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Paired with the optional Controller, Skydio 2 can be flown like any other drone. without having to worry about crashing, with groundbreaking obstacle avoidance in all directions
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You’ve never seen like this before. Meet the Skydio #X10. The best sensors for a drone this small, piloted by the most advanced AI in the sky. To get the data you need, wherever and whenever you need it. Learn More: #drones #autonomous #dfr
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With Beacon Orbit, you can now get the cinematic movement you're looking for in your shots! Plus, with the updated GPS tracking distance, Skydio 2 owners have the flexibility to get just the right shot while on the go!. Credit: @JamesHustler . #Skydio #Skydio2 #Orbit
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“It is a robot that can capture for you, and do it in a way that I don’t think anything else on the market can even compete with.” - @Casey #TechTuesday #SKYDIO
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Our latest software update for the self-flying Skydio R1 enables flight over large bodies of water, Car Tracking for all Cinematic Skills and One-Shots, and the new Hyperlapse clip creator! . Available today via the Skydio app for iOS and Android.
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Get the shot while staying focused on the activity at hand. You can put your phone away because Skydio R1 is a self-flying camera.
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Wait for it. We've seen Skydio 2 do some pretty crazy things, but the "Marshmellow Drop" takes the cake. Someone please caption this for us. Credit: @taniplus1 #Skydio #Skydio2
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Did we mention that with Interval Mode, Skydio 2 can also take stunning photos like this while autonomously flying itself to keep up with you?
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The Pawson twins AKA the Spider-Man twins, exploring the sights and sounds of Melbourne as only they can!
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