Drone / aerial robot (UAV)CommercialDual use
Skydio X10
Drone with vision-based autonomous navigation, able to fly at night with visible or infrared illumination (NightSense). It can operate from a dock for remote missions; the X10D variant is dual-use.
- Year
- 2023
- Origin
- United States
- Autonomy
- L4 · High autonomy
- Dataset review
- 2026-11 · Methodology & evidence levels
Spec sheet
Manufacturer maxima under declared conditions; not simultaneous. The test condition is shown under each value.
- Weight
- 2.11 kg
- Connect SL configuration with battery
- Payload
- 0.34 kg
- Editorial estimate
- Operating time
- 40 min
- maximum flight; ~35 min hover with lighting kit
- Top speed
- 20 m/s
- still air at sea level; 16 m/s with obstacle avoidance active
- IP rating
- IP55
- Onboard compute
- NVIDIA Jetson Orin
Taxonomy profile
Where the platform sits on the four axes of the reference framework.
Autonomy
High autonomy- L0
- L1
- L2
- L3
- L4
- L5
Operates continuously without human intervention inside a bounded operational design domain (ODD).
Coordination
Coordinated- Standalone
- Coordinated
- Collaborative swarm
Shares state and telemetry through a base station or central server.
Control
primary: BVLOS fleet- FPV
- Teleop
- Supervised
- BVLOS
- RL/VLA
supported: Teleoperation · Supervised mission · BVLOS fleet
Perception
5 sensing modalities- Stereo cameras / VIO
- RGB cameras
- Thermal / infrared
- GNSS / RTK
- IMU
Operating environments
- Industrial plant
- Emergency / disaster
- Urban / pedestrian
- Confined spaces
Sectors
- Infrastructure inspection
- Public safety & emergency
- Security & surveillance
Ideal business case
Remote dock-based inspection (drone-in-a-box)