ANAFI Work

The Parrot ANAFI Work (and its family variants — ANAFI USA, ANAFI Ai, ANAFI UKR) is a sub-1 kg foldable quadrotor micro-UAV platform developed by Parrot, a European drone manufacturer. It is designed for professional ISR, photogrammetry, public safety, and defense applications, featuring up to 70 minutes flight time (XLR battery), 35x hybrid zoom, combined RGB/thermal imaging, onboard AI, and GNSS-denied optical navigation. The platform supports autonomous waypoint flight plans, AI subject tracking, obstacle avoidance, and (in defense variants) autonomous interceptor evasion — but independent community evidence documents meaningful reliability issues including mid-flight disconnects, flyaways, gimbal failures, and autonomous flight reconnection failures. Research sources confirm the default PID controller has agility limitations and that out-of-the-box autonomous capability requires third-party frameworks (ROS, MPC) to extend meaningfully. The system is best characterized as Supervised-Autonomous: it executes tasks (ISR, photogrammetry, waypoint missions) without a human driving the aircraft, but active human oversight is standard practice given documented reliability concerns and the nature of its operational use cases.