<story><title>Skydio: $1k Skydio 2 drone launch takes aim at DJI</title><url>https://www.skydio.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>HALtheWise</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m an autonomy engineer at Skydio, and while there are limits to what I can reveal publicly, I&amp;#x27;m happy to answer any questions people have.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>m463</author><text>Can you just go fly your drone, or do you have to register your drone and so forth?&lt;p&gt;I returned the DJI because you had to make an account and register your drone before you could fly with the controller.  Additionally after I returned it, a friend showed me the appalling snooping they do on their customers and flights.</text></comment>
<story><title>Skydio: $1k Skydio 2 drone launch takes aim at DJI</title><url>https://www.skydio.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>HALtheWise</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m an autonomy engineer at Skydio, and while there are limits to what I can reveal publicly, I&amp;#x27;m happy to answer any questions people have.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bbayer</author><text>Do you have any plans to be more developer friendly? Do you plan to give some sort of API to make custom development? It can bring lots of opportunities to devs if it provides some sort of hackability.</text></comment>