Create a project
Each drone gets one project that holds its hardware and configuration.
Drone Platform · Development environment
One project for every part of your drone
Drone Platform keeps the flight controller, companion computer, AI models and configuration of each aerial or ground drone in one project. Your engineers spend their time on the product and much less on the tools around it.
The integration problem
Every new build pays the integration tax again
Each layer of a drone has its own tools, and engineering time goes into making them agree. Each new prototype rebuilds similar workflows from the start.
Drone Platform does not replace ArduPilot, Betaflight, PX4, ROS 2 or NVIDIA's tools. It works with the flight stacks and companions it supports, and keeps them in one project so configurations and workflows carry over between prototypes. If you also need an on-board AI computer, see onEDGE.
- Less integration work: flight controller, companion and configuration kept in step
- More reusable engineering: the next prototype starts from components you have already configured
- More focus on what differentiates you: mission capabilities, payloads, AI and product features
Studio
One environment to develop your drone system
Add components
Pick a flight controller, companion and sensors from the library.
Inspect each device
Identity, link and checks are shown per device.
Connect the parts
Draw the connections. Nothing is marked connected until the device answers.
Engineering evidence
What works today, and what is still planned
We count a feature as working only after a dated run on named hardware. The lists below keep those results apart from the roadmap.
Verified on hardware
- Flight controllersConnect to Betaflight flight controllers over USB and read their identity; ArduCopter 4.6.2 connection and identity on a reference board
- Companion computersConnect a Raspberry Pi 5 or NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano companion; reach the flight controller through the companion, read-only
- ModulesInstall, start and stop software modules on the reference companion
- AI modelsDeploy a CPU model to the Raspberry Pi 5 companion and read it back as sent
- CamerasDiscover UVC cameras through the companion
In development
- AI & autonomyOn-board inference, perception and decision logic
- Video & connectivityLive video, telemetry and radio, local networking
- Cloud & fleetFleet operations, software releases, flight data and media storage
- Developer toolsSDK and APIs across every platform area
- Companion hardwareA first-party companion computer alongside the reference boards
Each verification record covers one run on one board; it is not a claim of production readiness.
Development kits
Kits you can open, rewire and extend
Flight controller, companion, sensors and software stay separate and accessible, so each part can be inspected, replaced and tested without rebuilding the drone. The kits are in design.
Compact development kit
One known airframe for prototyping, teaching and research, meant to be opened, rewired and extended with your payloads and sensors.
Companion development kit
Room for a companion computer, cameras and heavier payloads, to take perception and on-board compute off the bench and into the air.
Fixed-wing development kit
For mapping, survey and inspection work on longer flights, and for teaching how fixed-wing control differs from a multirotor.
Who it is for
Built for teams that develop drones
- OEMs and engineering teams: an engineering pilot on your own flight controller and companion, with scope agreed before work begins
- Inspection, infrastructure, agriculture and research teams: missions built on shared flight, companion and model components
- Universities and labs: teaching how flight controllers, embedded software, sensors and AI work together on real hardware
From the blog
Further reading from our engineers
Next step
Building drones and tired of rebuilding the tooling?
Tell us your flight controller, companion computer and what you are building. We will show what the platform carries today and what a pilot would cover.