Four motors sized for endurance over top speed, with the headroom to carry a payload home against the wind.
Built to come home.
We’re exploring unmanned aircraft designed around the ground layer from day one: onboard edge perception, docking-ready hardware, and autonomy that knows when to come home and recharge.
Concept illustration · Not a production aircraft
01 Architecture
Designed around the landing.
Select a component to see the role it plays. Every choice starts with one question: can this aircraft land, charge, and fly again without a person on site?
Tap a component to highlight it on the drawing.
A forward camera that lets the aircraft see — feeding the same kind of vision stack our ground nodes run.
An embedded GPU module runs perception onboard, so the aircraft can react without a round trip to the cloud.
A dedicated autopilot keeps the aircraft stable and safe. Mission logic runs alongside it — never instead of it.
A smart pack that reports its own health, so the ground layer knows when to land it, charge it, or retire it.
Contacts built into the landing gear let the aircraft start charging the moment it settles onto a Lamassu pad.
A link back to the ground layer for telemetry, tasking, and handing a mission off between aircraft.
02 Missions
What we’re exploring it for.
The missions shaping the concept. All of them start and end on a pad — that’s the point.
Persistent patrol
Scheduled flights over a fixed site, launching from and returning to Lamassu pads.
Alert response
A charged aircraft that launches when a ground node raises an alert, to get eyes on the scene.
Inspection
Repeatable routes over infrastructure, capturing data the same way on every flight.
Coverage extension
Aircraft that fill the gaps where a fixed sensor mast can’t see.
03 Integration
One system. Three parts.
The aircraft is only half the story. It’s designed to work with the ground layer, so each part makes the others more useful.
- Ground sensors cue the aircraftA detection on the ground can task an aircraft to take a closer look.
- Pads keep it readyEvery landing is a charge, a health check, and a status update.
- Aircraft extend the ground layerMobile sensing fills in where fixed nodes can’t see.
04 Principles
How we think about autonomy.
Autonomy earns trust slowly. These are the rules we’re designing by from the start.
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Supervised autonomy
Software handles the routine. People stay in charge of the decisions that matter.
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Safety before scale
Geofences, health checks, and conservative fail-safes come before more flight hours.
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Built to land
Every design decision assumes the aircraft has to come home to a pad — every time.
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Observe, never engage
Our aircraft watch and report. They are not weapons platforms, and never will be.
05 Build with us
Design the aircraft with us.
We’re looking for airframe and autonomy partners, pilot sites with real missions, and engineers who want to build aircraft that come home on their own.