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Skydio and Skylark Labs partner to bring self-learning AI to autonomous drone operations. Published 09/17/26 AT 2:09 PM EDT Skylark Labs, a U.S.-based artificial intelligence (AI) company building self-learning AI for physical systems, today announced a technology partnership with Skydio, the largest U.S.-based drone manufacturer and world leader in flying robots, to deliver customizable, self-learning AI analytics to drone operations serving utilities, power, and other critical infrastructure customers. The collaboration will connect video streams from Skydio systems to Kepler, Skylark Labs' AI analytics platform, giving customers access to diverse AI capabilities that can be selected and customized for their specific missions. This partnership will be available for customers in critical infrastructure, where utilities, energy companies and industrial operators increasingly use autonomous drones for inspection, monitoring, security, and situational awareness. Skydio already serves more than 1300 critical infrastructure companies, including more than 450 utility and energy companies. The partnership is built around a simple premise: different customers need different kinds of AI, and that intelligence must be dependable when deployed in complex real-world environments. Through Kepler, customers can start with the analytics they need today, tailor those capabilities around their operations, and expand them as requirements evolve. Skylark Labs' self-learning AI is designed to adapt after deployment, help improve accuracy, learn new signals of interest, and support customer-specific capabilities over time. "Skydio has built an incredibly capable autonomous drone platform. Our role is to extend what customers can do with it," Dr. Amarjot Singh, founder and CEO of Skylark Labs, shares. "Different missions require different intelligence, and customers should be able to shape that intelligence around their operation. With Kepler, they can start with the analytics they need today, help improve accuracy as the system learns their environment, teach it new signals, and build new capabilities with us as their requirements evolve." Built around the customer. A utility inspecting substations may need very different intelligence from an energy company monitoring pipelines or an industrial operator securing a large facility. Kepler is designed to provide that flexibility so customers can apply different analytics to different missions, refine existing capabilities around their workflows, and work with Skylark Labs to develop customer-specific AI features when their requirements extend beyond an existing analytic. The platform is designed to be built with the customer, not simply delivered to them. A deployment can begin with one use case and expand over time - by adding analytics, learning new signals, supporting new missions, and extending the same intelligence layer to additional sites. Skylark Labs' self-learning capability is particularly relevant in physical environments, where site-specific conditions can affect AI performance. If an object, background, or environmental condition repeatedly generates an unnecessary alert, the system is designed to learn from that pattern and help improve accuracy. If the customer later identifies something new it wants to monitor, that signal can be added to the intelligence layer. Please visit Skylark Labs' website for more information. About Skylark Labs. Skylark Labs is a U.S.-based artificial intelligence company building self-learning AI for physical systems. Kepler is Skylark's AI analytics platform, enabling customers to deploy, customize, and expand AI analytics while allowing the underlying intelligence to adapt to changing environments, reduce recurring false detections, and learn new signals. About skydio. Skydio, the largest U.S. drone manufacturer and world leader in flying robots, leverages breakthrough AI-backed autonomy to create drones that are easier to operate, safer to fly, and more capable in complex environments. Every branch of the U.S. military, the armed forces of 29 allied nations, and more than 4,000 agencies and organizations across the U.S. in the public safety and critical infrastructure sectors trust Skydio systems. Skydio designs, assembles, and supports its products in the United States from its headquarters in San Mateo, California. For more information, follow Skydio on LinkedIn or visit skydio.com.

AirSight has partnered with Skydio to integrate real-time drone detection with autonomous aerial response. The collaboration connects AirSight's AirGuard detection platform with Skydio's remote operations, enabling security teams to deploy monitoring drones within seconds of detecting potential threats. The system works in five steps: AirGuard's sensors detect unauthorised drones, enrich threat data including GPS coordinates and flight paths, alert Skydio operations, deploy an autonomous monitoring drone in under 20 seconds, and stream live visuals for assessment. The integration addresses growing concerns over drone activity near critical infrastructure, including energy facilities, data centres, and public utilities. According to the Department of Homeland Security's 2025 Homeland Threat Assessment, such activity can disrupt operations and emergency response. Skydio is the largest US drone manufacturer, with systems used by all branches of the US military and over 4,000 agencies nationwide.