Companies that make drones and drone accessories.

DJI is one of the top consumer drone manufacturers, known mainly for their Mavic series. The Mavic series has become the quintessential drone for new to intermediate pilots and videographers, and the simultaneous launch in late 2018 of the Mavic 2 Pro and Mavic 2 Zoom was huge news in the industry. In 2020 they launched the revolutionary Mavic Mini, packing high-quality drone features into a tiny drone that weighs only a half-pound.

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Although Parrot stepped away from the toy drone market in 2019, they still produce one of the best drones on the market. Their ANAFI camera drone is always a favorite in lists around the web. Parrot also designs, develops, and markets consumer products for smartphones and tablets other than consumer UAVs and drones. They are also working with the U.S. Department of Defense to build short-range military reconnaissance aircraft.

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Yuneec first started innovating in the aircraft industry before creating the first commercially successful, ready-to-fly fixed wing RC airplane. Eventually, they transitioned into their increasingly popular aerial video quadcopters. In early 2017 they announced the launch of the Typhoon H520, designed specifically for commercial applications, as well as a huge customer service initiative to provide high quality service. In 2018, adding to their list of first, they launched the first ever voice-controlled drone, Mantis Q.

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Kespry manufactures drones made specifically for capturing, viewing, and analyzing aerial imagery and survey data. Their customers include aggregates, mining, construction and surveying companies.

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Autel Robotics has been delivering solutions for new aerial exploration through their market-leading quadcopter and camera drone technology. They emphasize transforming complex technology into simple solutions, and creating easy-to-use aerial devices for photography/filming and imaging.

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Skydio was founded in 2014, and in 2018 launched R1, which was widely regarded as a breakthrough in autonomous drones for consumers and as a platform for commercial development. In 2019, the company launched Skydio 2, which sold out in a single day. Skydio 2 is built around the Skydio Autonomy Engine – the most advanced flying artificial intelligence system in the world.

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Insitu runs the gamut of drone services, providing hardware in the form of commercial-focused drones; software for extracting intelligence from raw data gathered by drones; and drone-related services for commercial applications, such as surveying and reconnaissance. Their ScanEagle drone was designed for aerial imaging, with diverse applications such as agricultural assessment, oil or gas pipeline inspection, and force protection.

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Delair is a leading provider of drone-based solutions for enterprise. The company’s offerings combine high performance, long range fixed-wing UAV hardware with sophisticated analytics technology and operational services. They’re well known for their fixed-wing drones, such as the UX11, but Delair doesn’t only make drones. They also offer a full suite of industry-specific analytics software for aerial data processing as well as intuitive flight planning tools. Their end-to-end solutions are used globally by customers in industries such as mining, construction, agriculture, utilities, transportation, and oil and gas.

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EHANG designs and manufactures drones that can be controlled entirely via a smartphone app. Their GhostDrone 2.0 has some great features such as self-protection, which makes it automatically return in case of low battery or lost communication; dual sensors, so that a backup kicks in if the first sensor fails; and app control, designed so that “smart algorithms” kick in to reduce human error during flight. EHang continues to explore the boundaries of the sky with their pilotless air taxi, the EHang 216, which seats two passengers. The EHang 216 made its first U.S. trial flight in early 2020.

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senseFly is a Parrot-owned company founded in 2009 by a team of robotics researchers, and is an industry leader in mapping drones. Their data collection and processing tools are employed by customers around the world in fields such as surveying, agriculture, GIS, industrial inspection, mining, and humanitarian aid.

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Aerialtronics designs, produces and services commercial unmanned aircraft systems. Their latest generation, the Altura Zenith, combines state of the art technology with a flat, compact, and lightweight design. With a wide range of payload compatibility, from dual vision cameras to gas sniffers to radiation detectors, Aerialtronics’ systems can be applied to a wide variety of segments including: Safety & Security, Inspection, Surveying & Mapping, Agriculture, and Research.

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Freefly is the inventor of the Movi Gimbal Stabilizer, and they’ve also been responsible for pulling surfers via drones (coolness factor through the roof for that!). In 2015 they unveiled their new, highly professional drone, the Freefly ALTA, which has been so popular that the Alta has become synonymous with Freefly, and is commonly used interchangeably with the company’s name.

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Flyability created Elios, the world’s first collision-tolerant flying robot capable of remaining stable after contact, safe to fly close to people, and developed specifically for industrial inspection professionals. Their collision-tolerant system allows, for the first time, safe and easy access to places out of reach of current drone systems. In 2015 Flyability won the UAE Drones for Good Award, which came with a whopping $1M prize!

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Draganfly Innovations hand-makes their systems in North America. They produce drone systems that specialize in public safety applications, aerial photography, industrial inspection, and education/research.

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Action Drone USA produces portable industrial drones to help companies get jobs done safely and efficiently. They manufacture rigs that are specific to any commercial application and are easily compatible with third-party software.

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GoPro had a failed first launch of their Karma drone in 2016, and they officially closed up shop on their drone product line in 2018. However, GoPro is still one of the most popular payload options to add onto a drone. Many drones are made with mounts specifically designed for a GoPro camera, like Force1’s F100GP Ghost. GoPro is of course known for making action sports cameras, which are some the best in the industry for capturing aerial photos and videos using UAVs.

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Intel is leading the industry in terms of innovation and creating new technology to meet developing needs. Most recently they’ve teamed up with Disney to create aerial light shows that can replace fireworks displays. Intel both creates drones and the systems required for other companies to create their own drones.

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Ambarella is the leading developer of low-power, high-definition (HD) and Ultra HD video compression and image processing solutions. Most notably they create chips specifically designed to allow cameras on drones to function better in low-light or high-contrast situations, and produce much smoother video.

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FLIR is a company that brings innovative sensing solutions into daily life for drones through thermal imaging systems, visible light imaging systems, locator systems, measurement and diagnostic systems, and advanced heat detection systems. FLIR’s imaging solutions are not limited just to use on drones.

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Workswell creates state-of-the-art thermal imaging systems designed for commercial unmanned aerial vehicles. The Workswell WIRIS 2nd gen thermal imaging system allows for real-time sensor control via a standard RC radio transmitter that communicates directly with the drone.

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UDI creates larger sized quadcopters and multicopters for consumers. Many of their drones are less than $100 and feature cameras for aerial photography and videography, and three of their drones are featured on our list of cheap drones for beginners.

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Hubsan manufactures some of the most popular consumer drones on the market. Their X4 series are excellent starter quadcopters and are featured in our list of cheap drones for beginners.

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Cheerson is an extremely popular drone manufacturer. They developed the Cheerson CX-10, the smallest quadcopter to date and a top seller on Amazon, also featured on our list of cheap drones for beginners.

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Syma Toys is a China-based company that manufacturers consumer drones, quadcopters, helicopters, and even an RC car/quadcopter hybrid. Their X5C is featured on our list of cheap drones for beginners, and is a great starter drone for new pilots who want to learn how to fly a quadcopter.

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Sky Viper creates drone for aerial video, racing, and general recreation (as indicated on their website, where one of their taglines is “Serious Performance. Serious Fun.”). Sky Viper has a flight simulation app (in Google Play and the Apple Store) for those pilots interested in buying their drones but want to learn a little more about how the drone might handle, which is pretty neat.

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Blade produces quadcopters and mini-drones for the consumer market. Many of their drones are great for beginners and offer people cheap ways to learn more about aerial photography.

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AguaDrone is a fully modular waterproof drone with a quick change accessory system and an entire family of accessories that include: Find Pod, wifi enabled sonar fish finder that sends images to you smartphone or handheld device; Fish Pod, a remotely controlled payload release that can carry your bait and line and drop it where the fish are; OS Pod, an open source pod that allows users to quickly and easily attach their own device, providing connection with the battery and receiver; a 360 degree waterproof camera; and gimbals for the 360 degree camera and a GoPro. AguaDrone is predominantly used for fishing, but it’s unofficial slogan is “the Swiss Army knife of drones.”

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Embention is an international UAS company founded in 2007 and focused on components and critical systems. Its main product is the “Veronte Autopilot”, which is also available in a triple redundant version, and is ITAR free. Embention also designs and manufactures high quality customized UAVs.

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Force1 makes high quality toy and camera drones for inexpensive prices. Many of their drones are featured in our Cheap Drones guide, and they’re known for having excellent customer service.

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Gryphon Dynamics is known for making big, high end drones for cinematography and industrial applications.

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Gryphon Sensors is one of the world’s leaders in intelligent drone detection and safe UAS integration. They launched Skylight, one of the first UTMs (Unmanned Traffic Management systems), in 2017 to help with drone traffic management and BVLOS (Beyond Visual Line of Sight) flights.

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Fat Shark is one of the leading manufacturers of goggles, cameras, and accessories for FPV racing.

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BFD Systems was launched in 2017, and the company hit the ground running. They make custom big rigs for high end applications. They are experts in the R&D and payload integration elements of custom drones.

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Atlas Dynamics makes end-to-end solutions in the drone industry, and works to simplify technology to make it more user friendly. They launched their Nest in 2019, a charging station that enables drone automation by providing a place for a drone to charge before automatically deploying on a programmed mission.

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SicDrone creates drones designed for maximum flight efficiency, and works in government, security and agriculture applications.

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TuffWing is a U.S. based company that creates drones for affordable aerial mapping. Their drones can carry a variety of sensors, and they are resellers of licenses for mapping software Pix4D.

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Airspace is a drone security solution capable of identifying, tracking, and autonomously removing rogue drones from the sky. Their hardware and software was built specifically for this type of work and helps keep airspace safe.

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SkySpecs created Guardian, a drone that avoids obstacles, in 2015. Today they use their hardware and software solutions primarily to automate and analyze wind farms. Their solutions include analytics, wind turbine blade expertise, engineering projects, collaborative software to manage and analyze data from multiple sources, digitization of data, planning and consultation on high-cost repair campaigns.

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Dedrone created a piece of drone tracking technology called the DroneTracker, which uses multiple parameters, such as noise, shape, and movement patterns, to help guard against spying, smuggling, potential terrorist attacks, and invasions of personal privacy.

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SparrowHawk by Search Systems is an anti-drone system designed to attach to a drone that deploys a net to capture rogue drones in mid-air.

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Skyfish is an autonomous drone system for precise data collection and measuring and inspecting critical infrastructure. How? By developing the world’s first on-board computing, navigation and open sensor platform for commercial drones. Powerful inflight processing intelligence solves engineering-grade field challenges to get the best results for surveys, measurements, inspections, and 3D modeling. According to their customers, Skyfish is making the most accurate 3D aerial models available today, using Bentley Systems and getting inspection results to relative accuracy of 1/32″ for cell towers. Skyfish is proudly made in the USA.

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Wingtra is a leading VTOL drone producer for mapping, survey and mining industry professionals. Their WingtraOne drone takes off and lands like a multicopter, but flies in the air as a fixed-wing aircraft. This technology eliminates the risk of damaging the aircraft while landing, lets the drone carry heavier and thus better sensors and still allows mapping of large areas. Since its market entry in early 2017, Wingtra has partnered with more than 50 of the biggest equipment dealers and has been selling mapping drones globally ever since.

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Azur Drones is a European leader in surveillance UAVs. Pioneer of in drone-in-a-box systems, the company has developed a fully autonomous drone solution for safety and security applications, even in the most sensitive and complex environments. Skeyetech system is the first autonomous drone in Europe approved by the authorities to fly beyond visual line of sight.

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Planck Aerosystems designs and builds autonomous unmanned aerial systems (UAS) for mobile applications. By using advanced ship-launched aircraft coupled with cutting edge imaging payload, proprietary software, and intuitive user interfaces, the Planck UAS locates, identifies, and tracks all contacts of interest, customized to customer needs. They’ve worked with the FAA and the City of San Diego as part of the UAS Integration Pilot Program.

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Impossible Aerospace is an American drone manufacturer dedicated to designing and building performance unmanned aircraft for sensitive government and enterprise customers. Their drone, the US-1, is engineered with features to serve law enforcement, firefighting, disaster response, critical infrastructure, border security and other long duration, heavy lift applications.

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Parazero is the first company to have an ASTM F3322-18 compliant drone parachute system for the DJI Mavic 2 and Phantom 4 series. Their parachute system has allowed public safety departments, construction companies, and sUAS professionals across many different verticals to expand operations safely in compliance with the FAA regs. The use of a drone parachute can increase your likelihood of being approved for operations over people. In 2019, ParaZero achieved 40 approved waivers for flights over people.

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Percepto offers a market-leading autonomous drone solution for critical infrastructure and industrial applications. Percepto’s autonomous drone “in-a-box” enables the continuous surveillance and digitization of assets and security at industrial sites around the globe.

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