Drone News: Skydio's No-Weapons Pledge, Avata 2 Disarms Suspect, FBI Seizes Over 300 Drones
Welcome to your weekly UAS News Update. We have three stories for you this week, Skydio's CEO walks back their no-weapons pledge, a Sacramento Sheriff uses a DJI Avata 2 to disarm a suspect, and the FBI seizes over 300 drones at World Cup stadiums. Let's get to it.
First up this week, Skydio CEO Adam Bry recently went on The Verge's Decoder podcast and made a statement distancing the company from their published 2020 principles, which stated they would not put weapons on their drones. Bry confirmed the U.S. Army has already run experiments mounting grenade droppers on Skydio drones, and he…
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