Gold · #1 Drone
Skydio X10
Skydio · 2023
no confirmed customer
62.68
RoboIndex
59.64 score + 3.04 momentum
Drone · as of 8 Aug 2026
Top Drone Robots
34 robots ranked by RoboIndex — the Robo Score 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
JUMP 20
AeroVironment
no confirmed customer · launch year not on file
58.70
RoboIndex
55.82 score + 2.88 momentum
Bronze · #3 Drone
Guardian Drone™
Asylon · 2024
no confirmed customer
58.39
RoboIndex
56.12 score + 2.27 momentum
- Rank
- Where you stand. RoboIndex is Robo Score + 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 Robo Score in full.
- 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 34#
Robot · maker
RoboIndex
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34 ranked0 changed their own score this week7 held out as pre-2020
The week column only moves when a robot's own score moved. Rank position drifts whenever a neighbour moves, so publishing that as an arrow would be inventing movement. A robot that did not change reads hold.
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.