Adam Bry

𝐀𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐥𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐭 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐄𝐫𝐚 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐞’𝐫𝐞 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝 It is an honor and a joy to work with the critical industries our civilization runs on to build a new era of Flying Robot Infrastructure that helps keep us all safer and makes our world more efficient. Together with our customers we have made immense progress towards this future over the last year. You can see it in the metrics - 2M flights/year and exponentially growing - and you can see it in the thousands of individual stories where a drone helped save a life, protect an asset, or just save someone from tedious manual work. But we’re still just getting started. On stage at Skydio Ascend, we announced two new categories of products that will shape the next decade: • The software Commands: DFR Command, Asset Command, and Security Command. We’re now tapping the true potential of software-defined, autonomous, dock-based drones with industry-specific applications for Public Safety, Energy Infrastructure, and Physical Site Security. Each Command brings together specialized autonomy, customized interfaces and workflows, and deep integrations with complementary software and systems to orchestrate fleets of flying robots and deliver end-to-end solutions for each industry. This makes drones easier to adopt and integrate than ever before, and orders of magnitude more effective once you’re operating them. • F10 Lightrunner: This is the most advanced fixed-wing drone that has ever existed. It’s launched and caught with a robotic arm (RTOL); its gimbal is on the wingtip which means it never gets obstructed by the wing (SideEye); and it has the evolution of @SkydioHQ Autonomy for fixed-wing aircraft (Foresight). All of these together represent one of the great feats of engineering in the history of aircraft, but we didn’t do it just for fun. F10 will bring the benefits of Drone as First Responder and fully automated drone inspection of critical infrastructure to all the landmass in the free world with 100mph speed and up to 30-mile coverage radius. We build the coolest technology in the world, with the best team in the world, to serve the most important customers in the world. LFG.

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Another day, another new product shipping from @SkydioHQ. Controller 2 ships to customers today. Docks are a huge part of the drone future, but controllers aren’t going anywhere. Bigger, brighter screen, better 5g performance, all the I/O our customers asked for, and brings the Software Commands to the edge for seamless and integrated dock + controller-flown operations… just might be the best GCS in the game.

Skydio is announcing a $1.2B investment from Axon today. Axon is a special company: pioneering products, an optimistic vision of the future, an inclusive and thoughtful approach to building towards that future, and a truly special team. They have been an inspiration for me and Skydio on many fronts, and they have been an incredible partner in bringing the benefits of DFR to public safety. Axon is the only company I’ve encountered that I could see acquiring Skydio and having it actually work. Both companies seriously considered doing it. But we came to believe we can both be most useful to the world as independent companies. With this investment, we’re doubling down on a phenomenally successful product and GTM partnership. The vast majority of our state and local public safety business was already going through Axon and they will now become our exclusive reseller for US and Canada public safety. Similarly, Skydio becomes the exclusive drone Axon will sell in those markets. And the investment gives Axon a large and well deserved stake in the enormous upside of Skydio. Skydio didn’t need the money, so this is mostly going to provide liquidity for existing shareholders and employees - which I am equally excited about. What does this mean for our customers? It means Skydio remains a fully independent company (Axon is a minority shareholder and is buying non-voting stock) with the resources and mandate to continue making massive investments to build the flying robot infrastructure our civilization needs across all of the industries we serve from energy, construction, the military, transportation, and of course public safety. In public safety, this strengthens a partnership that has enabled us to reach and better serve thousands of agencies, and it opens up even more product-level collaboration. But we also remain committed to integrating and collaborating with any/every company we need to to deliver results for our public safety customers, including companies that Skydio and Axon may have competitive overlap with. We are charting a course to build one of the great physical AI companies of this century with civilization-scale impact.

I love getting to be the CEO of Skydio and I also love endurance sports, which means I also also love using endurance sports as a mindset and analogy for what it takes to be successful over long time horizons in our industry. Sometimes you just need to outlast and outsuffer everyone. I turned 40 earlier this year, and I was keen to see (perhaps prove) I could run a 5 minute mile. When I was 20 years old my PR was 6 minutes, when I was 30 it was 5:30, and at 40 I’m faster than I was 1 or 2 decades ago at 4:59.88. A first order linear fit suggests I should be good for a 4:30 mile when I turn 50 :) And @SkydioHQ is also getting faster and faster as we get older, as evidenced by the accelerating torrent of hardware and software we’re launching these days. Video proof of the mile attached (courtesy of an X10 with subject tracking) with my wonderful kids racing me down the home straight and then bringing me a water bottle which I was in too much pain to be aware of.

As Mark Twain said, “I didn’t have the engineering skills to design you a small drone, so I designed you a large one instead.” Well @SkydioHQ is great at engineering, so we do make smaller drones. But we make really, really big conference booths. If you’re on the lookout for DFR at IACP, you want small drones but big booths. Come check ours out.

Super proud to support the US Coast Guard.

Congratulations to Tesla on a great flying car Roadster demo, earning a solid 2nd place in coolest robotics tech demos of the year behind Skydio F10.

.@DominionEnergy just added 100 Docked drones to their fleet. Just out of sight for most people, the way our nation’s critical infrastructure is inspected and maintained is being revolutionized by @SkydioHQ Flying Robots. Dominion is moving linemen and substation electricians into remote drone pilot roles. The people who know the grid best are flying it (they used to climb for these angles), and now docked drones at substations let them see what’s happening to make informed decisions before any crews roll out, saving ~8-12 hours per event. Pioneering leadership by the entire team at Dominion.

Skydio has two objectives to support US and Allied National Security: 1) Help build the domestic industrial might to win a robotic war of attrition if necessary 2) Apply the best of our dual-use technology foundation to equip our soldiers with world-leading capability We took a huge step forward on (2) yesterday with the launch of ISR Command software for our military and other national security customers. ISR Command is:   • Scalable: leverages a decade of development in Skydio autonomy to deliver autonomous workflows in GPS-denied environments   • Collaborative: Bi-directionally integrates with TAK and NGC2 to give operators simultaneously the best in flight capabilities and the most open, integrated platform that has ever existed in this class   • Persistent: breaks the 1:1 pilot:drone ratio to enable scalable 1:many operations It orchestrates fleets of drones to deliver the most economical, effective ISR capability that has ever existed. It follows the launch of Security, Asset, and DFR Commands two weeks ago at Ascend, as we build out the hardware and software Flying Robot Infrastructure to make our civilization safer and more efficient.

Tomorrow at AUSA, we’ll unveil something we held back at Ascend, built for the hardest ISR missions. Streaming live 10/13, 5:45 PM EDT: live.skydio.com/public/event…

8:30 am PT tomorrow, don't miss it. live.skydio.com/public/event…

𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗹𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗼𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗻 Everything we’re hiring for now at @SkydioHQ is guaranteed to be a challenging, impactful, super rewarding job for the right person. But the supply chain roles are special. We’re building a new breed of drones, independent of the legacy supply chains in China. It’s hard, it’s fun, and it really matters. Director-level role for an awesome new program: lnkd.in/gWdrK7kX ME GSM: lnkd.in/gFknQHq3 EE GSM: lnkd.in/gtHXAwy3

Fundamental breakthrough in Flying Robots, rapidly approaching. 9/23: skydio.com/ascend-live

“Transparency is at the core of the drone program” “Having this technology and this tool has been extremely beneficial as it relates to de-escalation” “Drones have been dispatched 9,800 times. 73% of the time they arrive to a scene before officers and 9% of the time they're able to cancel patrol officers, freeing them up to respond to the next call.” “This is an historical time for the Los Angeles Police Department.” “The drones have helped track suspects at the end of pursuits, especially in areas like tight alleyways or tunnels.” “The LAPD was able to quickly locate a young child who was reported missing. We dispatched the drone. Officers were able to go overhead and find that young child at night near a freeway overpass.” “LAPD has a public online database where anyone can see when and where a drone was flown and for how long.” Congratulations to the @LAPDHQ and Assistant Chief @LAPDETingirides on an incredible first year of Drone as First Responder. This is what DFR is all about.