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SZ DJI Engineering Co., Ltd.

Headquarters at the Skyworth Semiconductor Design Building in Shenzhen
Trade name	DJI
Native name	大疆创新科技有限公司
Type	Private
Industry	Technology consumer electronics videography photography
Founded	2006; sixteen years ago  (2006)
Founder	Frank Wang (Wang Tao)
Headquarters	Shenzhen, Guangdong , People’s republic of china
Area served	Worldwide
Products	Unmanned aerial vehicles Camcorder Camera stabilizer Flying platform Gimbal Flying controller Propulsion system Robotics
Revenue	CN¥24 billion (U.s.$3.83 billion) [one]  (2021)
Number of employees	14,000 [2]  (2018)
Divisions	China Japan North America Europe Chile
Subsidiaries	Hasselblad
Website	www.dji.com

SZ DJI Applied science Co., Ltd.

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or
Shenzhen DJI Sciences and Technologies Ltd.
(Chinese:
深圳大疆创新科技有限公司) in full,
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more popularly known as its
trade name
DJI, which stands for
Da-Jiang
Innovations (大疆创新; ‘Great Borderland Innovations’), is a Chinese
technology company
headquartered in
Shenzhen,
Guangdong, with manufacturing facilities throughout the world. DJI articles commercial
unmanned aerial vehicles
(drones) for
aerial photography
and
videography. It likewise designs and articles
photographic camera gimbals,
action cameras, photographic camera stabilizers, flying platforms,
propulsion systems
and
flight control systems.

DJI accounts for around 70% of the world’southward consumer drone market every bit of March 2020.
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Its camera drone technology is widely used in the
music,
television
and
film industries. The visitor’southward products have also been used by militaries and law forces,
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as well as terrorist groups, with the visitor taking steps to limit admission to the latter.
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Usa government institutions have prohibited the internal utilize of DJI products,
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but as of 2020, various agencies at the local and federal level continued to utilize DJI products.
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In Dec 2021, the
Usa Department of the Treasury
prohibited investment in DJI past U.Due south. individuals and entities, accusing the company of complicity in aiding the
Uyghur genocide.
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History

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The company was founded in 2006 by
Frank Wang
(Wāng Tāo,
汪滔).
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Born in
Hangzhou,
Zhejiang, he enrolled as a college student in the
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
(HKUST) in 2003. He was part of the HKUST team participating in
ABU Robocon
and won tertiary prize.
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Wang built the outset prototypes of DJI’due south projects in his dorm room, selling the flying control components to universities and Chinese electrical companies. He used the proceeds to move to the industrial hub of
Shenzhen
and hired a small number of staff in 2006. The company struggled at start, with a high caste of
churn
amid employees that has been attributed to Wang’southward abrasive personality and perfectionist expectations of his employees. The company sold a modest amount of components during this catamenia, relying besides on financial back up from Wang’s family unit friend, Lu Di, who provided US$xc,000 and managed the company’s finances.
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In 2009, DJI’s components immune a team to successfully pilot a drone around the height of Mt. Everest.
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In 2010, Wang hired a high schoolhouse friend, Swift Xie Jia, to run the company’southward marketing. DJI began to cater more than to drone hobbyists in markets outside of China. In 2011, Wang met Colin Guinn at a trade show, and the two of them founded DJI N America, a subsidiary company focusing on mass market place drone sales. In 2013, DJI released the kickoff model of the
Phantom
drone, an entry-level drone which was more user-friendly than other drones on the market at the time.

The Phantom was commercially successful, but information technology led to disharmonize between Guinn and Wang. Midway through the yr, Wang made an offer to purchase Guinn out, which Guinn refused. Past the end of the yr, DJI had locked all employees of the North American subsidiary out of their email accounts and was well on its manner to shutting down the subsidiary’s operations. Guinn sued DJI, with the instance being settled out of court.
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In 2015, DJI eclipsed the success of the Phantom with the release of the Phantom 3, whose fifty-fifty greater popularity was in part due to the addition of a built in live-streaming photographic camera.
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DJI was now the largest consumer drone company in the world,
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driving many of its competitors out of the marketplace over the following years.
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2015 as well marked the kickoff of DJI’due south
RoboMaster Robotics Competition
(
机甲大师赛
), an almanac international collegiate
robot combat
tournament held at the
Shenzhen Bay Sports Middle.
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In Nov 2015, DJI announced the institution of a strategic partnership with
Hasselblad.
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In January 2019, DJI acquired a bulk pale in Hasselblad.<sup>[

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In 2017, DJI won a
Technology & Engineering science Emmy Accolade
for its camera drone applied science, which was used in the filming of various television shows including

The Amazing Race
,

American Ninja Warrior
,

Better Call Saul

and

Game of Thrones
.
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That same year, Wang became Asia’s youngest tech billionaire,
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and globe’southward very first drone billionaire.
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Also in 2017, signed a strategic cooperation agreement to provide surveillance drones for use past the Chinese police in
Xinjiang.
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On 5 June 2018,
police force torso cam
and
Taser
maker
Axon
announced a partnership with DJI to sell surveillance drones to U.S. law departments.
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Equally of 2020, DJI products are also widely used by U.S. law and fire departments.
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On 21 January 2019, DJI announced that an internal probe had uncovered “all-encompassing” fraud by certain employees who “inflated the costs of parts and materials for certain products for personal financial gain.”
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DJI estimated the cost of the fraud at “upward to CN¥1 billion” (US$147 million), but maintained that the company “did not incur a full yr loss in 2018.”
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In January 2020, the
The states Department of the Interior
announced that it would be grounding around 800 drones, which it had been using for wildlife conservation and infrastructure monitoring purposes. Every bit of March 2020, DJI holds nearly 77% of the United states marketplace share for consumer drones, with no other company holding more than 4%.
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In 2020, DJI drones are being used past many countries around the world to combat the
Coronavirus.
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In Mainland china, DJI drones are used by the law strength to remind people to wear masks. In other countries, such as Morocco and Saudi arabia, DJI drones are used to disinfect urban areas and monitor human temperatures in order to contain the spread of Coronavirus.
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Corporation structure and infrastructure

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In 2018, DJI raised roughly $one billion in funds in preparation for an envisioned
IPO
at the
Hong Kong Stock Commutation.
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As of July 2020, these rumors persisted with no indication that an IPO is forthcoming.
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The visitor had previously raised $500 million in a 2015 funding round from investors including New Communist china Life Insurance Co Ltd, GIC, and New Horizon Uppercase, the latter beingness co-founded past the son of Cathay’s old premier minister
Wen Jiabao.
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DJI counts roughly fourteen,000 employees and has 17 offices internationally.
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The company is known for having a very hard hiring process, as well as an extremely competitive internal culture, where teams are ofttimes pitted against each other to blueprint better products.
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DJI’due south factories in Shenzhen include highly sophisticated automatic associates lines. Many of the components for these assembly lines are congenital in-house.
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Products

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Flight systems

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Controllers

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DJI develops flying controllers intended for multi-rotor stabilization command of various platforms or heavy payloads in aeriform photography. The A2 controller includes orientation, landing, and home return features. Products include GPS-compass receivers,
LED
indicators and
Bluetooth
connectivity.
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Model	A2	Naza V2	Wookong-M	Naza-M Low-cal
Number of motors supported	4–8	4–8	4–8	four–6
Has built-in receiver	aye (ii.4 GHz)	no	no	no
Hovering accuracy (m)	vertical: ±0.5m / horizontal: ±1.5m	vertical: ±0.8m / horizontal: ±2.5m	vertical: ±0.5m / horizontal: ±2m	vertical: ±0.8m / horizontal: ±2.5m
Motor-rotor configuration	quad-rotor: +4,X4; hex-rotor: +vi,X6,Y6,Rev Y6; octo-rotor: +8,X8,V8	quad-rotor: I4, X4; hex-rotor: I6, X6, IY6, Y6; octo-rotor: I8,V8,X8	quad-rotor: +4,X4; hex-rotor: +6,X6,Y6,Rev Y6; octo-rotor: +8,X8,V8	quad-rotor I4, X4; hex-rotor I6, X6, IY6, Y6

Photographic camera stabilization, platforms

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Ronin

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The Ronin (如影) is a standalone ground-based
camera platform
developed for cinematography and aerial filmmaking in professional environments. Information technology is built for professional videography and photography and targets the film manufacture. Past using three individual motors, Ronin stabilizes when moving vigorously.
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Later models of the Ronin include the Ronin-K, Ronin two, Ronin-S, Ronin-SC, and the Ronin 4D.
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Modules

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Module	Lightbridge	PMU (A2, Wookong, Naza V2, Naza Lite)	iOSD Marker Ii	iOSD mini	BTU
Blazon (Purpose)	Video Downlink	Power Management	On-Screen Display	On-Screen Brandish	Bluetooth Link
Works With	A2, Wookong-G, Naza V2	A2, Wookong-Thou, Naza V2, Naza-M Lite	A2, Wookong-Thousand, Naza V2	A2, Wookong-M, Naza V2	Naza V2
Interface	CAN Bus	CAN Omnibus, Battery Connection	CAN Bus	CAN Motorbus	Tin can Bus
Battery Requirements	4S-6S Lipo	4S-12S Lipo	4S Lipo and Shared Flight Controller Power	2S Lipo and Shared Flight Controller Ability	Shared Flight Controller Power

UAVs

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Flame Cycle

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The Flame Cycle (风火轮) serial are
multirotor
platforms for aerial photography. Every bit of 2016, there is the
hexacopter
F550, and
quadcopters
F330 and F450. The most recent is the ARF KIT.
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Model	Flame Wheel F330	Flame Wheel F450	Flame Bicycle F550
Diagonal wheelbase (cm)	33	45	69
Frame weight (grand)	156	282	478
Accept-off weight (g)	600–1200	800–1600	1200–2400

Phantom

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The Phantom (精灵) series has evolved to integrated flight programming with a camera,
Wi-Fi
or Lightbridge connectivity, and the pilot’s
mobile device.
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Phantoms are made for aerial cinematography and photography applications,
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but are besides used in recreational use.
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There have at present been 4 generations of the product line, the most recent ane is the Phantom 4 RTK, announced on Oct fifteen, 2018.
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Model	Phantom 1	Phantom 2	Phantom 2 Vision	Phantom 2 Vision+	Phantom FC40	Phantom 3 Standard	Phantom 3 4K	Phantom 3 Avant-garde	Phantom three Professional	Phantom 3 SE	Phantom 4	Phantom 4 Pro	Phantom 4 Advanced	Phantom 4 Pro v2.0
Diagonal wheelbase (mm)	350	350	350	350	350	350	350	350	350	350	350	350	350	350
Elevation (m)	0.19	0.nineteen	0.19	0.19	0.19	0.19	0.19	0.19	0.19	0.19	0.xix	0.19	0.19	0.19
Power consumption (W)	three.12	—	—	—	3.12	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Take-off weight (g)	< 1200	< 1300	1180	1284	1200	1216	1280	1280	1280	1280	1380	1388	1368	1375
Max speed (yard/s)	10	15	15	fifteen	10	16	16	xvi	sixteen	16	twenty	20	twenty	20
Endurance (min)	—	25	25	25	ten	25	25	23	23	25	28	xxx	30	30
Rate of climb/descend (m/s)	6	6/2	6/2	half dozen/ii	half-dozen	five/3	v/iii	v/three	5/3	5/3	6/4	6/four	half dozen/4	6/4
Operating temperature (°C)	−10 to fifty	−10 to 50	—	—	−x to 50	0 to 40	0 to forty	0 to 40	0 to xl	0 to forty	0 to 40	0 to twoscore	0 to xl	0 to forty
Maximum distance (m)						6000	6000	6000	6000	6000	6000	6000	6000	6000
Maximum range (m)						1000				4000	5000	7000	7000	7000

Mavic

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The Mavic (御) series currently includes Mavic Pro, Mavic Pro Platinum, Mavic Air, Mavic Air ii, DJI Air 2S, Mavic 2 Pro, Mavic 2 Zoom, Mavic 2 Enterprise, Mavic 2 Enterprise Advanced, Mavic iii, Mavic 3 Cinematics, Mavic Mini, DJI Mini SE, and DJI Mini 2. The release of the Mavic Air two was non without controversy, however, equally DJI appear that a fundamental prophylactic feature, AirSense (ADS-B), would not be available on models outside the USA.
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Shortages on components and complexities of production owing to the ongoing COVID-19 crunch at the time were blamed.

Starting with the Mini 2, the Mavic name was dropped from most of the new models such every bit the Air 2S and the Mini SE.

DJI released the Air 2S on April 15, 2021.

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The DJI Mavic 3 and the Mavic 3 Cine was released on November 4, 2021, at 10PM EDT.
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The Mavic three superseded the Mavic 2 Pro and the Mavic 2 Zoom and was priced for prosumers and professionals more hobbyists.

Model	Mavic Pro [46]	Mavic Air [47]	Mavic 2 Pro [48]	Mavic 2 Zoom [48]	Mavic iii [49]	Mavic 3 Cine [49]	Mavic Air 2 [50]	Air 2S [51]	Mavic Mini [52]	Mini 2 [53]
Maximum Speed (Sport manner, no wind)	18.0 g/s	19.0 m/s	xx m/southward	20 grand/southward	xix yard/s	19 one thousand/s	19 m/s	19 k/southward	13 m/southward	sixteen m/south
Maximum Speed (P-Mode)	9.7 m/due south	6.9 m/south	13.4 one thousand/s	13.4 1000/south	15 m/s	15 m/s	12 g/s	15 m/s	8 m/s	10 m/s
Empty weight (grams)	734 (without gimbal cover) / 743 (with gimbal cover)	430 (without gimbal cover)	907 (max takeoff weight)	905 (max takeoff weight)	895 (max takeoff weight)	899 (max takeoff weight)	570 (max takeoff weight)	595 (Takeoff weight)	249 (default) / 199 (Japan)	249
Flight time	~27 Mins	~21 Mins	~31 Mins	~31 Mins	~46 Mins	~46 Mins	~34 Mins	31 Mins	~30 Mins	~31 Mins
Operating temperature (°C)	0° to 40 °C	0° to 40 °C	-10° to xl °C	-10° to 40 °C	-ten° to 40 °C	-ten° to forty °C	-10° to forty °C	0° to xl °C	0° to twoscore °C	0° to forty °C
Range (with controller)	vii km, 3.5 km with CE controller	4 km, 2 km with CE controller	eight km	viii km	30 km	30 km	10 km, six km with CE controller	18.5 km(No wind)	iv km, 2 km with CE controller	10 km

Spreading Wings

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The Spreading Wings (筋斗云) series are mainly industrial UAVs for professional person aerial photography, high definition 3D mapping, ultra-light search and rescue, and surveillance etc. based on camera gear on board. In 2013, ii models were released: S800 regular and EVO.
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Model	Spreading Wings S800	Spreading Wings S800 EVO	Spreading Wings S900	Spreading Wings S1000
Diagonal wheelbase (cm)	80	80	90	104.5
Empty weight (kg)	2.half dozen	3.vii	3.three	4.two
Take-off weight (kg)	5 – vii	6 – 8	4.7 – 8.two	6 – xi
Endurance (min)	16	twenty	xviii	fifteen
Operating temperature (°C)	—	—	– 10 to 40	– 10 to xl

Inspire

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The Inspire (悟) series is a professional serial of camera quadcopters similar to the Phantom line, only with an aluminum-magnesium trunk with carbon fibre artillery, besides as detachable props on the Inspire ii. It was presented in 2017.
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Inspire specifications:
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Model	Inspire 1	Inspire ane Pro	Inspire 2 [57]
Weight	2935 one thousand (Battery included)	3400 one thousand (Bombardment, propellers and Zenmuse X5 included)	3440 grand (Battery, propellers and camera on board)
Takeoff weight	3400 g	3500 g	4000 grand
Hovering accuracy GPS mode	vertical: 0.five m; horizontal: 2.5 1000	vertical: 0.5 k; horizontal: 2.v m	vertical: 0.five one thousand; horizontal: ane.5 m
Max angular velocity	pitch: 300°/southward； yaw: 150°/due south	pitch: 300°/s； yaw: 150°/s	pitch: 300°/s； yaw: 150°/s
Max tilt angle	35°	35°	35°
Max ascension/descent speed	5/iv m/s	5/iv thousand/s	five/6 one thousand/s
Max speed	22 m/southward (ATTI mode, no wind)	18 m/s (ATTI mode, no wind)	24 one thousand/s (ATTI way, no wind)
Max flight altitude	4500 m	4500 thou	4500 m
Max current of air speed resistance	x m/s	10 m/southward	10 m/due south
Operating temperature range	−10°−xl °C	−ten°−40 °C	−20°−40 °C
Max flying time	approximately 18 minutes	approximately 15 minutes	approximately 27 minutes
Indoor hovering	Enabled by default	Enabled by default	Enabled by default
Release date	Nov xiii, 2014	January 5, 2016	November 16, 2016

Matrice

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The Matrice (经纬) serial is designed for industrial applications, including surveying, inspection, search and rescue and firefighting.
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The Matrice 100 is a fully programmable and customizable drone, launched on July six, 2015.
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It has expansion bay and communication ports, which allows developers to add additional components for different purposes.
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The Matrice 600pro was released November 2016, followed past the Matrice 200 appear in February 2017.

Spark

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Released in May 2017, the Spark (晓) features a 12-megapixel camera stabilized mechanically by a ii-axis gimbal. The Spark also carries an advanced infrared 3D camera that helps the drone to detect obstacles in front of it, too as facilitating paw-gesture control. In addition to a smartphone app with virtual controller, a physical controller tin can as well be bought.
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At that place have been multiple complaints that the drone switches off and fall while flight.
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DJI responded to this by releasing a mandatory battery firmware update in August 2017.
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In Nov 2019 the Mavic Mini was released, replacing the Spark in DJI’due south consumer line-upward.

FPV

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On March 2, 2021, DJI announced the launch of the DJI FPV, an entirely new type of hybrid drone combining the
first-person view
(FPV) and high-speed operation of
racing drones, the cinematic camera and reliability of traditional consumer drones, and an optional innovative
motion controller
that allows pilots to control the drone with merely single-handed movements. Based on DJI’due south earlier
Digital FPV system, the drone features high-operation motors for a maximum
air speed
of 140 km/h (87 mph) and a
0-100 km
acceleration of just 2 seconds under manual manner, an intuitive
user interface
and the latest safety features for greater
flight command. The new FPV system lets pilots see from the drone’s perspective in low-latency
high-definition video
thanks to “O3”, the third iteration of DJI’s proprietary OcuSync technology. Information technology allows pilots to capture ultra-smooth and stable
4K video
at 60
fps
with the stabilization of RockSteady
electronic image stabilization.
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Camcorders

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Osmo

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The Osmo (灵眸) is a
camcorder
developed past DJI. The photographic camera uses a
smartphone
to view camera footage and can tape 4K and accept either 12–xvi MP stills. After models include the Osmo Pocket
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and the Osmo Activity.
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The Osmo mobile relies on the user’s smartphone equally the camera. Most smartphones are accepted into the gimbal with a width range of 2.31–3.34 inch (58.6-84.8 mm). The original Osmo Mobile has reached its finish-of-life and has been replaced with a 2d generation, called Mobile Osmo ii.
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Osmo Mobile 3 was announced in August 2019, and is designed for the social media crowd.
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Zenmuse gimbal-cameras

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The Zenmuse (
禅思
) series of
gimbal cameras
are a mixed system made of a compact photographic camera and a 3-centrality gimbal, designed as a office of a modular arrangement, for instance fastened to UAVs. The 2019
Zenmuse X7
gimbal photographic camera features a camera with interchangeable 4 prime number DJI
DL-mount lenses.

Goggles

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The
DJI FPV series

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are
head-mounted displays
designed for
FPV
drone flying. At that place are two different product lines in the FPV series, the
DJI Goggles
(DJI
飞行眼镜
) and the
Digital FPV System
(FPV
数字图传系统
). The DJI Goggles are designed to interface with DJI-branded drones, using dual
LC display
screens, wireless connectivity and directly photo and video capture command. In November 2017, DJI as well released DJI Goggles RE (“Racing Edition”), which featured compatibility with
racing
quadcopters.
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The DJI Digital FPV Organization is a standalone system designed for not-DJI brand or
custom-built
drones.
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Educational robots

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RoboMaster S1

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On 11 June 2019, DJI unveiled the
RoboMaster S1
(
机甲大师

S1), its outset consumer
footing drone, named later on DJI’s annual
RoboMaster
robot combat
contest,
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of which it is now an unofficial
mascot. The S1 is a
tank-like
rover
remotely controlled in
start-person view
via
Wi-Fi
and an
app
on
Microsoft Windows,
Apple tree iOS
or
Google Android
mobile devices. Designed to be an “advanced educational robot”, the user has to assemble the S1 out of the box from loose parts and learn to program its
AI
functionality. Both
Scratch
and
Python
are
programming languages
employed by DJI along with app learning modules to teach the
terminate user
how to
code.
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RoboMaster EP

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The DJI
RoboMaster EP
(
机甲大师

EP) was officially released on March 9, 2020, although it was first teased in a
YouTube
RoboMaster S1 commercial on November 25, 2019.
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On August 8, 2020, DJI formally launched an upgraded version named
RoboMaster EP Core. Intended to be a counterpart to the Engineer robot from the competition, the EP Core features a
gripper
and numerous infrared
distance sensors
that can detect betwixt 0.1–10 m (3.nine in – 32 ft 9.vii in).

The EP supports more than xx third-party sensors and open up-source hardware such as
Micro Chip,
Arduino
and
Raspberry Pi.
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Controversies

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Privacy and security concerns in the U.S.

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The
United states of america Department of the Interior
Office of Aviation Services said in their assay in July 2017 that DJI’south software they did not meet requirement “to decline and lock out any device information sharing including telemetry through shipping, software or applications preventing any automated uploads or downloads.”

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As response DJI published the offline style that allows its drones to wing without transferring data over the internet.
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The Register reported in August 2017 that the DJI’s Go app independent JSPatch framework which allowed DJI to hot-patch the app without triggering a review by Apple, or without first seeking user consent. This was against Apple’s rules and 45,000 apps were blocked from the AppStore because of “hot patching concerns”.
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In August the
Us Army
also changed its internal guidance on disallowing the employ of DJI products, especially in battleground scenarios. Guidance was based on an Regular army Research Laboratory report from May 2017 which institute cyber-vulnerabilities.
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The Us Ground forces’s decision launched public inquiry where it was speculated that the determination was because the information link between the controller and the drone was vulnerable.
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Equally result, DJI released bug compensation programme for finding flaws. Security researcher Kevin Finisterre reported a security breach of private customer information at DJI to the bug bounty program. In the breach, developers had pushed the private keys for SSL, Cloud storage and firmware AES keys to a GitHub repository. As per Finisterre’southward description in Ars Technica, he was
able to access flying log data and images uploaded by DJI customers, including photos of government IDs, drivers licenses, and passports. Some of the data included flying logs from accounts associated with government and military domains.
Yet, the subsequently the long discussion with DJI’due south legal squad, he decided to turn down the $thirty,000 bounty and publish the information.
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In 2018, in response to the allegations of mishandling user data, DJI commissioned Kivu Consulting to brand larger assay. Kivu found that simply DJI Go four app was connected to the Internet, information technology worked without Net connection and only uploaded information after user confirmation. It as well used servers which were located in the Us except the crash reporting app called Bugly which uploaded crash reports to the server located in China.
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In January 2020, the United states of america Department of the Interior appear that it would be grounding effectually 800 DJI drones over security concerns, which it had been using for wildlife conservation and infrastructure monitoring purposes.
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In a May 2020 study analyzing the data use of DJI’s
Mimo
app, which is used to control the
Osmo
gimbles from a smartphone, security research company River Loop Security made several discoveries “of business organization” for users and policy-makers.
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According to the researchers, the social media app sends a diversity of data, including sensitive personal information, through insecure ways to servers located in China without user consent, raising suspicions that personal user data could be freely accessible to the Chinese government.
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User information was too sent to 3rd-party servers, “where the Terms of Utilise Agreement supports cooperation with the Chinese Government.”
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In July 2020, the reports by Synacktiv and GRIMM on the security of the
DJI GO
four mobile app found that information technology collected user information (IMSI, IMEI, the series number of the SIM card) from phones and was able to strength the installation of updates. The app as well prompted the user to grant permission to “Install Unknown Apps” for installing update from DJI site.
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The app also integrated to social media site Weibo’s SDK similar mode and allowed to install Weibo related tertiary-party apps also. Synacktiv wrote “Given the broad permissions required past DJI GO 4 — contacts, microphone, camera, location, storage, change network connectivity — the DJI or Weibo Chinese servers have virtually total control over the user’s phone.”
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DJI responded that “organisation detects if a DJI app is not the official version – for instance, if information technology has been modified to remove critical flight prophylactic features like geofencing or altitude restrictions – we notify the user and require them to download the most contempo official version of the app from our website. In future versions, users will also be able to download the official version from Google Play if information technology is available in their state”
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In the statement release DJI said that to use Weibo SDK user’s need proactively plough it on.
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DJI also responded that “DJI Go four is not able to restart itself without input from the user, and we are investigating why these researchers claim (that it will stay running after it is airtight) ”.
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In August 2020, Synacktiv alleged that DJI’s Pilot app shares many of the same issues present in DJI Go iv, which DJI denied.

In assay by Booz Allen Hamilton reported that he didn’t find evidence unauthorized information transfers to China. The apps used the backend servers located in Us. Only exception was the crash analytics which contacted to Chinese servers.
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In November 2020, senators
Chris Coons,
Rick Scott, and others criticized a decision by the
United States Air Force
to purchase DJI drones on security grounds.
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U.Southward. sanctions

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In December 2020, the
United States Section of Commerce
added DJI to the
Bureau of Industry and Security‘s
Entity List.
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In January 2021, Trump signed an executive order mandating the removal of Chinese-made drones from U.S. government fleets.
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In December 2021, the
The states Section of the Treasury
prohibited investment in DJI by U.South. individuals and entities, accusing the company of assisting the
People’s Liberation Regular army
and complicity in aiding the
Uyghur genocide.
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Pentagon analysis

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In May 2021,
United States Department of Defense
issued an analysis on DJI products. The unclassified portion of the report concluded that two
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types of drone in the DJI “Authorities Edition” line-upwardly shows “no malicious code or intent and are recommended for employ past government entities and forces working with US services.”
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This is according to a summary obtained past

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though the Defence Department did not respond to an research request for elaboration.

Incidents involving DJI products

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In January 2015, a Phantom 3 crashed into the
White House‘south south lawn, in
Washington, D.C., United states of america.
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DJI afterward gear up up a no-fly Geo-arrangement according to
prohibited airspace, and forced all drones to update the firmware. The new system volition preclude flights getting closer or take off in restricted zones based on its GPS location.
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In the
2015 Tokyo drone incident, a DJI Phantom ii drone carrying radioactive material was landed on the
Prime Minister’south Official Residence. After, the
National Diet
passed a constabulary restricting drone flights near regime buildings and nuclear sites.
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In 2016,
ISIS
used DJI drones as exploding devices in
Iraq.
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DJI later created a broad no-fly zone over nearly all of Republic of iraq and
Syria.
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That yr, a DJI drone was nearly involved in a midair collision with a Chinese fighter jet. The Chinese government subsequently insisted that DJI develop an air traffic registry to track its drones within China.
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On xxx March 2018,
Israel Defence force Forces
used DJI’s Matrice 600 drone to drop tear gas from above, causing injuries, panic and death during
Gaza
and
W Depository financial institution
protests.
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On 4 Baronial 2018,
ii Matrice 600 drones detonated explosives
near
Avenida Bolívar, Caracas
in an credible attempt to assassinate
Venezuelan president
Nicolás Maduro.
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2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

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In 2022, Ukrainian Vice Prime Minister
Mykhailo Fedorov
said that DJI drones were being used by Russia against Ukrainian forces via the drones’ AeroScope function.
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DJI technical support after replied to him.

The Verge

has not institute any confirmed reports and interviewed a DJI spokesperson to analyze the issue.
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After German retailer
Media Markt
stopped selling DJI drones, the company stated that its products are for civilian use and inappropriate for the armed forces.
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Ukraine has used DJI drones extensively later being
invaded by Russia, while battlefield footage suggests their usage by Russian federation likewise. After criticism of the visitor’s operation in Russia, DJI suspended its business to prevent its products from being used in combat.
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Reports from Ukraine have illustrated the utilise of DJI tracking engineering science existence provided to Russian forces past China.
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See also

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• Listing of unmanned aerial vehicles of Red china
• List of Chinese companies

References

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External links

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• 
  
  
  Media related to
  DJI (company)
  at Wikimedia Eatables
• 
  
  Official website