Katie Q

[Skydio @SkydioHQ]

LIVE: Skydio CEO and co-founder talks drone dominance, unveils new autonomy and mission software capabilities. https://t.co/rg4TSloqGc

[Skydio @SkydioHQ]

🚨 New additions to the family of flying robots built for the people who respond, inspect, and protect.

A comprehensive look at our flight plan ➤ https://t.co/Us9ysmYLuC

[Skydio @SkydioHQ]

BREAKING: Meet the new F10 Lightrunner

100 mph, 30-mile radius, 120-minute flight time, launched and caught by MegaDock's robotic arm. No runway, no crew.

Say where, F10 handles how. https://t.co/tL2dGx905q

#SkydioAscend

[Niko McCarty. @NikoMcCarty]

When you go skiing in the winter, and see those big machines spitting out snow, know that they are spitting out purified proteins made from dead bacteria.

I didn’t realize this until recently! Basically, they take Pseudomonas syringae cells — not engineered; a natural microbe found on plants — and grow them up in huge bioreactors. The cells make ice-nucleating proteins, which sit on their outer membranes and help ice crystals form. The cells are concentrated, freeze-dried, and sterilized until only these proteins remain.

The reason these proteins are useful is because they help water molecules form ice more quickly. Water can remain liquid even below 0°C, and only freezes when enough molecules form into a crystal. The proteins have, on their surfaces, repeating snippets of amino acids that help water molecules organize into that shape.

So these snow machines just blast super cold water with these proteins, and the two hit the air, mix together, and immediately freeze into snow.

[San Francisco Police @SFPD]

WATCH: An SFPD drone located a kitesurfer in distress offshore on Aug 18, appearing to be caught in a strong ebb current.

Drone pilots guided @SFFDPIO rescuers to the kitesurfer, who was safely brought back to shore with no reported injuries.

[Jeff Huber 🇺🇸 @jhuber]

https://t.co/FyyaKTd0js

[Adam Bry @adampbry]

The robots are here and they fly.

Today at Ascend, we announced:
• R10 - a breakthrough indoor drone that uses AI and autonomy to get into the most dangerous places so people don’t have to.
• F10 - a prototype Robotic Takeoff and Land (RTOL) drone that will unlock long-range, long-endurance, high-speed missions. It will eventually put all the landmass on Earth within reach of an autonomous, Docked drone. Imagine having all of our transportation and energy networks instantly accessible, or being able to get eyes on scene for every emergency, any natural disaster, immediately, anywhere.
• Continued evolution of our AI software to make X10 multi-drone native so one operator can command many drones, and the robots work for us rather than the other way around.
• Myriad other improvements to our hardware and software to make them more capable, more reliable, and more useful, for more people.

This is a special moment as drones transition from being useful tools to critical infrastructure for our most critical industries. It is an immense challenge - and a true joy - to develop this technology and deploy it in service of the most important customers in the world. And we’ve now got a whole Family of Flying Robots to meet the need. I’m so proud of our team at Skydio for pulling off the impossible.

You can watch the full keynote in the link below, or just check out these sick highlights of the Cybertruck-mounted robot arm snatching F10 out of the air, R10 flying through <10” gaps with ease, and X10s going off out of Docks like fireworks.

[Adam Bry @adampbry]

Incredible - perhaps unintentional - testimonial on the impact of Drone as First Responder in San Francisco. “Crime in San Francisco… that s*** is over with. They got drones.”

[Skydio @SkydioHQ]

X10 for the win 🇺🇸 🦾

[Secretary Sean Duffy @SecDuffy]

American drone dominance starts by letting our innovators INNOVATE!

That’s why today we unveiled our “Beyond Visual Line of Sight” rule.

This is how our country leads on aviation 🇺🇸

[Adam Bry @adampbry]

@SecDef @DOGE Using an X10D to deliver new drone policy documents to @SecDef was not one of the use cases we designed for. Luckily it's a versatile platform.

LFG.

[Pushmeet Kohli @pushmeet]

Happy to introduce AlphaGenome, @GoogleDeepMind's new AI model for genomics.

AlphaGenome offers a comprehensive view of the human non-coding genome by predicting the impact of DNA variations. It will deepen our understanding of disease biology and open new avenues of research.

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

BREAKING: First ever Tesla Model Y robotaxi with no-one in the drivers seat spotted testing on public roads in Austin, Texas!

Tesla's new "Robotaxi" wordmark/logo is on the side of the vehicle.

[Adam Bry @adampbry]

Our Asimov software release for X10D is a culmination of operational feedback from deployed units across every branch of the @DeptofDefense, 25+ allied forces around the world, and most importantly, everything that we’ve learned in Ukraine. With this software release, X10D is the most survivable, capable, ISR sUAS in its class in the world. Congratulations to the @SkydioHQ team that made this happen, and thank you to all of our customers who made it possible.

[Tesla Optimus @Tesla_Optimus]

I’m not just dancing all day, ok

[Adam Bry @adampbry]

Hayward, CA

[Businessweek @BW]

Drones are getting smarter, deadlier and more indispensable, and almost all of them come from China. This Silicon Valley company wants to change that. @drakepbennett has more https://t.co/NceOme6Zwb

[Katherine Boyle @KTmBoyle]

Our third annual American Dynamism 50 is out. Read about 50 companies shaping the fight of the future. https://t.co/Eot7uAPuMQ

[Adam Bry @adampbry]

𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝗮𝗱 𝘄𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗗𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴: the wind is so stiff the hard-mounted security camera filming this video is shaking.

The drone's autonomy system is using computer vision to stay locked onto the Dock in spite of the rain, while the control system is estimating and adapting to the wind in realtime. It intentionally times its landing for a lower wind and higher alignment moment.

[Skydio @SkydioHQ]

🚨 On 3/4, @CobbPoliceDept flew Skydio X10 to quickly track &amp; detain a suspect who allegedly assaulted a woman &amp; fled the scene.

Footage shows thermal tracking as the man moved through woods along I-75. Officers located him in minutes. 🦾