Skydio News
Latest Skydio news, funding rounds and robotics & AI coverage. $1.7B raised. 6 articles tracked by The Robotics Media.
About Skydio
Skydio designs and manufactures autonomous drones and the software that powers them, serving public safety, defense, utilities, and infrastructure inspection customers. Founded in 2014 by MIT graduates Adam Bry, Abe Bachrach, and Matt Donahoe, the company pivoted from consumer drones to enterprise and government markets, exiting the consumer segment in 2023. It manufactures its hardware in the United States, including a factory in Hayward, California.
Its core hardware lines are the X10 and X10D (a national-security variant) drones, the R10 indoor inspection drone, and the F10 Lightrunner, paired with docking stations (Dock for X10, MegaDock) that enable autonomous, remote deployment for Drone-as-First-Responder (DFR) programs. Software products include DFR Command, Security Command, Asset Command, and ISR Command, built on Skydio's proprietary autonomy and obstacle-avoidance technology.
Skydio has raised funding from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Next47, IVP, NVIDIA, Linse Capital, KDDI, and Axon Enterprise. In November 2026, Axon announced a $1.2 billion cash-and-stock investment in Skydio, becoming its exclusive public-safety drone distributor across the US and Canada and raising Skydio's valuation to roughly $5.2 billion pre-money with Axon holding about a 37% stake.
Key facts
Products by Skydio
- Skydio Dock (Autonomous Vehicle, 2025) — Skydio Dock is a weatherproof drone-in-a-box station that houses, charges and automatically launches a Skydio X10 quadcopter for autonomous missions. Once the m...
- Skydio X10 (Drone, 2023) — Autonomous enterprise drone used for public safety, inspection, and security operations.
- F10 Lightrunner (Drone, 2025) — Lightweight drone built for extended-range defense and tactical operations.
- Skydio R10 (Drone, 2024) — Enclosed drone designed for autonomous indoor industrial inspection.
- Dock for X10 (Hardware, 2023) — Weatherproof docking station enabling remote, autonomous deployment and charging of X10 and F10 drones.
- DFR Command (Software) — Software platform for managing drone-as-first-responder public safety operations.
- Security Command (Software) — Software for autonomous drone-based physical security and surveillance.
- Asset Command (Software) — Software for managing automated drone-based asset inspection workflows.
- Skydio X10D (Drone, 2023) — National-security-focused variant of the X10 drone with secure, NDAA-compliant hardware.
- MegaDock (Hardware, 2025) — Larger-capacity dock supporting multiple F10 drones for scaled autonomous deployment.
Funding rounds
- Strategic — $1.2B — 2026 — led by Axon Enterprise
- Series F — $110M — 2026
- Series E — $170M — 2024 — led by KDDI
- Series E — $230M — 2023 — led by Linse Capital
Latest Skydio news
- Skydio Lands $1.2B From Axon, Handing It Exclusive US Drone Distribution — Axon is investing $1.2 billion in Skydio and becoming its exclusive distributor for public-safety drones in the US and Canada, pushing the autonomous-...
- Skydio Debuts 100 MPH F10 Lightrunner Fixed-Wing Drone And MegaDock At Ascend 2026 — Skydio pushed beyond quadcopters at its Ascend 2026 conference, unveiling the 100 mph F10 Lightrunner fixed-wing drone, a robotic MegaDock that launch...
- FCC's Carr Claims $5B Drone Investment — The Math Mixes Cash, Valuations And Pledges — FCC Chairman touts $5B into US drones at SBA summit, but the filing bundles cash, market caps and five-year promises.
- US Army Advances Five Vendors To Manufacturing After SRR Drone Fly-Off — Parrot, Skydio, Skycutter, Teal Drones and Vantage Robotics were picked for manufacturing-readiness assessments after the Army's platoon-level Short R...
- Naval Academy Launches Drones From Yard Patrol Craft In First-Ever YP NEXT Block — Midshipmen just wrapped the U.S. Naval Academy's inaugural YP NEXT training block, using Yard Patrol craft as motherships for Havoc AI's Rampage, Blac...
- Skydio Crosses 1,000 Dock Deployments And 4 Million Flights One Year After Launch — One year after shipping the first production Skydio Dock, the San Mateo drone maker has crossed 1,070 deployed docks across public safety, utilities a...