# Dronehub

> Dronehub is a US-owned, Poland-built autonomous-drone infrastructure company founded by Vadym Melnyk. Its core proposition is not another aircraft but the ground and software layer that keeps aircraft useful: weatherproof docking, robotic battery exchange, mission control, and AI-assisted analysis for repeated inspection, security, logistics, and defense work. The company sells systems, licenses intellectual property to OEMs and integrators, and co-develops mission-specific platforms through commercial and publicly funded R&D programs.

- **Founded:** 2015
- **Headquarters:** Research Triangle, North Carolina, United States
- **Founders:** Vadym Melnyk (Founder & CEO)
- **Team size:** Approximately 7 employees in the supplied company record; LinkedIn publicly lists the 11-50 size band.
- **Products:** Drone-in-a-Box Monitoring Hub, Sentinel AI, UAV Nomad, Cargo / Delivery Hub, HUUVER
- **Notable:** Ranked No. 220 overall and No. 2 in Aerospace & Defense in the 2023 FT 1000 Europe ranking, based on 2018-2021 revenue growth., Selected as one of five GENIUS NY 2022 finalists and received a $500,000 investment., Coordinated the seven-partner, five-country HUUVER consortium.

## Products & services

- **Drone-in-a-Box Monitoring Hub** — A weatherproof stationary dock integrating autonomous launch and recovery, environmental control, and robotic battery exchange for recurring inspection and security missions.
- **Sentinel AI** — Dronehub's in-house anomaly-detection and reporting layer for turning captured imagery into prioritized findings; public performance figures are tied to specific company-described deployments.
- **UAV Nomad** — A mobile drone-in-a-box concept developed through a roughly $1.72 million Polish R&D program, designed to dock and exchange batteries on a static or moving host platform.
- **Cargo / Delivery Hub** — A docking configuration for autonomous pickup and delivery of packages, medical cargo, and other time-sensitive payloads.
- **HUUVER** — A hybrid UAV-UGV research platform that flies and drives, developed by a seven-partner European consortium coordinated by Dronehub and incorporating Galileo navigation authentication.
- **IP licensing and R&D partnerships** — Licensing of docking, battery-swap, autonomy, and analytics know-how, plus co-development for commercial operators, systems integrators, defense primes, and public programs.

## Achievements

- Ranked No. 220 overall and No. 2 in Aerospace & Defense in the 2023 FT 1000 Europe ranking, based on 2018-2021 revenue growth.
- Selected as one of five GENIUS NY 2022 finalists and received a $500,000 investment.
- Coordinated the seven-partner, five-country HUUVER consortium.
- Participated in the Honeywell-led U-Space4UAM program under EU Horizon 2020 / SESAR.
- Built an autonomous battery-exchange system with a claimed swap time of roughly two minutes.
- Expanded from Poland into a US corporate presence after the GENIUS NY program.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Dronehub's website positioned the company around licensable autonomous infrastructure, R&D partnerships, US federal-program eligibility, and European manufacturing.
- **2026-05** — The company published updated technical and procurement material for Drone-in-a-Box, UAV Nomad, HUUVER, and the Sentinel AI stack.
- **2024-08** — Vadym Melnyk described the company's demo crash, OEM pivot, and software-heavy direction in a PARP interview.
- **2024-01** — Dronehub announced AI-powered anomaly-detection work for a major European railway, later identified in company materials as Deutsche Bahn.
- **2023-03** — Dronehub appeared at No. 220 in the FT 1000 Europe ranking and No. 2 in its Aerospace & Defense category.
- **2022-11** — Dronehub received $500,000 and operational support through GENIUS NY and deepened its US expansion.

## Links

- Website: https://dronehub.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dronehubai/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dronehub2103
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DronehubGroup

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Last updated: 2026-08-20