Skydio Autonomy
Make Skydio Autonomy your advantage
For the past ten years, we’ve built the skills of an expert pilot into our hardware and software so you can fly further, safer, and better, day or night. It takes the most sophisticated AI and the most advanced sensors in the world to see and solve complex navigation in real time. But that’s the power of Skydio Autonomy: intuitive, perceptive, and ready for action. So you can do more of what you do best.
How Skydio Autonomy works for you.
We do the flying. You focus on the task at hand.
Powered by advanced onboard computing, Skydio Autonomy sees, understands, and reacts in real time—day or night. With expert pilot instincts built in, our drones navigate the most complex environments, automatically avoiding obstacles as small as a ½-inch wire, so anyone can fly with confidence.
Eliminate blind spots.
With advanced navigation cameras, Skydio drones avoid obstacles a pilot may not see, even in the most complex environments.
Make the right decision, every time.
Trained on nearly a decade of flying hours, Skydio’s predictive AI makes the right decision in real time, mission after mission.
We fly the smartest route. You get time to prepare.
Skydio Pathfinder autonomously plans and executes the best flight path. Factoring terrain, buildings, geofences, flight policies, and airspace regulations. In Remote Flight Deck, simply select your destination, and Pathfinder charts the most effective route, adjusting to terrain elevation to maintain constant altitude AGL. Operators spend less time managing the flight, and more time preparing for the mission.
Skydio Forsight anticipates the right move. On F10 Lightrunner, the same autonomy that threads a multi-rotor through a parking garage is tuned for flight at 100 mph. A fixed-wing aircraft can't stop to avoid an obstacle, so Foresight looks ahead along the route and re-plans while there's still distance to maneuver. Pathfinder charts the route. Foresight flies it
We autonomously fly in the dark. You extend operations 24/7.
A first-of-its kind nighttime navigation system lets you fly in darkness or in low-light environments, with computer vision interpreting flight paths and avoiding obstacles to extend autonomous capabilities 24/7.
Bring the power of autonomous flight to tight indoor inspections, poorly lit infrastructure, and nighttime operations, with capabilities that other drones can only dream of.
See in the dark.
Skydio X10 and R10 are the only drones that fly fully autonomously at night.
Active illumination.
Mission-ready lighting options deliver active infrared or visible illumination—tailored to the demands of every mission.
We track what matters. You make the right move.
Shadow autonomously keeps a consistent visual lock on a subject—people or vehicles—more reliably than manual piloting, so operators can focus on tactical decisions.
Maintain visual contact.
Shadow isn’t limited by daylight. It seamlessly transitions between color and thermal sensors to track subjects at night or in low-visibility environments.
Subject following that thinks ahead.
Shadow continuously predicts subject movement by analyzing speed, direction, and visual appearance, enabling it to reacquire tracking even when the subject is briefly hidden behind obstacles.
We handle the airspace. You run safe operations.
The Skydio Airspace Assurance System (SAAS) combines real-time airspace data, your organization's policy settings, and each aircraft's operating limits to keep every flight within bounds, from preflight through landing. SAAS takes in ADS-B and other detect-and-avoid inputs and alerts operators to conflicts. If a collision becomes imminent, it maneuvers the aircraft away automatically.
Waiver rules enforced automatically.
Approved to 200 ft AGL? Autonomous flights never exceed it. Restricted airspace stays off limits unless your waiver allows it.
We deconflict aircraft automatically. You scale with confidence.
Skydio’s multi-drone deconfliction system lets multiple X10s operate safely and efficiently in the same airspace, with real-time notifications in Skydio Cloud that keep pilots informed when their drones are yielding or proceeding. This helps teams run simultaneous missions with confidence—while retaining full pilot control.
Automatic collision avoidance.
Skydio drones are aware of one another, supporting safe separation and helping prevent mid-air conflicts during multi-drone operations.
Prioritized flight control.
An intelligent priority system ensures the most mission-critical flights continue while others yield—keeping the right drones in the air at the right time.
We automate data capture. You get insights faster.
An advanced Spatial AI Engine provides Skydio drones complete awareness of their surroundings.
So you can repeat flights with centimeter-level consistency, conduct targeted inspections automatically, and build 2D and 3D models on the vehicle, in the field, in minutes. Complex data capture doesn't get more groundbreaking (or easier) than this.
3D Scan, made easy.
Generate digital twins, ready for export to photogrammetry applications.
See models instantly.
Evaluate models in the field to take immediate action and avoid costly repeat missions
We get there and get you home. All you do is press a button.
Navigate complex sites, even where GPS isn’t available, from parking garages and stairwells to vessels. Skydio’s autonomy algorithms continuously reason in 3D, building an understanding of the environment mid-air.
Our flying robots constantly map the environment as they fly through it, so when missions complete, they know the fastest, safest way back home.
Trustworthy autonomy is not an add-on. It's an architecture.
