“I think a default expectation in five years is if there's an emergency, you call 9-1-1, a drone shows up in a few seconds and that's gonna be everywhere in the US, hopefully everywhere in the world. And that's gonna change the way policing works.”

At the time of the prediction Skydio said its drones were in more than 1,200 US public-safety agencies across 42 states, with drone-as-first-responder programs still limited to individual jurisdictions.