Top 10 Startups developing AI for Drones in USA

Oct 24, 2024 | By Siddhant Patel

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Funding: $60.2M
Exyn is developing fully autonomous aerial robot systems with multi-modal sensing to enable robust performance in commercial environments.
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Funding: $1.1B
Shield AI works with the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, and other federal, state, and local departments and agencies to deliver next generation intelligence, reconnaissance, and surveillance systems. Shield AI’s first product, Nova, is a Hivemind-powered drone that searches buildings while simultaneously streaming video and generating maps.
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Funding: $570M
Skydio is a robotics company that makes flying tools that free your hands and mind. The company's unique computer vision and motion planning algorithms coupled with the same cheap image sensors and processors in mobile phones give drones the ability to navigate intelligently with respect to their surroundings.
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Funding: $32.1M
Make your products and services more intelligent with The Neurala Brain, a deep learning neural network software that mimics how the human brain works. Neurala is looking to put AI in the hands of toy makers, drone enthusiasts and IoT engineers alike.
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Funding: $28M
Iris Automation is an artificial intelligence and safety avionics company building collision-avoidance systems for autonomous drones.
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Funding: $15.7M
Lucid builds robotic tools that fit right into your business and make hard jobs look easy.
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Funding: $4.5M
Wonder Robotics provides robust AI layers for autonomous and safe flights for both commercial and military delivery drones.
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Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision & Data Science for maritime, ports, harbors, boating & marinas, underwater drone inspections
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Funding: $120K
Cleo Robotics is developing a revolutionary new drone technology designed specifically for indoor applications. The company claims to incorporate a combination of stereo vision-based SLAM and neural networks for indoor navigation and obstacle avoidance.
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Funding: $40K
Neya Systems is a leading developer of advanced unmanned systems technologies.
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Funding: $1K
Developer of AI-enabled and electric unmanned aerial systems. The company offers stealth to radar, autonomous operations, encrypted communications, multi-constellation navigation, anti-jamming and anti-spoofing systems, and endurance systems. It also provides smart Persistent intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (SP-ISR) as a service. It can be used in the defense, security, and aerospace sectors.
Editor: Siddhant Patel
Siddhant Patel is a senior editor for AI-Startups. He is based out of India and has previously worked at publications including Huffington Post and The Next Web. Siddhant has a special interest in artificial intelligence and has spent a decade covering the rapidly-evolving business and technology of the industry. Siddhant graduated from the Indian Institute of Science (Bengaluru). When he’s not writing, Siddhant is also a developer and has a deep historical knowledge of the computer industry for the past 50 years. You can contact Siddhant at sidpatel(at)ai-startups(dot)org