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Oct 2024China sanctioned Skydio over sales to Taiwan’s National Fire Agency. Because batteries were still sourced from China, Skydio temporarily rationed batteries to one per drone and accelerated supplier diversification.
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Updated Jul 28, 2026
Overview
Skydio is a privately held U.S. robotics and aerospace company that designs, assembles, and supports AI-powered autonomous drones. Its mission is to make flight safer and easier through computer vision, machine learning, and autonomous navigation; its current focus is public safety, defense/national security, utilities, infrastructure inspection, and other enterprise use cases. Founded by MIT researchers who later worked on Google’s Project Wing, Skydio says its products are built and supported in the United States.
Primary product
Autonomous drone systems and the associated Skydio Cloud software platform—especially the X10/X10D, R10, Skydio Dock/Dock for X10, and autonomy, inspection, mapping, DFR, and fleet-management software.
Founded
2014
Headquarters
San Mateo, California, United States
Team size
Approximately 700–900; a company-profile estimate lists 772, while Revelio Labs estimates 885 worldwide as of December 2025.
Work style
Hybrid
Open Positions
114 jobs at Skydio
Failure Analysis Engineer
On-siteOperationsHayward, California, United States2d ago
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