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Skydio: “Welcome to drone-henge” – America’s drone company launches it’s FPV drone… the R10

Adam Juniper

17 September 2025

Skydio talks about the progress of autonomy – data driven, dock-launched drones are safer – so more drones per person is the future…

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Adam Bray: “The future is here, it’s just not evenly distributed” Skydio CEO tells people – before going on to introduce a number of companies using Skydio tech which he suggests will be the future.

Bray did say “the one bit of bad news” is that the company isn’t able to keep up with demand for the X10 drone, before going to say that it isn’t the only class of drone that matters… before turning to the idea of an FPV drone and showing pictures of hacked DJI Avata 2 drones and others.

The R10 was shown flying and using AI to avoid obstacles and fly into a building. (Image credit: Skydio R10)
The R10 FPV style drone is designed to serve for police officers aiming to fly into buildings, perhaps to negotiate with criminals, so features speakers and a mic. It will sell for $5,995 and features turtle mode, so it flips itself over if it falls the wrong way up, and enough power that if it gets indoors and lands it can support up to 3 hours of negotiations, relaying video.

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Matt of the New York police talk about the use of Skydio drones to the Skydio CEO (Image credit: Skydio)
Bray told the assembled crowd that “we’ve always thought these things were aerospace devices,” as an explanation of why the company has always built its products in the USA.

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Bray use the rest of the keynote to tell Skydio users that the company intends to be very open about reliability issues that is has addressed over the years before the annual ‘Ascend’ events, and highlighted issues with the design of the remote controller, and another with grinding on drone’s motors.
A red light of death had, apparently, caused the number of mission failures.

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The issue and fix in the controller for the X10 revealed in the presentation Ascend. (Image credit: Skydio)
The company went on to announce its ‘flight incident rate’ will now be public – Bray called them crashes on stage, but suggested it was a term that wouldn’t be used again! The information will share where the issues are ‘human factors’ or technical, and the ‘reliability dashboard’ will be public.
Bray also took the chance to highlight that a parachute was an option on the X10 to further reduce safety, which he compared against the risk factor of a DJI drone without a parachute falling on someone. Yes, the presentation was not shy of sneaking in the odd reference to Chinese competition.
Interestingly, he also suggested the data suggested dock-launched flights are 3 times safer than controller-launched flights.
Other new features include the option of an RTK attachment, and software to correct the camera’s rolling shutter, but the one that got a round of applause was a ‘dropper’ – an attachment that can drop small items from the drone.

(Image credit: Skydio)
After the specifics, the presentation turned to present the software that allows an operator to control four drones at once – FAA approved. The scenario shown was distinctly dystopian, but it did work!
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Adam is our resident expert on all aspects of camera drones and drone photography, from buying guides on the best choices for aerial photographers of all ability levels to the latest rules and regulations on piloting drones.

He is the author of a number of books including The Complete Guide to Drones, The Smart Smart Home Handbook, 101 Tips for DSLR Video and The Drone Pilot’s Handbook.

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