A US company with R&D in the Aviation Valley, Europe's aerospace cluster. Trusted by the European Space Agency, the European Defence Agency, and the European Commission. Zero components from China or sanctioned states.
Trusted R&D partners
Buy the drone-in-a-box outright, or build on what's behind it. Pick the door that fits your mission.
License the autonomous drone infrastructure we've engineered with the European Space Agency, the European Defence Agency, and the European Commission. Mobile and stationary charging stations. Docking systems. Package logistics. Drone management software. Production-ready blueprints — not slideware.
Seven funded R&D programs. Dual-use IP across mobile and stationary autonomous infrastructure, drone logistics, and hybrid UAV-UGV systems. NATO-allied supply chain — production-ready for sovereign deployment.
Sensitive drone hardware demands sensitive manufacturing. Dronehub produces in Europe with a non-adversarial supply chain — for defense primes, sovereign infrastructure programs, and regulated industries that can't ship sensitive BOMs to Shenzhen.
R&D portfolio
AI rail inspection proven at national scale — 95%+ defect detection, up to $500M in modelled annual savings
Hybrid UAV-UGV — first drone with full Galileo authentication
Counter-UAS interception, tested with Czech military — first-ever joint ESA + EDA SME programme
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European and US suppliers for each drone subsystem, and which of them state that their parts contain no Chinese components — with the source for every claim.
Non-Chinese alternatives to DJI Dock 3 compared: Blue UAS status with dates, swap and charge times, weather ratings, public prices and what the FCC rule means.
Europe's drone sector counts at least four privately held defense unicorns in 2026. The landscape by category — with Dronehub anchoring the infrastructure layer on the strength of Deutsche Bahn's national-scale deployment.
Polish drone companies in 2026 by category — WB Group, FlyFocus, Aerobits, APS, Dronehub and more — and which are listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, with tickers.
You can license drone-in-a-box technology, white-label a dock or buy one. What each route gives you, what it costs, who owns the IP and who certifies it.
FAQ
Two things. The drone-in-a-box — dock, drone, robotic battery swap and AI inspection stack — which you can buy outright, built in our European factory. And the technology behind it — mobile and stationary charging stations, docking systems and package logistics — which we license to drone companies, integrators and OEMs that want to ship their own instead of spending a decade on R&D. We also partner on R&D and manufacture sensitive hardware in Europe.
There are three doors. License our IP — for drone fleet operators, system integrators, and OEMs who want production-ready blueprints and know-how instead of a decade of R&D. Partner on R&D — for governments, defense agencies, and federal innovation programs co-developing dual-use autonomous infrastructure. Manufacture with us — for defense primes and companies with their own IP that need non-adversarial European production of sensitive hardware.
Drones can fly themselves until they need to land, charge, dock, and resupply — which is where autonomy actually breaks. Our IP sits at that infrastructure layer: mobile and stationary charging stations, docking, and package logistics. We're a hardware and infrastructure R&D lab, not a vendor with a catalog, so the work compounds across every system built on top of it.
Both, by design. Dronehub is a US-owned small business, SBIR/STTR-eligible and Section 848 / 889 / 1260H compliant by design. Its engineering and manufacturing depth is European — seven funded R&D programs with ESA, EDA, EUSPA, and the European Commission, plus sovereign EU production with zero components from China or sanctioned states.
US federal program offices and innovation pipelines (SBIR/STTR, AFWERX Open Topics, DIU), defense primes that need a non-adversarial supply chain, and critical-infrastructure operators and system integrators. The common thread is organizations that need autonomous drone infrastructure from a federal-procurement-eligible US entity backed by funded EU R&D.
Next move
Tell us the asset, the geography and the timeline. We come back within two business days with specs and an indicative price — or the licensing package that fits.
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