Facts

• Segment: Inspection
• Country: Switzerland
• Founded: 2014
• Website: https://www.flyability.com

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Products
• Facts
• Funding
• Investors
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Operations / Deployments
• Supply chain relationships
• Relationships
• Sources

Summary

Flyability builds collision-tolerant indoor drones for inspection of confined and hazardous spaces. Its Elios drones let operators capture visual, thermal and mapping data inside tanks, boilers, mines, sewers and industrial assets without sending people into dangerous areas.

Market context

One of the clearest indoor inspection drone companies; Elios 3 combines protected indoor flight with onboard LiDAR mapping. Collision-tolerant indoor inspection drones and inspection-data software for confined-space visual inspection and LiDAR mapping in industrial assets.

Products

• Elios 3
• Inspector

Facts

• Website: https://www.flyability.com
• HQ: Lausanne, Switzerland
• Founded: 2014
• Segment: Inspection
• Known funding rounds: 1

Funding

• 2022-09-07 - Series C - $27M - Flyability raises CHF 22 million Series C for Elios 3 sensing and autonomy - source: flyability.com

Investors

• Cargill - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-09-07
• Dow - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-09-07
• ETF Partners - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-09-07
• Future Industry Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-09-07
• SBI Investment - Lead - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-09-07
• Swisscom - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-09-07
• Verve Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-09-07

Confined-space inspection drone workflow

Flyability specializes in collision-tolerant indoor drones for inspecting confined, hazardous and GPS-denied spaces. Its Elios line is built for remote visual inspection, 3D mapping and surveying in assets where sending people is costly, slow or dangerous.

• Target environment: Indoor, inaccessible or confined industrial environments such as tanks, boilers, tunnels, mines, sewers, ship holds, power-generation assets and infrastructure voids.
• Deployment model: Commercial inspection platform combining protected drone hardware, pilot workflow, sensor payloads, mapping software and reporting/cloud tools.
• Customer context: Inspection teams in power generation, oil and gas, chemicals, maritime, infrastructure, utilities and public safety that need to reduce confined-space entry.
• Workflow context: Teams fly inside assets, collect visual/LiDAR evidence, create inspection records and use the data to decide whether human entry, maintenance or repair work is needed.
• Commercial maturity: Commercially mature Swiss indoor-drone specialist with official materials citing hundreds of customers and use across more than 60 countries.
• Market position: Positioned as a leading indoor inspection drone company, differentiated by collision tolerance, confined-space flight and purpose-built inspection workflows rather than outdoor survey coverage.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on pilot training, confined-space RF/visibility limits, asset access, inspection standards, and whether collected data is accepted by site maintenance and safety teams.
• Adjacent context: Adjacent systems include cage-protected indoor drones, crawler inspection robots, remote visual inspection tools, LiDAR mapping systems and industrial inspection software.
• Source confidence: high

Events

• 2026-03-04 - Research Publication - Autonomous Aerial Non-Destructive Testing: Ultrasound Inspection with a Commercial Quadrotor in an Unstructured Environment - The work presents a control and software architecture for…
• 2026-02-26 - Product Launch - Flyability introduces Autonomous Repeat Flight for Elios 3 - Flyability introduced Autonomous Repeat Flight for Elios 3.
• 2025-09-15 - Product Launch - Flyability launches Elios 3 Tether Power Unit for extended industrial inspections - Flyability launched the Elios 3 Tether Power Unit for industrial drone inspections.
• 2025-06-01 - Product Launch - Flyability launches high-capacity batteries for Elios 3 inspection drone - Flyability launched high-capacity batteries for Elios 3 in June 2025.
• 2024-03-20 - Research Publication - Robotics meets Fluid Dynamics: A Characterization of the Induced Airflow below a Quadrotor as a Turbulent Jet - The widespread adoption of quadrotors for diverse applications, from ag…
• 2022-09-07 - Funding - Flyability raises CHF 22 million Series C for Elios 3 sensing and autonomy - Flyability raised an additional CHF 15 million on top of CHF 7 million previously closed, bringing the Series C round t…
• 2022-05-19 - Product Launch - Flyability launches Elios 3 indoor LiDAR inspection drone - Flyability launched Elios 3 as an indoor LiDAR drone for inaccessible and GPS-denied environments.

Operations / Deployments

• 2026-03-04 - Research Publication - Autonomous Aerial Non-Destructive Testing: Ultrasound Inspection with a Commercial Quadrotor in an Unstructured Environment - The work presents a control and software architecture for…
• 2025-06-01 - Product Launch - Flyability launches high-capacity batteries for Elios 3 inspection drone - Flyability launched high-capacity batteries for Elios 3 in June 2025.

Supply chain relationships

• Ouster - lidar_sensor_supplier - Flyability Elios 3 uses Ouster OS0 lidar sensors for indoor 3D mapping and inspection.

Relationships

• FARO Technologies - surveying payload partner - FARO Technologies and Flyability launched the Elios 3 Surveying Payload bundle using FARO Connect workflows.