Flyby Robotics

Matching the performance of DJI products is hard to do. But we did it. US-made @FlybyRobotics F-11 flight time exceeds DJI Matrice 350 at all payload weights.

🇺🇸 Earlier this month Los Angeles based Flyby Robotics (@FlybyRobotics) announced shipment of F-11 programmable UAS. "So far, we’ve shipped to Palantir, European defense primes, cutting-edge startups, and major universities. We’ve landed our first 7-figure contract with USAF, and 7X’ed YoY booked revenue since last year." - Jason H. Lu, Founder CEO Powered by NVIDIA GPU, the American made UAS platform with NDAA compliant components lets operators and developers run large on-edge AI applications seamlessly. Learn more >> tinyurl.com/nrs99z7z

Hello world! @FlybyRobotics has shipped our first run of F-11 programmable flying AI robots. Dual @nvidia Orin NX capable for 300 TOPS compute. 2TB SSD. 1 hour flight time. 5.7lb payload capacity. EW-resistant mesh radio capable. Zero CCP components. Made in Los Angeles.

These are the droids you’re looking for

Minimal presence. Maximum impact.

10/10/25

Nvidia DeepStream + YOLO + H265 through RTSP

End customers want indestructible drone bodies We got u Tooled with @atomic_inc proudly made in Michigan USA

It took ludicrous amount of work, but our doodle lab RF streaming on high res payload is now finally look proud. Doodle labs is stupid hard to get it to work well on a system, but if you keep on throwing yourself on a wall, you can get good results.

if you’re used to DJI consumer drones the significance of this might be lost this level of telemetry / bandwidth in contested environments is unbelievably good great job guys!!

working from home (remotely flying drone over icelandic volcano)

@DisruptionHedge @CatOrman1 Thanks, Stephen!

Great to meet @CatOrman1 in SF “the 21st century way of war is discovered on the battlefield, not in pitch decks.” Building the DJI of America! Long @FlybyRobotics

selfie sunday @FlybyRobotics

@apartovi @JHL_Express Thanks for coming! 🚀🚀🚀

I loved meeting @FlybyRobotics CEO Jason Lu (@JHL_Express). Thank you for taking me out for a Saturday morning drone flight!

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words in @palladiummag this morning on naval battles, exploding shell guns and what the first “modern” war has to teach us about the importance of early adoption give it a read :)

My conversation with Cat Orman (@CatOrman1) co-founder of Flyby Robotics Flyby is building a versatile machine-learning drone platform used across consumer, industrial, and military applications. It's here on X and also on YouTube and Spotify. Links in the comment. Enjoy! Timestamps: 0:29 Why DJI Dominated The Drone Market 2:36 How Cat & Jason Met 3:33 Why They Started Flyby 6:04 Advantages Of Having A Co-Founder 7:28 Twitter & The Palantir Partnership 8:57 Why Cat Decided To Become A Founder 12:44 Lifeguarding A Crossing In Lesbos 14:24 Building A Hardware Moat 15:40 Drone Startups 17:45 Challenges Of Building Hardware 20:34 Customer Ride-Along Story

Check out more details here! flybyrobotics.com/posts/building…

Here’s a quick thread on philosophical design differences between @FlybyRobotics and DJI.  We’ve designed the F-11 to be an actual open platform for machine learning at the edge. Here's how we're building this: