Robot model
DE-2020
US-made autonomous hexacopter designed and manufactured by DEXA for last-mile delivery.
- Manufacturer
- DEXA
- Form factor
- aerial
- Maturity
- commercial
- Lifecycle
- active
- Deployments
- 2
- Website
- flydexa.com ↗
The verified answer
As of Sep 2026, DEPLOY verifies DE-2020, a aerial by DEXA (commercial): 2 verified deployments on record. 1 source back the record.
Appears inLogistics robots/Delivery drones
Overview
US-made autonomous hexacopter designed and manufactured by DEXA for last-mile delivery. S1-listed aircraft certified by the FAA, operated under Part 135 authority with national BVLOS waiver for beyond-visual-line-of-sight commercial flights.
Verified vs. claimed
- Maturity stage
- commercial(Commercially deployed with revenue-generating operations.)
- Sources on file
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Key facts
Manufacturer
Type
Maturity
Deployments
Data & sources
Web sources
1
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Pricing
No verified price is on record for DE-2020. Physical-AI systems are often sold through enterprise contracts or operated as a service rather than at a public list price.
Deployments (2)
Three-month drone food delivery test program with Grubhub and Wonder at Wonder's Green Brook, NJ location.
- DE-2020 at Daytonpilot
DEXA's first pilot program with Kroger, launched in 2021 in the Dayton area.
DE-2020 on the deployment map
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Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJul 23, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedMar 18, 2026
at Green Brook, New Jersey, USA
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJan 1, 2021
at Dayton
Safety record
No incidents on record for DE-2020.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Sources (1)
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Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-09
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-09
Maturity + lifecycle
Maturity stage: commercial
Lifecycle: active
Architectural position
Cohort: aerial
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for DE-2020.Recent coverage
DE-2020 in third-party press
Attention vs reality over time
Media mentions per month (area) against verified deployment events (dots). A press spike over a flat deployment line is the hype gap, drawn over time.
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning DE-2020 from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /models/de-2020.md
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/models/36a6f778-83e9-403b-941d-e966d5119219
- Revision history: /models/de-2020/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Reality vs attention
DE-2020 draws attention at the 3rd percentile but verifies reality at the 68th percentile among aerial robots. Hype Gap -65, 117th widest among aerial robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited independent press and video coverage to date.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Sep 6, 2026