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Parrot ANAFI Ai vs Teal Black Widow in 2026

Comparing 2 humanoid robots across availability, pricing, capabilities, and verified deployments. Current as of 2026.

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Parrot ANAFI AiView full model page →
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Teal Black WidowView full model page →
ManufacturerParrotRed Cat Holdings
Form factoraerialaerial
Maturityproductionproduction
Autonomy——
Availabilityshipping-nowshippinginternal-onlyenterprise
Price$4,000-$4,500 (actual sale price)Not announced
Capability claims——
Brain——
Verified deployments1Global1Salt Lake City
Privacy practices10training-data-use, on-device-processing, location-tracking, biometric-storage, location-tracking, biometric-storage, training-data-use, on-device-processing, cloud-upload, bystander-recording—
Sources on file79

Editorial summaries

Parrot ANAFI Ai

Parrot's ANAFI Ai is a 4G-connected professional micro-UAV quadcopter (launched June 2021), marketed as the first 4G-connected robotic UAV, with the Air SDK for onboard autonomous-mission code. It is a professional/commercial drone from the European (French) maker rather than a defense system. Its autonomy is operator-deployed: the Air SDK lets developers run autonomous-mission code onboard, but the aircraft is flown and tasked by an operator, not fully autonomous. DEPLOY records no reviewed consumer price on file; it is at production maturity.

Teal Black Widow

The Teal Black Widow is a soldier-borne ISR rucksack quadcopter from Teal Drones, a subsidiary of Red Cat Holdings (NASDAQ: RCAT). It is a hand-launched, foldable Group-1 quadcopter for single-operator short-range reconnaissance, carrying a Teledyne FLIR Hadron 640R+ EO/IR payload, an AES-256 frequency-hopping radio, and a Qualcomm RB5 AI-capable compute module running FLIR's Prism AI stack, with about 45 minutes of endurance and roughly five miles of link range. It is military procurement, not a consumer product, so there is no consumer price. Several aggregator framings are corrected here. The product is the Teal Black Widow, not 'Teal 2'. Its load-bearing fact is verified: the Black Widow won the US Army Short Range Reconnaissance (SRR) Program of Record in a production selection announced November 19, 2024, displacing the incumbent Skydio. But the scope is cap-flagged: the actual low-rate initial production contract is about $12.9M per a US Army FOIA disclosure, not the larger management-framing figures, and the often-cited 5,880-systems number is the Army's stated five-year objective (explicitly subject to change), not an obligated quantity. The common 'Black Hornet alternative' framing is also incorrect: the Black Widow is a different and larger class than Teledyne FLIR's roughly 70-gram Black Hornet nano-UAV, and it replaced Skydio on the platoon-level SRR program rather than the Black Hornet. On autonomy, it is primarily a manually piloted ISR drone with assistive autonomy (forward obstacle avoidance, FLIR Prism, a radio-off stealth mode), so any 'autonomous drone' characterization is an overclaim. The registry records it at low-rate production maturity; Red Cat is a cash-burning small-cap reliant on dilutive financing.

Common questions

What is the difference between Parrot ANAFI Ai and Teal Black Widow?
Parrot ANAFI Ai and Teal Black Widow are both aerial robots on the DEPLOY registry. They differ in maker, maturity, price, verified deployments, and how much of their autonomy is independently verified. See the table above for the full head-to-head; each figure is sourced.
Which has more verified deployments, Parrot ANAFI Ai or Teal Black Widow?
Parrot ANAFI Ai and Teal Black Widow each have 1 verified deployment on the DEPLOY registry (confirmed at named sites with primary sources).

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