Robot maker · early
UP Caeli Via
UP Caeli Via designs and manufactures its own line of professional multirotor and fixed-wing UAS in Italy, with roughly 80% of the flight electronics produced in-house. Its ARGOS platform flies fully autonomous, pilot-free survey missions in GPS-denied, confined and underground environments using onboard LiDAR-SLAM for real-time 3D point-cloud capture. The company builds the airframe, avionics and integrates the mapping payload, making it the core autonomous-system builder rather than a service operator of third-party drones.
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ARGOS
- Autonomous flight in GPS-denied, confined and underground environments using onboard LiDAR-SLAM (no pilot)
Drone executes survey missions and captures georeferenced 3D point clouds autonomously without GNSS or a human pilot.
Claim source - 15 min flight time, 9100 g max takeoff weight, 2700 g payload, carbon-fiber frame with integrated propeller guards
Manufacturer-published performance and physical specifications for the ARGOS airframe.
Claim source - Integrates Exyn Technologies Nexys Pro LiDAR-SLAM payload (HESAI XT32M2X, 220 deg FOV, up to 1.9M points/sec, +/-1 cm accuracy)
Mapping sensor payload carried by ARGOS for colorized real-time 3D point clouds.
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D-SENTRY
- Surveillance / monitoring UAS in the UP Caeli Via product line
Security and monitoring drone model.
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FEBRUUS
- Cleaning drone (quadrotor) for building/facade cleaning
Purpose-built cleaning UAS in the UP Caeli Via product line.
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KUR-1000
- Professional multirotor for mapping, agricultural and delivery / cargo applications
Heavy-lift multirotor platform in the UP Caeli Via product line.
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KUR-500 V2
- Professional multirotor UAS presented at Dronitaly 2026
Multirotor survey/inspection platform in the UP Caeli Via product line.
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PALAEMON
- UAS configured for search-and-rescue / sea-rescue operations
Search-and-rescue drone model in the UP Caeli Via product line.
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