The Skydio Dock, with a Skydio X2 drone. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge
Skydio is the only company making drones that can largely fly themselves, able to sense and avoid objects so seamlessly, you can hand a toddler the controls. But legally and practically, they need a lot of human oversight. Who’s going to charge the drone, update it, download its footage, and be the oft legally required visual observer to make sure it doesn’t crash into anything nearby?
But for years, Skydio has been working on the gadget that could eliminate pesky humans...
