Products: Drone. Risk band: Elevated RobotRisk index 33.1/100 (incidents/exposure, time-weighted) · 99th percentile of 171 drones evtol companies.
DJI's record contains six entries spanning 2017 through 2026, producing an index of 30.9 and a 99.4th-percentile standing within drones-evtol, an elevated band. The entries divide into two distinct failure-mode clusters: three cyber/regulatory entries concerning data exposure and government market restrictions (a 2018 account vulnerability disclosure, a 2025 FCC Covered List addition barring new drone models, and 2026 cloud-authorization and bug-bounty disclosures affecting nearly 7,000 connected robot vacuums), and two injury/regulatory entries concerning physical operation, including a 2017 US Army fleet ban and a 2025 drone-strike injury to a child. The record is mixed regulatory- and press-driven, combining government restriction actions with vulnerability disclosures and one operational injury. The recurrence of cyber/data-exposure entries across multiple years, from 2018 through 2026, constitutes the dominant and repeating failure mode in this record, distinct from and more frequent than the physical-injury entries.