Elios 3 — Flyability Product Profile

Elios 3 product profile

Elios 3 is Flyability indoor inspection drone for confined and hazardous spaces. It combines a collision-tolerant cage, computer vision and LiDAR mapping to collect inspection data inside industrial assets.

Facts

Company: Flyability
Product type: Drone
Status: launched
Website: https://www.flyability.com/elios-3

Profile sections

Summary
Overview
Market context
Audience
Workflow
Capability
Deployment environment
Positioning tags
Specifications
Tags
Timeline / Research
Sources

Summary

Overview

Market context

Elios 3 is Flyability’s indoor inspection drone for mapping and visual inspection inside confined, hard-to-access industrial assets.

Target environment: Tanks, mines, sewers, power-generation assets, chemical plants, maritime spaces and other confined or GPS-denied industrial environments.
Workflow context: Captures visual, thermal and LiDAR-backed inspection data, then ties findings to a 3D map through Flyability’s software workflow.
Customer context: Asset owners, inspection service providers, mining operators, energy companies, utilities and industrial maintenance teams.
Deployment model: Commercial indoor drone system with companion cockpit and Inspector software plus optional payloads.
Commercial maturity: Commercial product with public documentation and named payload ecosystem.
Adoption constraints: Flight time varies by payload and indoor inspection quality still depends on operator procedure, lighting, access and post-processing.
Market position: Leading confined-space inspection drone category reference with collision-tolerant hardware and SLAM-based mapping.
Adjacent products: Dronut DD1, Emesent Hovermap, Skydio X10

Audience

Inspectors

Workflow

Captures visual, thermal and LiDAR-backed inspection data, then ties findings to a 3D map through Flyability’s software workflow.

Capability

Lidar Mapping, GPS-denied operation

Deployment environment

Tanks, mines, sewers, power-generation assets, chemical plants, maritime spaces and other confined or GPS-denied industrial environments.

Positioning tags

Audience: Inspectors
Workflow: Captures visual, thermal and LiDAR-backed inspection data, then ties findings to a 3D map through Flyability’s software workflow.
Capability: Lidar Mapping, GPS-denied operation
Deployment environment: Tanks, mines, sewers, power-generation assets, chemical plants, maritime spaces and other confined or GPS-denied industrial environments.

Specifications

Embedded LIDAR: Onboard LiDAR creates real-time high-density point cloud maps
Max Flight Time: up to 12.5 min without payload; 9.1 min with LiDAR payload; 8.2 min max load
Lighting: 16K lumen dust-proof lighting on close-up inspection payload
Payload Bay: Two-port modular payload bay, one dedicated to LiDAR and one for auxiliary payloads
Environmental Protection: IP44 design target according to Flyability; not certified IP44

Timeline / Research

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.
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.

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