This Is: How Skydio Makes A Drone
In California no less
This week we take you inside the drone manufacturing operation of Skydio to see how they make their flagship X10 product.
Skydio is the largest drone maker in the U.S. and produces its hardware right here in the great state of California. Does it make as many drones as China’s DJI? It most certainly does not. But does it make very sophisticated drones packed full of the best computer vision and AI technology? Yes, it does.
In this episode, we show you what goes into making a drone step-by-step as part of our This Is series.
You can catch our previous episodes on Foundation and its robots and Neuralink and its brains below.
Excellent in every way. My son designed many of the parts featured so of course I am thrilled to see this. The opportunity for hardware engineers to be part of the manufacturing process again, now that companies are building here, is so good for careers and the country. Great piece.
Very cool. What’s your sense on how much more automation they need / is possible to really approach the same volume as DJI some day? E.g does DJI automate the calibration and test flight portions or have alternate mechanisms for QA?