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- Skydio is so confident in its abilities that the R1 doesn’t even ship with a controller. Everything is managed through the app.
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- Video Quality
- Flight Performance
- Portability
- Ease of Use
The Skydio's camera produces a decent image, but it certainly isn't as advanced as many of the cameras that are cropping up on new consumer drones. That led to a middle-of-the-road score in our video quality testing. Overall, we think the Skydio's footage looks good. In favorable lighting conditions, it produces pretty good detail and a bright, ple...
The Skydio's incredible autonomous flight abilities are, to a large extent, balanced out by the lack of a physical controller and a short range of just 300 feet. This earned it a fairly average score in our flight performance testing. First the good: the Skydio's 13 obstacle avoidance sensors make it the best autonomous flying consumer drone by lea...
This is one area where the Skydio isn't exactly a standout. at 2.5 pounds with a single battery, this drone certainly doesn't feel heavy when carrying it around. However, the wide footprint of the drone, and its inability to fold up at all make it a bit cumbersome to take along with you. For skiing and biking ventures, the only real option is to la...
The Skydio is incredibly easy to use. We found getting everything set up and the drone talking to the smartphone app to be very intuitive. From there you can take off just by swiping up on your phone screen. The camera then automatically recognizes people and/or cars, and you can just tap on whichever subject you'd like the drone to follow and head...
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- Max Mutter
Apr 2, 2018 · Even though the R1 "flies itself," you do have some control. Using the mobile app, you can move the drone up and down or toward and away from you (which the app confusingly calls...
- James Trew
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Mar 22, 2018 · Part of that is because the R1 is only controllable via your phone (Android or iOS), which uses WiFi to control it and thus is range limited. You’ll want to download the free app and get the drone all registered. It only takes a few moments to complete this process. If you haven’t done so yet, you’ll also need to charge the batteries.
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Feb 14, 2018 · We go hands-on with the Skydio R1, a camera-equipped drone that not only flies autonomously, but can actually track you and avoid almost any obstacle in its flight path. And from our first test...
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- Adam Savage’s Tested
Feb 1, 2018 · R1 is controlled via the Skydio app on your smartphone. Launching R1 is as simple as swiping up. As soon as it’s in the air, R1 begins avoiding obstacles on its own, even through challenging environments like a forested trail.
We review the Skydio R1 Frontier Edition, the first autonomous drone we've tested that lives up to its promises of hands-free flight! We're so impresssed by ...
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- Adam Savage’s Tested
