Drone Development Kits

Accelerate Your Autonomous Drone Development

ModalAI accelerates autonomy development by offering development kits for sUAS, drones and robots leveraging autonomous computer vision, flight control and communications systems. These flight controllers, drones, and companion computers are built in the USA. 

Want to build a VIO drone? Check out our blog post here.

Best-in-Class Development Tools

ModalAI's VOXL platform advances Qualcomm Flight, combining ROS, TensorFlow and PX4 with Obstacle Avoidance and GPS-Denied indoor navigation, in a ready to use package to add autonomy to your drone.

Ready to Fly Development Drones

ModalAI offers multiple, ready-to-fly development drones. It is assembled in the USA. Each drone is manually calibrated and flight tested for VIO-based GPS-denied navigation and Obstacle Avoidance before shipping. You can fly this indoors under the power of computer vision, or outdoors with GPS. The stereo cameras in front enable obstacle avoidance. 

VOXL Supports Multiple Radios

• WiFi is built in for easy debugging
• An add-on for 4G/LTE enables cloud connectivity and BVLOS over cellular
• An add-on for Microhard enables long-range, peer to peer communications

Compare VOXL Products

VOXL 2 From $1199.99	VOXL From $479.00	VOXL Flight From $549.00	VOXL Flight Deck $899.00	VOXL m500 $1999.00	Sentinel VOXL 2 Development Drone $3599.99
Blue UAS Framework 2.0 Autopilot	PX4 Autonomous Companion Computer	Includes VOXL fused with Flight Core	Includes VOXL Flight and vibration-dampened mount	Includes VOXL Flight Deck and s500 frame, ESCs, motors and props	Includes VOXL 2 flight deck and s500 frame, ESCs, motors and props
16g 36 x 70 mm	18g 36 x 75mm	24g 36 x 117mm	72g 96 x 150 x 38 mm	1kg 480mm diag.	1kg 480mm diag.
QRB5165	Snapdragon 821	Snapdragon 821	Snapdragon 821	Snapdragon 821	QRB5165
6 MIPI CSI-2 Connections	3 MIPI CSI-2 Connections	3 MIPI CSI-2 Connections	3 MIPI CSI-2 Connections	3 MIPI CSI-2 Connections	6 MIPI CSI-2 Connections
8K30 RGB Rolling Shutter	4K RBG Rolling Shutter	4K RBG Rolling Shutter	FPV/Machine Learning Hi-Res Sensor	FPV/Machine Learning Hi-Res Sensor	FPV/Machine Learning Hi-Res Sensor
Stereo and ToF Sensors	Stereo and ToF Sensors	Stereo and ToF Sensors	Forward Facing 12 MP Hi-Res Sensor up to 4K30 video recording	Forward Facing 12 MP Hi-Res Sensor up to 4K30 video recording	High-resolution 4k30
Tracking VGA B&W global shutter image sensor	Tracking VGA B&W global shutter image sensor	Tracking VGA B&W global shutter image sensor	45° downward/ forward facing Tracking VGA global shutter image sensor for obstacle avoidance and GPS-denied navigation	45° downward/ forward facing Tracking VGA global shutter image sensor for obstacle avoidance and GPS-denied navigation	Tracking Sensor - Global Shutter VGA Front and Rear Stereo - Global Shutter VGA
5G, 4G/LTE, WiFi, Microhard, Doodle Labs Add-on	WiFi, LTE, Microhard	WiFi, LTE, Microhard	WiFi, LTE, Microhard	WiFi, LTE, Microhard	WiFi, 4G/LTE, 5G, Microhard, DoodleLabs add-on
Ubuntu 18.04	Linux Yocto Jethro	Linux Yocto Jethro	Linux Yocto Jethro	Linux Yocto Jethro	Ubuntu 18.04
Open Source Kernel	Open Source Kernel	Open Source Kernel	Open Source Kernel	Open Source Kernel	Open Source Kernel