We're back! 🚀 Aerial Robotics community group meetings return on May 28, 2026 • 5:00 PM (UTC). Topic: The Unified Autonomy Stack - Generalizable Autonomy across Robot Morphologies w/ Kostas Alexis and @MihirDharmadhi1 from @arlteam Don't miss it! 👉 discourse.openrobotics.org/t…

Congrats to the ROS 2 team on the Lyrical Luth release. 🥳 rosidl::Buffer brings zero-copy GPU data transfer to ROS 2. Built on NVIDIA NITROS from Isaac ROS and developed with the ROS community, it gives developers an accelerator-ready foundation for physical AI. Learn more 👇

A really fun chat with the founder of @Airbound_Aero Naman who refuses to change his x handle from @TheRealNamzoo 😅 but that debate on another day! Airbound is building world's most efficient aircrafts, and using them for consumer-grade drone deliveries. We go deep into > the underlying physics of drone delivery > the challenges - what needs to change in ground infra, do we expect millions of drones in the sky? The answer will shock you. > how to move atoms like we move bits > why did he start building drones at 14yo > starting airbound as a highschooler, raising his first money (500$), then raising again, then again & again, and again! > building a world class drone mfg, composites, technical & GTM team, and more! youtube.com/watch?v=SXEum86f…

If you're interested in #ROS and #UAVs do join!

hiring 2 full-stack interns (3 mo) @medsee_ai · ₹50k/mo · bangalore, in-person if you lean backend: you like architecting around text visual data at scale & building and orchestrating ai/ml pipelines if creativity drives you: you thrive around 2d/3d visual engines & workspaces, have an eye for clean notion/figma like ux dm with your favorite work - github / resume / coding agent session 🧵

When people who've built things at scale stop to take notice, it means something. Thank you @anandmahindra @kiranshaw @RonnieScrewvala the support means a lot.

We spent 54 days flying diagnostic samples between a clinic and a lab in Bengaluru for @NarayanaHealth 700 flights. Zero failures. The numbers are out. The world had something to say about it. Thank you to everyone who watched, shared, and reached out. We didn't expect this. The work continues. youtu.be/GGNYxDGiNv4 A trillion more to go.

Thank you @Airbound_Aero and @NarayanaHealth for ‘transporting’ us into the future. Faster diagnostics. Better outcomes. Lives protected At a time when drones elsewhere are, most visibly, carriers of destruction, it’s heartening to see them in India becoming instruments of care. Technology, ultimately, reflects the intent of those who deploy it. And this is intent we can be proud of.

Just blows my 🤯 that in the last few weeks @Airbound_Aero has delivered 700 samples for @NarayanaHealth, one of India's largest hospital networks. ETA down from 1.5hrs to <4mins. Zero crashes. Revolutionary. The asymptote to 1M deliveries has started.

Beat the traffic, Bengaluru - your healthcare is ready for an uplift. Kudos to @NarayanaHealth and @Airbound_Aero Aero for turning innovation into meaningful action. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/…

This news feels mundane or boring even. But its far from it - but only if you dig a little deeper. The name of the startup that you don't see in the headlines is @Airbound_Aero. And they are solving a huge problem. Imagine setting up a fancy diagnostics center with all the expensive equipment but only serving a fraction of the population. That's exactly what happens with most of them There are like 6,000-7,000 diagnostic centers in a city like Bengaluru alone. But most of them only handle like 50-100 tests per day. That's highly inefficient. And then, there is traffic. Even to get the samples to the right lab just a few kilometers away takes a few hours. Every second wasted counts - when its about someone's health. This is exactly where Airbound comes in. They aren't just a fancy drone startup - they are making diagnostics more accessible, cheaper and faster. When you start using drones for collecting blood samples - distance doesn't matter. You can collect samples from remote areas and transfer it to centralised labs within minutes. And that's the biggest play here - you don't need thousands of labs any more - you just need a few hundred. Now, that a few of these labs are handling more tests - economies of scale kicks in and those machines aren't being wasted gathering dust. And tests become cheaper for everyone. And if you are thinking drone deliveries are expensive - that's actually not true. Airbound has already reached a stage where it costs them Rs 24 per delivery and they are expecting to get to below Rs 5 by the end of 2026. And if you are thinking all of this sounds like a distant dream. Well, Zipline is already doing that successfully in Rwanda. Airbound has already completed 700 flights in 54 consecutive days. And honestly, I believe this is just the beginning.

Nicely done 🇮🇳 INDIA ROBOTICS in Singapore🇸🇬. Also a reminder to ALL Indian startups -- the US 🇺🇸 is NOT your default launch market. I first heard of Genrobotics (@GenRobotic) via the Kerala Startup Mission a few years ago but never ended up connecting. Seeing this now genuinely makes me smile. Such companies just stay underground (Pun intended) They’ve stayed focused on building a solid product in a niche space. No noise, no hype, just execution. Bandicoot robots going into sewers and manholes, taking on the dull, dirty and dangerous work. This is EXACTLY what robots should be doing. They’ve raised just $6M from @Zoho , @anandmahindra , @unicornindia Ventures, Sea Fund and others, and now gone on to win a Singapore government contract after outperforming 600 global competitors. These guys went where the problem existed, built for it, and won. This is how you build. Read more here: tinyurl.com/3pbjk4kr

Amazing to see. An Indian startup @Airbound_Aero from Bengaluru, calling themselves the "most audacious hardware company" is doing this:

#WATCH | In a peak Bengaluru moment, we now have diagnostic samples being delivered via drones! Narayana Health teams up with drone start-up Airbound to transfer blood samples from hospitals to laboratories Dr Devi Shetty, Chairman, Narayana Health and Naman Pushp, founder, Airbound join in a conversation on how this partnership will shape the future of medical logistics - listen in Catch the full interaction: youtu.be/zb54EEjpl9w?si=52h4… @JudeSannith24 @Airbound_Aero @TheRealNamzoo

Super bullish on Indian hardware startups. My flex is I know all these founders, and we are a gang.

Two years ago at #rosconindia2023 🤖🤩 #foss #ros @OpenRoboticsOrg @rigbetellabs @artparkindia

Interested parties DM me. Seriously. Bengaluru Basement Bot Battle, HSR, 2026 Humanoids welcome too. We can do one championship for quadrupeds, another for bipedals. Also, anyone have a basement we can use?

Bengaluru is poised to become the global epicentre for aerospace innovation. @AsperaAero with autonomous seaplanes. @Airbound_Aero with SOTA delivery drones. @arctusaerospace with $1 Earth observation UAVs. And now @AlteonEnergy with 1 YEAR CONTINUOUS FLIGHT TIME. WHAT?!

The Wright Brothers gave humanity flight, Alteon exists to give humanity (almost) perpetual flight. Alteon Energy builds the world’s highest endurance airplanes – ones that can fly for ~417 days at a time without landing. Today, I’m excited to share with the world our first step towards this vision – the Infinidrone 🧵