Posted Jul 8, 2026 at 12:11 PM UTCAYoutubeDJI now offers an emergency parachute for its powerful Matrice 400 drone.The 935-gram DJI AP100 can safely bring the pricey drone (and whatever payload it’s carrying) to the ground at a descent rate of less than 5 meters per second. The chute features its own redundant power and communications and can be deployed manually or automatically in an emergency, like when the drone leaves a predefined geocaging boundary.Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.Andrew Liszewski
DJI now offers an emergency parachute for its powerful Matrice 400 drone.
The 935-gram DJI AP100 can safely bring the pricey drone (and whatever payload it’s carrying) to the ground at a descent rate of less than 5 meters per second. The chute features its own redundant power and communications and can be deployed manually or automatically in an emergency, like when the drone leaves a predefined geocaging boundary. [Media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-IcSjMAauo]
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