Over the past few years, drone industry has evolved a lot, it has displaced many technologies with its quick results and cost-effectiveness. This evolutionary change has shot up the drone market with several players joining in the industry with the most innovative solutions and applications. Let’s have a look at some of the top drone companies around the world who are catering to several industries with their groundbreaking product and solutions. Companies in the list are from both software as well as hardware side.
1DJI
Indeed, they are the leader in the drone industry. Dà-Jiāng Innovations popular as DJI was founded in the year 2006 by Frank Wang. Since its inception, DJI has emerged as one of the top consumer drone manufacturers. The company manufactures a range of products including unmanned aerial vehicles, flying platforms, flight controllers for multi-rotors, helicopters accessories, aerial and handheld gimbals and ground stations. The best part of DJI is that they manufacture drone for both amateurs as well as professional flyers.
2Kespry
With headquarter in San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast, Kespry was founded in 2013. Kespry’s aerial intelligence platform is transforming how organizations capture, analyze and share insights about their business, providing the information they need to accelerate their operations. The company manufactures drones specifically for capturing, viewing, and analyzing aerial imagery and survey data. Kespry serves customers across North America, Europe and Australia, including John Deere, Hancock Claims Consultants, Catastrophe Response Unit (CRU), Fluor, Lehigh Hanson/Heidelberg, and Colas USA.
3Parrot
Parrot is known by its flagship product Bebop and Bebop 2.0 with 25-minute battery life and powerful motors for flight in greater altitudes. Headquartered in Paris, Parrot was founded in the year 1994. The company builds solutions on common technological expertise to innovate and develop in three primary markets. They are Automotive, Civil drone and Connected objects.
4Yuneec
Yuneec started as a manufacturer of radio-controlled model aircraft. The company built the first successful electric-powered paraglider that was manufactured in series production, the EPac, before creating the first commercially successful, ready-to-fly fixed wing RC airplane. Now the company is most popular for 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.
5Autel Robotics
They believe in transforming complex technology into simple solutions, and creating easy-to-use aerial devices for photography/filming and imaging and thus it has been delivering solutions for new aerial exploration through their market-leading quadcopter and camera drone technology. The company is still rising and has some of the most sophisticated camera systems.
6Pix4D
Headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, Pix4D offers professional-grade drone mapping and photogrammetry software. They offer real-life solutions to agricultural, real estate, and construction industry issues that can be solved via aerial imaging. As such, the system can be used to perform aerial inspections, build site planning, and digital mapping.
7Insitu
Insitu is a pioneer in the design, development, production and operation of high-performance, cost-effective unmanned aircraft systems. They run various drone services and also provide hardware in the form of commercial-focused drones. They provide technology that can be applied to intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance efforts in the defense sector, as well as the government and commercial industries, such as environmental monitoring, precision agriculture, search-and-rescue, disaster relief, and mining operations.
8Lockheed Martin Corporation
Lockheed Martin is a leading technology company that is currently developing optionally unmanned and manned drones. While the idea behind this technology is rather abstract, it basically suggests that we would be able to manage entire teams of drones. The company refers to their expansive drone theory as “human-machine collaboration.
93D Robotics
3D Robotics or 3DR is an American company headquartered in Berkeley, California that makes enterprise drone software for construction, engineering and mining firms, along with government agencies. This is the number one platform for drone data in the fields of construction and engineering. It provides useful tools, such as site scans, app compatibility, and job site management. In fact, it makes things like field surveys seem like a thing of the past.
10Skycatch Inc.
Skycatch is the leading industrial data collection and analytics company, focused on indexing and extracting critical information from the physical world. With the combination of hardware, software, and artificial intelligence they deliver high precision data at the unprecedented speed and ease of use. Built for the enterprise, their turnkey solutions are deployed across global project sites with the world’s largest construction, mining, and energy companies
