Safety
A New York police Skydio X10 drone crashed onto a Brooklyn precinct roof after a worn battery connector failed, and the battery that fell out caught fire.
A crash, recall, injury or investigation
What the source says
“In May 2025 an NYPD X10 crashed onto a Brooklyn precinct roof after a worn battery connector failed, and its ejected battery caught fire.”
What it means
Skydio X10 and Dock, from Skydio, is at stage 5 of 5 on our ladder: regulator-cleared or mass market. Safety events don't move a stage on their own, but they stay on the robot's record.
Human help: People working remotely can steer it or take over.
More on Skydio X10 and Dock
- Utica, New York, police said they were starting a 90-day trial of two Skydio drones, supplied through Axon, that launch from base stations to 911 calls and fire scenes.
- Skydio said police in Upper Darby, near Philadelphia, were using a Skydio X10 launched from a Skydio Dock on their headquarters roof for a drone-as-first-responder program started this summer.
- The X10, Dock for X10 and R10 indoor drone were added to the US government's Blue UAS Cleared List, which confirms a drone meets federal security and supply-chain rules so agencies can buy and fly it without extra waivers.
- Police in North Charleston, South Carolina, picked the Skydio X10 for a planned drone-as-first-responder program, if city funding is approved in December 2026.
- A tied 6-6 Minneapolis city council vote in July ended a free 75-day Skydio drone trial, after council members cited the company's ties to ICE and Israel's military.
- The US Army ordered more than 2,500 X10D drones, the military version of the X10, worth over $52 million.