Industry landscapes
The companies, capital and talent shaping drones and uavs in the United States. Find the leaders. Understand the segments. See where the activity is.
An industry ecosystem,
measured in context.
24 featured companies from the funding, hiring, revenue and team-size leaderboards.
Locked revenue figures are available in Radar; the eight company financial previews stay the same throughout this page. A dash means the figure is outside these featured lists. Revenue years vary by company; the figures are not a like-for-like revenue comparison. Compare annual accounts ↗
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83 of 831 tracked companies have open roles.
289 of 831 tracked companies have a recorded round.
Share of disclosed capital received by the three largest recorded recipients.
Midpoint of 615 rounds with a disclosed amount.
Scale is concentrated. Opportunity is broader. The three largest funding recipients hold 70.7% of disclosed capital, while 65.2% of tracked companies have no recorded funding round.
Explore the segments →Recorded company formation and disclosed funding across the complete annual series shown.
Sum of recorded funding rounds · USD
| Year | Funding (USD) | Founded | Raising |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | $368.5M | 79 | 53 |
| 2017 | $413.9M | 59 | 58 |
| 2018 | $442.24M | 46 | 48 |
| 2019 | $619.45M | 45 | 49 |
| 2020 | $990.42M | 43 | 50 |
| 2021 | $1.65B | 41 | 53 |
| 2022 | $2.72B | 25 | 53 |
| 2023 | $1.12B | 22 | 42 |
| 2024 | $2.14B | 16 | 56 |
| 2025 | $4.35B | 3 | 43 |
Share of all disclosed company funding.
735 recorded rounds since 2016
Recorded participation in drones and uavs company rounds since 2016.
Backed by Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz.
Backed by .
Backed by Lockheed Martin.
Backed by Mucker and AI Fund and others.
Backed by .
Backed by Chang Robotics Fund.
Backed by Tokai Carbon.
Backed by Advent International and JPMorgan Chase and others.
Backed by Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz.
Backed by Founders Fund.
Backed by Advent International and JPMorgan Chase and others.
Backed by Founders Fund and Sands Capital and others.
Backed by Peter Thiel and Valor Equity Partners and others.
Backed by Valor Equity Partners and Tiger Global Management and others.
Backed by L3Harris and Hanwha and others.
Backed by Elad Gil and Andreessen Horowitz and others.
Backed by Sequoia Capital and Google Ventures and others.
Backed by U.S. Innovative Technology Fund and riot.ventures and others.
Annual accounts for reporting companies linked to this landscape, on like-for-like currency and reporting bases.
Display conversions use the dated reference rates above. Where a verified rate is unavailable, figures retain their source currency. Each reporting cohort keeps its currency and accounting basis separate.
FY2025 · company accounts; aggregate reporting threshold not met · 3 reporting entities from 6 eligible matches.
Sum of reporting-entity revenue; not the United States market sales.
Combined result for the same cohort.
Combined net income ÷ combined revenue.
The middle covered reporting entity.
None of 3 covered entities.
Share of covered revenue from the five largest entities.
Reported cohort totals by year; coverage is stated for every period.
Bar height shows revenue. Changes in coverage can affect totals.
FY2025 · 3 reporting entities
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| Company / reporting entity | Revenue | Net profit / loss | Net margin | Revenue growth | Total assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Workhorse Group ↗1425287 | $21.2m | $-64.1m | -302.1% | — | — |
| AgEagle ↗8504 | $12.8m | $-5.3m | -41.2% | — | — |
| Nauticus Robotics ↗1849820 | $5.3m | $-40.8m | -774.0% | — | — |
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| Industry | Covered / eligible | Revenue total | Median revenue | Net profit / loss | Aggregate margin | Profitable share | Overlap |
|---|
Available-account cohorts are not estimates of whole industries. Overlapping entities can occur in more than one cohort; do not add cohort totals.
Filed annual accounts for exact designated national identifiers. Every aggregate and peer pair uses one fiscal year, source currency and reporting basis; periods, coverage and overlap are explicit; 2026 partials are excluded.
The same up to eight reporting entities remain open across years, filters and sorts. Other company figures are available in Radar.
Source currencies and accounting bases stay separate. Missing accounts are excluded rather than treated as zero. Exact reporting periods appear on company previews. Annual totals can change with coverage and do not measure growth of a fixed company cohort.
How the the United States companies on this page show up online: the sites people visit, the apps they install, and how often those apps ship.
46 of these companies (5.5%) publish at least one Android app — 70 apps in all, carrying 4.9M installs between them.
| App | Installs | Rating | Store category |
|---|---|---|---|
| DroneDeploy - Mapping for DJIDroneDeploy | 836.3K | 3.4 | Tools |
| B4UFLY by FAAAloft | 803.2K | 1.6 | Education |
| OpenSky - App for Drone FlyersWing | 596.3K | 4.6 | Tools |
| EagleViewEagleView | 358.9K | 3.1 | Business |
| DronelinkDronelink | 344.9K | 4 | Tools |
| HolyStone-FPVHoly Stone | 305.1K | 3 | Entertainment |
| Drone Buddy: Wind & WeatherDrone Buddy | 255.6K | 4.5 | Tools |
| Wing - Drone deliveryWing | 217.7K | 4.7 | Shopping |
| AutoPylot for DronesAutoPylot | 203.7K | 4.8 | Productivity |
| Aloft Air ControlAloft | 154.2K | 3.2 | Productivity |
Installs are lifetime totals to date at the June 2026 store reading — a measure of reach, not of people using an app today.
The busiest app inside each of this page’s own segments, with the quarterly release trend behind it (2023Q4–2026Q2).
| Segment | Apps | Installs | Leading app | Release trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drones | 70 | 4.9M | DroneDeploy - Mapping for DJI 836.3K | |
| Geographic Information Systems | 8 | 1.4M | EagleView 358.9K | |
| Artificial Intelligence | 9 | 1.3M | Skydio 30.4K | |
| Logistics Tech | 8 | 874.5K | OpenSky - App for Drone Flyers 596.3K | |
| Computer Vision | 6 | 423.7K | Eagleview CONNECTMobile 28.9K | |
| Construction Tech | 3 | 388.3K | Scanifly Mobile 473 | |
| Military Tech | 5 | 51.9K | DedroneCity 16.1K | |
| Security & Surveillance Technology | 5 | 26K | DroneSense 6.9K |
A company can carry several segment tags, so these rows overlap and should not be added together. Trend lines are zero-based and share one quarter grid, so a flat line is a quiet segment, not a missing one.
New apps published, beside apps whose most recent update landed in that quarter — the second bar is how much of the shelf is still being maintained.
Darker bars are new releases, lighter bars apps updated. 66 of 70 apps carry a release date. The series ends at 2026Q1, the last quarter that closed before the June 2026 reading.
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Companies can sit in several segments. Counts and funding overlap.
The largest measured segment in this report snapshot.
79 companies hiring · $21.76B disclosed funding
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Recorded corporate activity linked to companies in this landscape.
Firestorm has now raised a total of $129.5M in total equity funding and is backed by Booz Allen Ventures, Geodesic Capital, IQT, Litquidity Ventures, Lockheed Martin, Motley Fool Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Ondas Networks, and Washington Harbour Partners.
Skydio has raised $110 million in Series F financing, led by existing investors, bringing the company’s valuation to $4.4 billion.
Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) has awarded close to SGD 3.7 million (USD 2.9 million) in R&D co-funding to six companies, including Alicia Bots, C-Leanship, Neptune Robotics, Oceanis Robotics, RINA, and Seahi Robotics.
Pleasant Grove-based Fortem Technologies a privately held, venture backed company that delivers ultra small C-SWAP radar to enable the autonomous revolution.
Red Cat Holdings acquired Quaze Technologies for $25 million and also purchased Apium Swarm Robotics to expand its capabilities in drone infrastructure and autonomous defense systems.
Performance Drone Works raised $110 million in venture funding from Booz Allen Hamilton, Hanwha Asset Management, Hood River Capital, and Ondas Networks.
Shield AI, who has just announced a $2 billion fund-raising with a value of $12.7 billion. This round table, led by Advent International with the support of JPMorgan, also points to an enlargement of the
Lucid Bots - $20.0M
Swarmer, whose software has been used by the Ukrainian army since 2024, shot 520% on his first day of listing in the Nasdaq on Tuesday.
AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAV) has completed the acquisition of Empirical Systems Aerospace, Inc. (ESAero) ...
Top 10 categories among 610 recorded events in the 24-month window.
4 companies with recorded IPO activity
30 tracked people moves
Appointment Chief Executive Officer
Appointment Chairman-Elect
Appointment Chief Executive Officer
Resignation Previously Chief Executive Officer
Promotion Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Appointment executive vice president and chief financial officer
Retirement Previously executive vice president and chief financial officer
Appointment Chief Executive Officer
Products, platforms and features in the recorded window
Autonomous inventory management system
Aircraft
Warfighter readiness suite
Intelligence fusion and analysis environment
Industrial drone – spray painting
63 recorded customer wins
Customer: Gateway FleetsElectric Vehicles
Customer: purolatorTransportation & Logistics
Customer: Defense
Customer: rayonixDefense
Customer: Major government entityDefense
Customer: U.S. Space ForceDefense
1 companies with reported reductions
Scale not stated rolescost reduction
6 recorded events
regained compliance with listing standardsNYSE American
approved to operate across 99% of the U.S.Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
approved for nationwide BVLOS operations
protest deniedU.S. Government Accountability Office
2 tracked suits
Contract protest over multibillion-dollar delivery vehicle contractCivil · Ongoing
IDIQ contract protestRegulatory · Ongoing
Reported company results in the recorded window.
Median across 62 reported growth observations; companies may contribute multiple periods.
Company-linked deal reports; status is preserved as recorded.
| Acquirer → target | Status | Date | Value / context |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Cat Holdings→Apium Swarm Robotics ↗ | 2026-04-03 | Not stated in snapshot | |
| Shield AI→Aechelon Technology | Announced | 2026-03-27 | Not stated in snapshot |
| JFB Construction Holdings (NASDAQ:JFB)→XTEND ↗ | Announced | 2026-03-26 | $1.5B |
| AeroVironment→esaero | Announced | 2026-03-19 | $200.0M |
| AeroVironment→bluehalo | Completed | 2026-03-18 | $4.1B |
| AeroVironment→empirical systems aerospace | Announced | 2026-03-16 | $200.0M |
A discussion or rumour is not a completed transaction. An unstated value is not zero.
3,082 postings in the preceding 12 months. The full 4,340-posting snapshot covers 90 employers.
17 tracked postings mention remote work.
2,048 postings specify a level.
Top skills across 4,340 tracked postings in the available jobs snapshot.
Median across 1,053 postings with pay data, expressed in USD.
Advertised posting medians do not describe all employees or roles.
| Company | Open roles |
|---|---|
| Firestorm ↗ | 12 |
| Shield AI ↗ | 11 |
| Anduril ↗ | 11 |
| AeroVironment ↗ | 11 |
| Skydio ↗ | 9 |
| General Dynamics Mission Systems ↗ | 9 |
| Epirus ↗ | 8 |
| Skyways ↗ | 8 |
| Company | Employees |
|---|---|
| General Dynamics Mission Systems ↗ | 9,600 |
| Anduril ↗ | 2,193 |
| AeroVironment ↗ | 1,259 |
| DroneUp ↗ | 376 |
| Shield AI ↗ | 364 |
| Skydio ↗ | 332 |
| Workhorse Group ↗ | 298 |
| SkySpecs ↗ | 289 |
608 founders and chief executives across 438 companies.
Co-Founder Pursuit, Sol, ex-Palantir Technologies. Georgetown University BS 2005
Shield Ai, ex-Qualcomm, ex-Wipower, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ex-Willow Garage · The Johns Hopkins University BS 2003, Stanford University MS 2005, PhD 2007
Ex-Google, Convexus Advisors. University of California, Berkeley BS 2005, MIT MS 2009, PhD 2012
CX2, pterodynamics, Pericles Consulting, Senra Systems, Safire Technology Group, Co-Founder Spartan Radar, ex-Co-Founder California Common Sense…
Firestorm, ex-Stratasys, ex-Origin, California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
Ex-Co-Founder The Drone Racing League, DroneKraft, Heather, Havas, McCann, Saatchi & Saatchi.
Dronedeploy, ex-Adverteyes, ex-University Of Edinburgh, The University of Edinburgh, 2010
Ex-Co-Founder Qitera, Cobion & JouleX, Cisco. University of Kassel 1997
Skywalk, ex-Advanced Geolocation Solutions, Globally Unified Air Quality, OlaFPV, Pirodrone. Rochester Institute of Technology BS 2022
Lemnos, ex-3D Robotics, Co-Founder Sifteo. Stanford University BS 2000 & MS 2002, MIT PhD 2009
Ex-South32, Downer, Wilmar International. James Cook University BE 2015
102 profiles with education records.
27 profiles with prior-work records.
Profiles cover recorded founders and leaders; contact details remain in Radar.
173,389 articles in the measured 12-month window.
Drones and UAVs coverage across United States · articles per complete quarter
| Quarter | Articles |
|---|---|
| 2021Q2 | 25,712 |
| 2021Q3 | 27,989 |
| 2021Q4 | 25,133 |
| 2022Q1 | 27,400 |
| 2022Q2 | 27,462 |
| 2022Q3 | 31,339 |
| 2022Q4 | 31,477 |
| 2023Q1 | 35,607 |
| 2023Q2 | 33,273 |
| 2023Q3 | 36,417 |
| 2023Q4 | 31,282 |
| 2024Q1 | 42,598 |
| 2024Q2 | 40,075 |
| 2024Q3 | 39,262 |
| 2024Q4 | 46,198 |
| 2025Q1 | 48,565 |
| 2025Q2 | 41,962 |
| 2025Q3 | 42,073 |
| 2025Q4 | 32,831 |
| 2026Q1 | 48,613 |
Article volume measures coverage, not market sales.
811 recorded company events across 87 companies; percentages use that event total.
Drones and UAVs coverage across United States · ranked by full-period article count.
Recent and prior counts use the source comparison windows.
Drones and UAVs coverage across United States
| Keyword | Recent | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| artemis program | 3,716 | 241 | 1442% |
| aerial bombardments | 3,625 | 1,774 | 104% |
| drone warfare | 2,534 | 1,372 | 85% |
| national security strategy | 1,201 | 789 | 52% |
| flight safety measures | 1,084 | 754 | 44% |
| flight disruption payments | 677 | 254 | 167% |
| national security space policy | 652 | 457 | 43% |
| military cyber strategy | 651 | 460 | 42% |
| aircraft emergency procedures | 639 | 411 | 55% |
| critical infrastructure attacks | 629 | 276 | 128% |
| drone defense | 587 | 982 | -40% |
| fighter jets | 590 | 917 | -36% |
| faa drone rules | 401 | 899 | -55% |
| drone airspace rules | 391 | 883 | -56% |
| anti-drone system | 479 | 748 | -36% |
Drones and UAVs coverage across United States
flight safety measures, satellite telecommunication, safety compliance aviation
57.4% critical · 35.4% positiveweapons system funding, defense appropriations, military spending bills
51.7% critical · 49.0% positiveinternational flights, delivery drone, parcel delivery drone
38.6% critical · 53.9% positiveDrones and UAVs coverage across United States. Topic labels describe recorded classifications and can include broad context.
6,386 papers in the recorded india scope.
Tone counts: 5,769 positive · 238 neutral · 379 negative.
Landmark: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): A Survey on Civil Applications and Key Research Challenges
Landmark: Energy use and life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of drones for commercial package delivery
Landmark: A tutorial on UAVs for wireless networks:applications, challenges, and open problems
Common problems researchers identify · 0121.3% of this theme group
Drone (165) · Medical emergency (7) · Health care (11) · Aeronautics (20)
Humanitarian Drones: A Review and Research Agenda
The Drone Scheduling Problem: A Systematic State-of-the-Art Review
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 246.7 |
| 2023 | 264.6 |
| 2024 | 384.0 |
| 2025 | 285.1 |
Common problems researchers identify · 0217.6% of this theme group
Drone (105) · Aeronautics (35) · Aviation (22) · National Airspace System (10)
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): A Survey on Civil Applications and Key Research Challenges
Reliability Theory and Practice for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 383.8 |
| 2023 | 403.8 |
| 2024 | 523.5 |
| 2025 | 466.3 |
Common problems researchers identify · 0316.4% of this theme group
Pandemic (11) · Robot (15) · Robotics (13) · Resilience (9)
Autonomous Military Robotics: Risk, Ethics, and Design
Distributed Machine Learning for UAV Swarms: Computing, Sensing, and Semantics
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 1441.4 |
| 2023 | 1464.4 |
| 2024 | 1565.4 |
| 2025 | 1642.8 |
Common problems researchers identify · 0413.6% of this theme group
Drone (98) · Politics (16) · Terrorism (14) · Power (7)
Ordinary Emergency: Drones, Police, and Geographies of Legal Terror
Cheap fights, credible threats: The future of armed drones and coercion
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 33.1 |
| 2023 | 31.4 |
| 2024 | 21.8 |
| 2025 | 20.1 |
Common problems researchers identify · 0513.2% of this theme group
Computer security (63) · Drone (103) · Internet privacy (19) · Government (13)
Security, Privacy, and Safety Aspects of Civilian Drones
Security and Privacy for the Internet of Drones: Challenges and Solutions
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 775.1 |
| 2023 | 774.1 |
| 2024 | 687.8 |
| 2025 | 351.1 |
Common problems researchers identify · 0613.2% of this theme group
Drone (96) · Remote sensing (15) · Environmental planning (6) · Wildlife (5)
On the Use of Unmanned Aerial Systems for Environmental Monitoring
Drones in urban stormwater management: a review and future perspectives
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 1792.5 |
| 2023 | 1871.6 |
| 2024 | 2139.4 |
| 2025 | 1421.4 |
Common problems researchers identify · 074.7% of this theme group
Agriculture (26) · Precision agriculture (13) · Drone (25) · Sustainability (4)
Drones: The Newest Technology for Precision Agriculture
Leveraging precision agriculture techniques using UAVs and emerging disruptive technologies
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 205.5 |
| 2023 | 241.9 |
| 2024 | 266.5 |
| 2025 | 292.4 |
Cautions · 0122.8% of this theme group
Drone (65) · Perception (6) · Computer security (10) · Aeronautics (9)
Drones for supply chain management and logistics: a review and research agenda
Drones, Surveillance, and Violence: Theory and Evidence from a US Drone Program
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 992.9 |
| 2023 | 1013.2 |
| 2024 | 1016.8 |
| 2025 | 655.7 |
Cautions · 0222.5% of this theme group
Drone (60) · Aerospace engineering (7) · Aeronautics (9) · Trajectory (4)
Drone classification and identification system by phenome analysis using data mining techniques
When Faced With Increasing Complexity: The Effectiveness of Artificial Intelligence Assistance for Drone Design
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 1432.6 |
| 2023 | 1473.3 |
| 2024 | 1705.2 |
| 2025 | 1146.4 |
Cautions · 0321.1% of this theme group
Drone (52) · Remote sensing (10) · Photogrammetry (7) · Lidar (5)
Multi-Scale Evaluation of Drone-Based Multispectral Surface Reflectance and Vegetation Indices in Operational Conditions
Accuracy of Drone-Based Surveys: Structured Evaluation of a UAS-Based Land Survey
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 1830.0 |
| 2023 | 1905.7 |
| 2024 | 2177.2 |
| 2025 | 1490.2 |
Cautions · 0414.5% of this theme group
Wildlife (12) · Drone (38) · Aerial survey (9) · Population (7)
Unmanned aircraft systems in wildlife research: current and future applications of a transformative technology
A comparison of unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) and manned helicopters for monitoring macropod populations
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 125.8 |
| 2023 | 122.7 |
| 2024 | 80.2 |
| 2025 | 84.9 |
Cautions · 0512.5% of this theme group
Robot (7) · Internet of Things (5) · Adversarial system (4) · Software deployment (3)
Revealing Safety Risks of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Construction
Using unmanned aerial vehicles and robotics in hazardous locations safely
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 2063.6 |
| 2023 | 2088.1 |
| 2024 | 2235.3 |
| 2025 | 2261.7 |
Cautions · 066.6% of this theme group
Honey bee (10) · Zoology (5) · Sperm (4) · Brood (3)
Factors affecting the reproductive health of honey bee (Apis mellifera) drones—a review
Survival of Honey Bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Spermatozoa Incubated at Room Temperature from Drones Exposed to Miticides
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 5.0 |
| 2023 | 4.8 |
| 2024 | 6.9 |
| 2025 | 4.9 |
Opportunities · 0120.1% of this theme group
Drone (749) · Computer security (153) · Human–computer interaction (42) · Authentication (33)
Drone Assisted Vehicular Networks: Architecture, Challenges and Opportunities
An Internet of Drones
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 1156.9 |
| 2023 | 1171.5 |
| 2024 | 1081.5 |
| 2025 | 525.1 |
16.4% of this theme group
Drone (382) · Aviation (34) · Onboard systems (48) · Unmanned ground vehicle (16)
A survey of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for traffic monitoring
Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM): Enabling Low-Altitude Airspace and UAS Operations
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 274.7 |
| 2023 | 285.1 |
| 2024 | 287.7 |
| 2025 | 312.1 |
Opportunities · 0315.7% of this theme group
Drone (563) · Object detection (65) · Convolutional neural network (53) · Detector (19)
Drone Detection Using Depth Maps
Drone-Based Human Action Recognition for Surveillance: A Multi-Feature Approach
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 314.0 |
| 2023 | 312.5 |
| 2024 | 184.9 |
| 2025 | 203.4 |
Opportunities · 0415.2% of this theme group
Drone (525) · Remote sensing (102) · Aerial survey (51) · Wildlife (34)
Integrating Drone Imagery into High Resolution Satellite Remote Sensing Assessments of Estuarine Environments
Drones as a tool to monitor human impacts and vegetation changes in parks and protected areas
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 1782.1 |
| 2023 | 1863.2 |
| 2024 | 2131.2 |
| 2025 | 1422.2 |
Opportunities · 0514.6% of this theme group
Drone (535) · Truck (37) · Routing (32) · Base station (39)
Vehicle Routing Problems for Drone Delivery
Drone delivery schedule optimization considering the reliability of drones
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 106.6 |
| 2023 | 96.1 |
| 2024 | 34.7 |
| 2025 | 46.6 |
Opportunities · 0613.0% of this theme group
Robot (63) · Robotics (39) · Scalability (40) · Cloud computing (23)
A Multi-Modal Modular Robotic System: Self-Assembly and Navigation in Complex Terrains
Integrating Image Enhancement, Classification, and Segmentation for Supporting Automated Underwater Infrastructure Inspection and Maintenanc
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 1514.1 |
| 2023 | 1554.4 |
| 2024 | 1624.8 |
| 2025 | 1867.6 |
Opportunities · 075.1% of this theme group
Reinforcement learning (126) · Drone (147) · Motion planning (16) · Markov decision process (9)
Autonomous Drone Racing with Deep Reinforcement Learning
Efficient Drone Mobility Support Using Reinforcement Learning
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 319.2 |
| 2023 | 335.1 |
| 2024 | 272.7 |
| 2025 | 443.3 |
Orientation shares compared with 25,000 papers in the reference sample.
| Research orientation | This field | Reference sample |
|---|---|---|
| Promising | 34.0% | 37.5% |
| Breakthrough | 29.9% | 25.9% |
| Descriptive | 15.1% | 17.6% |
| Problem-identifying | 11.4% | 9.6% |
| Cautionary | 4.8% | 4.5% |
| Comparative | 3.1% | 4.0% |
| Critical | 1.7% | 1.0% |
Counts and shares refer to the stated research pool. A low count describes how much of that research is recorded here, not the absence of a real-world concern.
| Concern / example paper | Papers | Share | Raised as a problem | Worldwide share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Privacy & surveillanceFrom high-touch to high-tech: COVID-19 drives robotics adoption | 216 | 3.7% | 65 (30.1%) | 3.24% |
| Safety & misuseRisk analysis of disinformation weaponized against critical networks | 10 | 0.17% | 4 (40.0%) | 0.2% |
| Bias & fairnessReplication Data for: Target Discrimination - How Racial Biases Affect Public Support for U.S. Drone Strikes | 6 | 0.1% | 1 (16.7%) | 0.08% |
| Energy & datacenter footprintE2EdgeAI: Energy-Efficient Edge Computing for Deployment of Vision-Based DNNs on Autonomous Tiny Drones | 5 | 0.09% | 0 (0.0%) | 0.07% |
| Hardware, e-waste & supply chainAutomated Drone‐Delivery Solar‐Driven Onsite Wastewater Smart Monitoring and Treatment System | 2 | 0.03% | 0 (0.0%) | 0.01% |
| Concentration of compute powerDemocratizing Drone Autonomy via Edge Computing | 1 | 0.02% | 0 (0.0%) | 0.03% |
| Water use | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.0% |
| Carbon & emissions of compute | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.01% |
| Labour & data work | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.01% |
Institution and researcher rankings use citations to their covered work. Research scope: United States. This may be broader than the company geography.
Published patent filings in the recorded source window.
Company counts, hiring and disclosed funding across the recorded hubs.
29.3% across the displayed hubs
7 companies hiring · $2.5B disclosed funding
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15.2% across the displayed hubs
4 companies hiring · $221.4M disclosed funding
Explore companies in Austin ↗14.0% across the displayed hubs
3 companies hiring · $4.1B disclosed funding
Explore companies in San Diego ↗11.0% across the displayed hubs
2 companies hiring · $725.2M disclosed funding
Explore companies in Los Angeles ↗
8.5% across the displayed hubs
2 companies hiring · $73.4M disclosed funding
Explore companies in Boston ↗8.5% across the displayed hubs
2 companies hiring · $201.2M disclosed funding
Explore companies in Palo Alto ↗7.9% across the displayed hubs
2 companies hiring · $55.0M disclosed funding
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0 companies hiring · $23.1M disclosed funding
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It measures the tracked company ecosystem, recorded funding, hiring and other available evidence. It is not a market-size estimate.
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Company ecosystem snapshot: 1 September 2026. Funding is recorded in USD; filed accounts retain their stated currency and reporting basis. Each section identifies its own coverage. The news and research behind these sections is explorable in Prism.
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