autonomous-aircraft

Icarus is an aerospace and defense company building autonomous, solar-powered stratospheric aircraft for persistent surveillance and connectivity. Its APOLLO platform operates continuously above 60,000 feet, delivering rapid aerial intelligence, wide-area coverage across 1,000+ square miles, and always-on, low-latency (5-10ms) direct-to-device…

Elroy Air develops autonomous vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) cargo aircraft for defense, commercial, and rapid-response logistics. Its flagship Chaparral is a hybrid-electric aircraft designed to carry up to 300 pounds of cargo across roughly 300 miles with no crew onboard, taking off and landing vertically and cruising autonomously between…

Pyka is an Alameda, California company that designs and manufactures large, dual-use heavy-lift autonomous electric aircraft for commercial and defense operations. Its flagship products are the Pelican 2 autonomous crop-protection aircraft for aerial application and the DropShip long-range heavy-lift cargo UAS.

Zipline is a South San Francisco–headquartered autonomous logistics company operating the world's largest commercial drone delivery network, with more than two million customer deliveries flown across the United States, Rwanda, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Côte d'Ivoire, and Japan.