Gold · #1 Drone
Skydio X10
Skydio · 2023
no confirmed customer
61.42
RoboIndex
59.64 score + 1.78 momentum
Drone · scores as of 6 Sept 2026
Top Drone Robots
41 robots ranked by RoboIndex — the RoboScore for evidence, plus up to 15 points of Momentum for a maker with live news. Evidence still decides; news only reorders what was already close.
Silver · #2 Drone
DJI Matrice 4 Series (Matrice 4T & Matrice 4E)
DJI · 2025
no confirmed customer
60.04
RoboIndex
57.55 score + 2.49 momentum
Bronze · #3 Drone
ANAFI Thermal
Parrot · 2020
no confirmed customer
57.72
RoboIndex
56.20 score + 1.52 momentum
- Rank
- Where you stand. RoboIndex is RoboScore + Momentum — the 0–100 evidence figure plus up to 15 points for a maker in the news. Both parts are printed on every row, so you can check the sum.
- Momentum
- What's happening now. Up to 15 points, from news events that decay over 90 days. It can lift a rank, never sink one — a quiet maker keeps its RoboScore in full. Recomputed daily, so positions can move between weekly score freezes.
- Movers
- A lens, not a page. The same list re-sorted by momentum change — see this week's.
The rest of the standing
4–25 of 41#
Robot · maker
RoboIndex
Score Δ
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9
H520E-RTK
CNYuneec International · 2020
variant of H520E
no confirmed customer · tied on score with 1 other
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19
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20
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41 ranked0 changed their own score this week8 held out as pre-2020
The Score Δ column only moves when a robot's own score moved. It is not a report on the week: rank position drifts whenever a neighbour moves, and publishing that as an arrow would be inventing movement. A robot that did not change reports how long it has sat where it sits, in days and then in weeks — so a score that settled last week is told apart from one nothing has touched in months. A trailing + means that streak runs back to the 30 July rescoring and is a floor, because no score can be compared across a change of formula.
Robots first sold before 2020 are held out of the standing. Robots with no recorded launch year stay in — an unknown year is not evidence of age, and treating missing data as old would quietly delete most of the catalogue.
Momentum belongs to the maker, not the robot. Every robot a maker sells moves together. Where we have no news signal at all the row says so in words rather than showing a zero — a zero would claim the company is quiet, when all we actually know is that we have not heard anything.
Makers are ranked on a separate board. A robot is never ranked against a company, so Top Drone Companies is its own standing, built from each maker's robots in this category alone.
How this ranking is built — the factors behind the score, the year gate, how ties are ordered, and why Momentum is capped and bonus-only rather than averaged into the score.