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Russian civilian UAV market: key trends, manufacturer guide

2025/02/26
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The creation and use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in various sectors of the economy is a booming advanced segment of the Russian industry. Active growth is observed both in quantitative (an increase in the number of manufacturers and production areas) and in qualitative terms (application of the results of new scientific and technical research, innovative engineering and schematic engineering solutions). Read about how this market is developing in the new TAdviser review.

The explosive growth of interest of Russian companies in the creation of unmanned aircraft systems (ALS) of various classes, of course, is to a certain extent associated with the events of February 2022. The needs of SVO became the catalyst for the growth of this market segment, which began to form in the early "tenths." Thus, the results of the research work "Taiga," carried out in 2018 in the Tomsk region on the initiative of the Fund for Advanced Research and the Military-Industrial Commission of the Russian Federation in the Tomsk region, showed that more than 30 large organizations are interested in using services using unmanned aircraft systems. "These are companies working in the oil and gas sector, power, forestry and agriculture, state authorities and municipalities," the press service of the regional administration said.

1The formation of a new segment of the Russian economy

Special (non-civilian) ALS became a driver of UAV market growth after 2022, showing growth of 318% in 2023 compared to the previous year. Sales of civilian ALS increased by 55%. Such data are given in an analytical study of the Russian civil market for ALS, conducted by the Aeronext Association.

Dynamics of revenue growth on average in the UAV industry.
Source: Aeronext Association, 2023

Similar growth figures are given by Rostelecom"" in its study "The market for civilian unmanned aerial vehicles. The volume, dynamics and scenarios for the use of drones in the sectors of the economy, "published in early 2024. According to experts from Rostelecom B2E (a division engaged in the creation of industry technological solutions within the framework of partnerships with large business Business to Enterprise), the Russian market for UAVs operating in the economy grew in 2023 by 63% and exceeded 8 billion rubles. It is expected that by the end of 2024 its volume will amount to more than 13 billion rubles. (CAGR + 58%), and by 2028 will reach 81 billion rubles.

Source: Rostelecom, 2024

Since the beginning of 2024, the development of the "drone" segment, as Vasily Shpak called it, the deputy head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, who oversees this area, has been going on in our country under the auspices of the national project "Unmanned Aircraft Systems," approved on December 26, 2023. A complex task has been set that covers a number of large-scale areas: from the formation of a unified technological policy and the creation of regulatory support to the management of financial and economic processes for the introduction of drones into the practical life of industries and specific enterprises, for example, in the form of leasing schemes.

The national project involves supporting the production of ALS on the basis of domestic development lines, which implies the introduction of Russian key technologies, components and components into production. This is an ambitious task of import substitution in industry, because, according to expert estimates, by now the level of localization of the production of Russian drones is about 30%. In this regard, a significant role at the first stage of the megaproject belongs to the technological part: it is necessary to create a register of existing technologies and ready-made technical solutions, form maps of technological cooperation, identify end-to-end elements that can be unified in various types of ALS, agree on unified communication and infrastructure standards, as well as approve regulatory requirements for drones in terms of key technologies. For example, for aircraft, this class includes technologies for accurate autonomous landing, dynamic routing, detection and remote identification of BVS (BVS - unmanned aircraft), automatic prevention of collisions between unmanned and manned aircraft.

Federal funding in the amount of 696 billion rubles until 2030 has been allocated for the development of unmanned aviation within the framework of the national project. Funds will be directed, among other things, to subsidies for the creation of a Russian network of research and production centers (SPC ALS). Until 2027, 48 such centers will be created in the regions, including in,,,,,,,,, Samara Tomsk Sakhalin Ryazan Nizhny Novgorod Novosibirsk Tula as well as Sverdlovsk regions,,,. Sevastopol St. Petersburg Bashkortostan Tatarstan

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Unmanned aerial vehicles are one of the technological priorities of the industrial policy of the Sverdlovsk region. Enterprises of the region are actively selling their products in foreign markets, including in Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Vietnam, India, the United Arab Emirates, - said the Minister of Industry and Science of the Sverdlovsk Region Sergey Perestoronin in August 2023. - Plans to increase ALS production from 2.6 thousand units in 2024 to 9.6 thousand units in 2030.
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The introduction of an experimental legal regime (EPR) is aimed at supporting the formation of a new industry. By the fall of 2023, the EPR for the operation of agricultural drones was introduced in 18 regions of the country. It is expected that in three years agrodrons will process plants on agricultural land with a total area of ​ ​ 490 thousand hectares in Tatarstan, Altai and,, Stavropol Territory,, Astrakhan,, Volgograd, and Voronezh Lipetsk. Nizhny Novgorod Novosibirsk EPR in the Saratov Tambovskaya Ulyanovsk regions Tomsk region, in,, Chukotka and Kamchatka Territory Khanty-Mansiysk Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Districts is intended for research of the use of BVS for the transportation of goods, aerial photography and aviation work. So, "" Russian Post is laying seven routes for the delivery of parcels using drones in Yamal and twenty-one routes in Chukotka.

The state also supports the development of the "drone" industry by creating a civil state order. The plan of the state civil state order for drones for the period 2024-2026 has been adopted. It denotes the following planned figures: 2023 - 4.4 billion rubles. (taking into account state-owned companies), 2024-2025. - 93 billion rubles, until 2030 - 200 billion rubles. The largest state customers of ALS are such departments as the Ministry of Emergency Situations, Rosgvardia, Rosreestr, the Ministry of Education. In the period 2018-2022. almost 2 thousand state contracts were concluded in the country for a total of 13 billion rubles. (data from the newspaper Kommersant-Siberia, 25.08.2023).

The methodology for evaluating drone manufacturers to participate in the execution of the state order is agreed with the criteria proposed by the State Transport Leasing Company (GTLK) and the National Technology Initiative Fund (NTI).

On the basis of GTLK and NTI in 2022, the first unmanned aviation operator in Russia with state participation, BAS LLC, was created. It is planned that by the end of 2027 the operator's fleet will number more than 400 aircraft.

Source: GTLK, 2022

The development of the ALS industry will be accompanied by the active growth of the service segment. According to Skolkovo Ventures, the market for services provided with ALS amounted to approximately 22 billion rubles in 2022, by 2025 it can reach 50 billion rubles, and by 2030 - 120 billion rubles.

To streamline the structure of the new market segment under the auspices of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, a single register of manufacturers of unmanned aircraft and its components is being formed. In July 2024, the Russian government approved the rules for the formation and maintenance of a single register of domestic organizations engaged in the development and production of unmanned aircraft systems (ALS) and their components.

According to GTLK estimates, the active phase of the development of the unmanned aviation market in Russia will begin in 2024, and its formation will be completed by 2030. As a result, an independent branch of the economy should be formed in the next six years - the production and use of civilian UAVs. Private investment is expected to enter the industry. According to the estimates of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, by 2030 the volume of the Russian ALS market will amount to 180 thousand devices, while the share of Russian equipment will reach 70%.

2Alignment of civil ALS market participants in Russia: key trends

The formation of a new segment of the economy is accompanied by active processes of the emergence of new participants in the civilian UAV market. In 2022, according to GTLK estimates, there were several more than 70 ALS developers and manufacturers in Russia (including developments for defense industry enterprises). In 2023, as follows from the data of the study of the Aeronext Association, more than 160 business entities operated in the field of unmanned aviation, including developers, manufacturers and operators, scientific and educational organizations of various scales.

Today, according to TAdviser estimates, at least 70 companies engaged in the design, production and supply of ready-made UAVs designed for use in various areas of the civil market operate on the Russian market (excluding companies specializing in the development and production of UAV components and electronic units providing UAV-based services, including educational ones). This group includes, in particular, companies producing UAVs for specific orders (custom small-scale production), and having their own pilot production for testing working prototypes of aircraft. Among them, the presence of young players who entered the market in 2017-2018. and even in 2023-2024, including SMEs, which offer the market separate ready-made drone models or even entire families. What trends in the field of civilian UAVs lead to such results of current development?

Technological incentives:

• Application of advanced scientific developments in the field of aerohydrodynamic schemes in commercial models of ALS.

For example, the company "Aerocso" is developing a new generation of unmanned aircraft systems (ALS) based on the concept of a tilt-rotor tilt plane developed by the co-founder of the company: Eldar Razroev four propeller-engine groups instead of the standard two, a controlled landing in case of failure of one, electric motors, instead of an automatic skew - control of the thrust vector. Aeroco tiltrotors combine the advantages of high speed and range of the aircraft with vertical take-off and landing of the helicopter, can operate in severe weather conditions, can be equipped with hybrid power plants. Aerocso has established small-scale production of the latest ALS.

SKB "Gironavtika" builds its aircraft - gyrolets (gyrostabilized aircraft with inertial vertical take-off and non-motor inertial landing) - on the basis of its own patented iVTOL technology, which implements the idea of ​ ​ the carrier rotor "Air Wheel" (VK).

A thin closed wing, stretched by centrifugal forces, is the main bearing element of a small profile resistance. VC blades in horizontal flight - control elements. The implemented optimal "screw + wing" complex provides maximum efficiency in helicopter mode, as well as in autorotation and wind turbine modes, while steadily parachuting.

Aerob 4D UAV of Aerob is a flying wing design with vertical keels at the tips of the planes and a pushing propeller. The use of a progressive aerodynamic scheme and special algorithms of the UAV control system makes it possible to achieve high stability of the flight in horizontal - up to 1 degree in roll and pitch by 90% of the working trajectory.

• The development of UAV platforms with interchangeable loads, which allows you to quickly reorient the device to new tasks. Support for several replaceable loads simultaneously (for example, in a special compartment) with the ability to change them in hot-swap mode.

For example, Aerob aircraft-type UAVs A2V Aerob have a pipe-shaped body, inside which there is an electric motor with power elements and a payload on a retractable platform. This design provides a quick load change and power cell replacement.

• Modular drone design based on a universal platform, providing quick deep customization of the product to customer requirements.

Thus, the products produced by the company "Flying Machines of Thuring" - UAVs of an aircraft type with vertical take-off and landing - are based on a scalable, configurable and easily modernized octocopter platform. Platform aviation buildings of their own design made of carbon fiber with interchangeable cargo compartments of different volumes allow you to transport goods of different specifics and different volumes, as well as place a wide range of attachments on it. Power system - integrated (generator with internal combustion engine, hydrogen system).

The Robolet company creates industrial drones for vertical take-off and landing of the family of the same name based on its own modular aircraft platform. The basis of the flight module is the variable pitch screw. Robolets are capable of carrying up to 150 kg of payload at a cruising speed of 100 km/h, performing missions in remote regions, difficult weather conditions (strong winds, Arctic and marine conditions), in dangerous environments for humans. Over 11 years, the company has become a manufacturer of innovative ALS, starting the market as a project of the technological integrator INGINITI, specializing in composites. And the parent company has transformed into a business integrator managing the development of high-tech products as part of the full cycle of its creation - before serial production, including the selection of materials and technologies, imitation modeling, development of design documentation, organization of production, selection of specialists, equipment, organization of production and assembly.

Specialized drones of the Transport of the Future company are easily created on the basis of a universal modular S-120/S-270 platform. So, a four-beam drone is S-120 designed to transport goods weighing up to 50 kg. It can be increased to 200 kg, if additional rays are added, then a typical cargo container and winch can be used. If you add additional beams and nozzles, gets another platform - S-270. In addition to transporting goods, it can be used for chemical processing of fields.

S-700 is another modular platform "Transport of the Future," made according to the multicopter scheme and equipped with 16 rotary motor groups. In the Aerotaxi version, it can be used for rescue and evacuation activities. In the Cargo version, the S-700 is capable of transporting up to 200 kg of payload even to hard-to-reach regions of the country.

• Import substitution trend - development and implementation of domestic payload products, UAV components, electronic units, ECB.

UAV "Courier-30 Company" Cleverkopter became the first unmanned aviation system in the class from 4 to 30 kg, included in the register of Russian products. In September 2024, he participated in testing aerology solutions in large cities (Nizhny Novgorod and). Samara Drones were required to overcome a path with a length of 5.5 to 17 km along two routes in both cities at an altitude of 150-220 meters. All participants in the test flights have successfully passed the tests.

Agrodron S-60 Optima of Transport of the Future from Togliatti is the first Russian agricultural drone assembled from domestic components. These drones are part of the fleet of the national operator ALS.

An inspector drone of oil and gas pipelines equipped with a gas analyzer, an infrared camera and fuel leak detection software. Instead of an internal combustion engine, the drone uses fuel cells of its own production, which ensures the possibility of autonomous flight for more than three hours.

• Creation of domestic engines and power supply systems for UAVs, including hybrid power plants (generator based on ICE plus battery).

• Creation of new types of fuel cells. For example, at the end of 2023, at the training ground of the Federal Research Center for Problems of Chemical Physics and Medical Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Chernogolovka, a multirotor aircraft with an energy source based on hydrogen fuel cells, created jointly with the youth laboratory of promising power of the Institute of Electric Propulsion MIPT (Dolgoprudny), was tested. Compact but energy-intensive fuel cells based on hydrogen and oxygen have been created, which allow the drone to stay in the air for 2.5 hours (at a speed of 50 km per hour and a payload of 2 kg).

• Create payload products that adapt to harsh climatic conditions of use (Arctic, Antarctic, etc.).

• Ensuring the operation of the drone in conditions of communication interference and in the absence of signals from global satellite navigation systems (GNSS - GLONASS, GPS, etc.).

For example, in the fall of 2024, tests of the Intelligent Drone technology created by the Astron Design Bureau were similar: it assumes that in the absence of a GNSS signal, the flight route and return of the drone are based on optical recognition of terrain images.

TOPODRONE, which specializes in the production of specialized high-precision geodetic drones (based on its own cameras) with laser scanners based on its own sensor, equips them with its own image processing software that allows you to analyze multispectral data with an extremely high resolution (2-3 cm XYZ without reference points). This method provides a huge amount of information in addition to the traditional NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) method, which forms a normalized relative vegetation index when analyzing images of agricultural crops. The highly accurate TOPODRONE solution can be used not only in the field, but also in urban areas and even indoors, where GNSS signals do not penetrate.

• Development of UAVs as a digital data collection and processing platform, including high-performance data processing on board.

A small company from Samara COPTER.SPACE produces a universal multi-purpose quadrocopter Altpil, designed to solve problems in the field of hyperspectral shooting, organization of air logistics and remote monitoring. It is essentially a "flying laboratory": a module system allows for a custom research or engineering set that includes a COSPA hyperspectral camera. It is also possible to install a single board computer with a machine vision module compatible with a quadrocoter and a transportation box.

UAVs of the young company "Flying Machines of Thuring" justify their name: the drone control software uses its own development - the adaptation of algorithms for extended Kalman filters for synergistic data integration with more than 20 heterogeneous sensors. This is how the basic technology for ensuring the reliability of positioning, orientation and control in difficult environmental conditions is implemented. A similar approach - the integration of conflicting requirements and technologies (aerodynamics, power electrical engineering, cybernetics, control, communication) - is used to solve the problems of optimal aerology of volumetric loads.

Tsuru Robotics, which positions itself as an R&D bureau specializing in custom development of full-cycle development in the field of robotic systems and unmanned aerial vehicles, considers UAVs as a robotic system. Moreover, the company independently develops most of the used: electronic engineers flight controllers, local navigation systems, radio modems, engine controllers and power management systems, which allows you to design unique complex systems, regardless of popular approaches on the market. For example, small Nanopix design drones are designed to teach and entertain children of primary school age (7-10 years old). Guys can reassemble drones, program, refine, and control them using a mobile application. Together with Interactive Lab, Tsuru Robotics experts created the first automated drone show in Russia, and in partnership with the Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art, they released the world's first automated graffiti drone.

• Implementation of intelligent IT at various levels of UAVs: from device control to processing of data coming from UAV sensors.

The company "Laboratory of the Future" has created a unique drone "Tightrope Walker": he knows how to sit on power line wires, move along them, perform diagnostics, maintenance and local repairs, and at the same time recharge from them. The Kanatokhod complex is part of the air fleet of BAS, the national operator of the unmanned civil aviation industry.

• The development of new drone control technologies, including distributed control of a swarm of drones with target setting at the level of a separate device.

Scientists at South Ural State University have developed a new UAV control system that uses structural elements such as wingtips and wing wings that stabilize the spatial position of the aircraft, as well as a specially trained neural network. It automatically decides how to act in a particular situation in the air, adjusting the angles of direction of the flap or underwing, and also independently selects the optimal trajectories for lifting and landing an object on the ground, taking into account current weather conditions, the speed of movement of the device, based on the criterion of the minimum fuel consumption or energy consumption of the drone.

The Cheska company produces quadcopters of the CELERI family for various purposes, as well as the adaptive software and hardware complex of the same name for controlling a group of drones. The software controls the operation of the CELERI swarm, a group of drones combined into a single decentralized communication network to jointly solve problems. It provides resource allocation, group analysis and Master/Slave selection, task distribution in the group when receiving a mission, complete interchangeability of devices in the group and automatic replenishment or reduction of the group, variability of scenarios when setting tasks, continuity of work when replacing the main power element. Improvement of UAV launch systems.

The Atri company, the manufacturer of the Dandelion family UAV, also produces the Ampel transport and launch complex, which not only performs the functions of a traditional transport and launch container, but also expands the capabilities of the UAV. Ampel is a special container that includes a landing place for UAVs, heating means and a built-in charging station. In this case, the drone can function in long-term duty mode, periodically take off on command, perform a patrol or reconnaissance mission, then return to the container and connect to the charger.

Droneshub Group launched in September 2024 the country's first production of docking stations for drones and delivery robots. The docking station consists of two parts: the upper is designed for landing drones, the lower is designed for parking wheeled rovers. After the unmanned aerial vehicle delivers the cargo to the docking station, the rover picks it up and sends it to the final recipient. It can move along the route in automatic mode or under the control of a remote operator.

• Development of UAV broadband communication systems with the control center, including the transmission of "heavy" data in real time.

Active developments in the field of improving UAV communication systems are in line with the creation of dual-use systems. The goal is, firstly, to increase the protection of the communication channel from interference. So, in November 2024, it became known about the successful use of the latest Grasshopper communication system, designed for FPV drones and other unmanned platforms in the Kursk region. The Grasshopper, developed by the Gagaring Electronics Laboratory, is a compact module that can be installed on all types of unmanned vehicles where FPV technologies are used - copters, aircraft UAVs, robotic systems and driverless boats (BACK). Unique software allows UAVs to use non-standard frequencies, switch standard frequencies at a certain frequency, and also protect the communication channel with encryption. Thus, it is not possible to drown out communication with traditional solutions.

Secondly, the ability to quickly deploy communication in areas where it is absent using UAVs. For example, in 2023, the joint development of the Tomsk company STK (Systems. Technologies. Communications ") and Tomsk State University of Control and Radio Electronics Systems (TUSUR) - a fast-rolling communication complex based on drones. UAVs can rise to a height of up to 150 m to relay LTE signals, modern digital radio communications and for video surveillance purposes. The development has a civilian purpose - it is focused on the domestic oil and gas industry, as well as other industries located in hard-to-reach areas or dangerous for people. The autonomous communication complex is also capable of performing the function of a backup communication channel during periods of repair or construction work. Since we are talking about a modern UAV, it is assumed that the drone will be equipped, in addition to telecommunication equipment, with additional types of payload, for example, a video surveillance module. UAVs made in the format of hexacopters are able to raise up to 10 kg of payload, work in rain, heat and frost, maintaining communication for three to four days using a 33 kW diesel generator. The only limitation today is the wind load, it should not exceed 12 m/s to support high-quality communication.

In August 2024, a large-scale experiment on drone control through a space satellite was successfully held in Russia at the Fluffy airfield on Sakhalin. The organizers of the pilot launch of the new technology are JSC "Satellite system" Gonets " (part of the state corporation Roskosmos"") and the manufacturer of the UAV, the company Geoscan"," which provided the UAV "Geoscan 201," equipped with an experimental onboard modem "Gonets" and a satellite antenna. During the experiment, the task was to establish communication between the drone and the satellite, transmit telemetry data from the drone to the Gonets-M spacecraft, and send a command from the Geoskan spacecraft ground control station to the UAV via satellite. All assigned tasks, including the command to forcibly return the UAV to the launch site, were completed successfully. In parallel, joint studies of the Gonets system are underway with ANO SPC Wings of Sakhalin, which is a center for tests and competencies in the development of unmanned aircraft systems and means of protection against their illegal use.

Another experiment was carried out in the spring of 2024 by the Russian companies Sitronics Group, Ptero and Aeromax. The experiment involved small spacecraft of the Sitronics Group, which were supposed to provide a wireless communication line for the Ptero and Aeromax drones with a long range. In other words, it was necessary to test the technology of piloting drones through a satellite channel, which ensures the operation of the communication system beyond the radio visibility horizon. This technology will radically increase the flight range of UAVs. During the experiment, the drone flew more than 100 km from the control center, but operators were able to receive data monitoring its movement. The new technology will make it possible to track the location of drones weighing less than 30 kg.

Business incentives:

• Development of the service sector based on UAVs in the interests of the state (civil state order) with the participation of large and medium-sized businesses.

• Development of partner business chains research - development - production - sales - implementation in the interests of accelerated commercialization of domestic innovative UAV developments.

An interesting example of tripartite cooperation, in which a small young innovative company "Ecolibri," a resident of the Ryazan Aerospace Valley, and a large system integrator "T1" participate. The Ecolibri portfolio includes two UAV models:

  • R-75 is a cargo drone of vertical take-off and landing of a unique design that combines the capabilities of an aircraft and a helicopter: four propellers allow vertical take-off, and the front propeller provides horizontal flight, which makes it effective for long-haul flights. It is capable of carrying cargo weighing up to 25 kg over a distance of up to 750 km in extreme climatic conditions.
  • Ecolibri eVTOL is a modular multifunctional hybrid. This electric aircraft with the ability of vertical take-off and landing and a high degree of automation is positioned as a passenger VTOL-apparatus capable of lifting up to 500 kg of cargo (4-5 people). The Ecolibri eVTOL has the highest range of VTOLs. Ecolibri eVTOL claims to be one of the first production passenger VTOL devices in Russia.

Both models use in power plants an electric motor of their own design, superior in a number of parameters to foreign analogues. IT holding "T1" launched in 2023 its own project to create ALS production in the capital's industrial park "Rudnevo," where, among other things, mass production of the UAV "Ecolibri" will be established. In September 2024, the Federal Air Transport Agency began certification of the R-75 as part of a set of ALS certification measures included in the state civil order.

At the same time, "T1" and "Ecolibri" began to develop the direction of operation of ALS on the territory of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug. It is planned that the Empaero company owned by 100% of Ecolibri JSC, registered in Naryan-Mar, will provide aerology and SPDM services (data collection and transmission, monitoring) in the region using ALS, both Ecolibri and T1.

Another indicative example: the Laboratory of the Future company in 2023 launched together with the Ural Polytechnic College on the territory of the Universitetskiy Technopark in Yekaterinburg, the Drone Factory, a center for educational and technological cooperation that combines the resources of production companies and educational institutions with the aim of producing high-tech products. It is assumed that the Drone Factory project will become the core of the development of the UAV industry in the Urals.

• Partnership development in the use of domestic UAV components, which stimulates the commercialization of the "historically established" direction of scientific and technical development of enterprises.

Together, all these trends lead to the fact that young companies appear on the market, which are usually created on the basis of unique scientific and technical groundwork, including university developments, and quickly go to real implementations, without stopping at the prototype stage.

In a sense, this state can be called a "startup boom," but in the best sense of the phrase "garage cooperative," associated with Hewlett Packard or Microsoft. For example, this is what the founders of the small company AeroLaboratory, created in 2012, say about themselves. Today the company is engaged in the development and production of UAVs, the development of payload, ground control station, and also conducts research in the field of organizing automatic flights without using GNSS.

Source: GTLK, 2022

The small enterprise "Flying Trucks," created in 2024, not only speaks of the production of cargo UAVs of vertical take-off and landing of heavy lifting capacity WingedBull, focused on working in hard-to-reach areas in difficult weather conditions: from -55 ° C to + 45 ° C, but also announces plans to create the world's first unmanned cargo logistics company serving customers around the world.

And a resident of the Ugra High-Tech Technopark, the small company Yuvl Robotics, created in 2018 and became a member of Skolkovo in the same year, has already entered the world market: UVL Robotics was the first in the world to offer a service for conducting warehouse inventories using drones, becoming a pilot provider of robotic solutions in the field of logistics. The service is provided on the basis of an autonomous drone with an RFID reader with replaceable antennas on board, a gyro-stabilized frame, a hydrogen-air fuel cell energy system that consumes hydrogen gas, and software for autonomous navigation, warehouse topology formation and data integration into the customer's accounting system.

The company's focus on the international market affects the organizational structure: the headquarters is located in Abu Dhabi (OAU), the R&D division - in Moscow, Khanty-Mansiysk and Muscat (Sultanate of Oman), sales offices - in Russia, UAE, USA, Turkey. But all production of UVL Scanmaster components is localized in Russia, with the exception of electronics (according to 2022).

3Top-20 of the most mature Russian manufacturers of civilian UAVs

Of all the participants in the rapidly developing market of Russian civilian UAVs, TAdviser selected the most notable players offering their own ALS models of various types and purposes, ready to solve specific industry problems (geodetic work, smart agriculture, logistics and cargo delivery, monitoring the state of power lines, oil and gas pipelines, construction, etc.) and having proven experience in using their equipment for various business tasks of Russian companies.

Selection in the Top 20 was carried out exclusively on the basis of publicly available information.

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