Contact charging
Conductive contacts on the landing gear meet charging plates on the pad.
- Strength
- Simple, efficient power transfer.
- Watch
- Needs precise landing and clean, protected contacts.
Keep them flying.
A landing pad that recharges drones without a person on site: guided landing, a hands-free connection, and a health check before every relaunch — so a fleet can stay in the air around the clock.
Concept illustration · Hardware in development
01 The cycle
Six steps. No hands.
This is the loop we’re designing the pad around — and what each step has to get right. Select a step to see it.
02 Approaches
Three ways to charge a drone. We’re testing them honestly.
Every approach trades something away. We’re weighing them against what matters for an unattended site: reliability, tolerance for landing error, weather, and cost.
Inductive charging
Coils in the pad transfer power across a small air gap — nothing exposed.
- Strength
- Sealed hardware that shrugs off weather.
- Watch
- Lower efficiency and added weight on the aircraft.
Battery swap
A mechanism trades the depleted pack for a fresh one between flights.
- Strength
- The fastest turnaround between missions.
- Watch
- Mechanical complexity and more parts to maintain.
03 Design goals
What the pad has to get right.
The targets we’re designing against. None of them are solved yet — that’s the work.
Land precisely
Guide aircraft onto the pad reliably, even with wind and imperfect GPS.
Connect hands-free
Seat and charge without plugs, people, or manual alignment.
Charge safely
Monitor current, voltage, and temperature on every single cycle.
Know battery health
Track every pack over time and retire tired batteries before they fail.
Live outdoors
Designed from day one with weather, dust, and debris in mind.
Schedule the fleet
Decide which drone flies, charges, or waits — automatically.
04 Vision
Every pad is a sensor node.
The same mast that holds a charging pad can hold a camera. We’re designing toward one integrated ground node that keeps a site’s drones charged while it watches the sky around them.
See detection & tracking05 Build with us
Help us build the pad.
We’re looking for hardware partners, pilot sites, and engineers in power electronics and robotics to take autonomous charging from concept to the field.