Product profile
M12
M12 is ABZ Innovation's compact payload drone for R&D, training and experimental applications. It supports up to 12 kg payloads, open-source ArduPilot soft...
Facts
- Company
- ABZ Innovation
- Product type
- uav
- Status
- commercial
- Primary capability
- generalist
- Website
- https://abzinnovation.com/products/abz-innovation-m12/
About M12
M12 is a configurable multirotor development platform rated for payloads up to 12 kilograms. Its folding airframe exposes power, communication and mounting interfaces for custom sensors, manipulators and experimental equipment, allowing universities, integrators and industrial teams to build specialised aerial systems without designing the base aircraft.
Dual RTK receivers provide positioning to approximately ten centimetres, while the ArduPilot-based flight stack gives developers access to mission logic and onboard integration. Flight duration varies from roughly 15 to 50 minutes according to payload and battery configuration. ABZ processes mission data locally, allowing the aircraft to complete missions without a continuous connection to a manufacturer-controlled cloud.
Market context
Multifunctional UAV, multifunctional_uav, drone, drone
Summary
Type: UAV platform
Core: Open-source flight
Function: R&D flight
Audience: Researchers
Specifications
- aircraft_weight
- 13.8 kg total weight with battery
- certification
- CE-certified, C4 label
- flight
- 15–50 min; 120 m max altitude; up to 20 m/s
- flight_time_minutes
- 15-50 minutes depending on payload weight min
- io_and_power
- I2C, UART, CAN, USB, PWM, relays; 0–50V configurable
- max_operating_altitude
- 120 m max flight altitude
- mtow
- 24.9 kg max takeoff mass
- navigation
- Dual-RTK ±10 cm; ~3.5 km range
- operational_role
- Agricultural drone platform for modular field applications
- payload_bay
- Up to 12 kg; 600×600×600 mm bay
- payload_capacity_kg
- Up to 12 kg payload capacity kg
- software_and_frame
- Open-source; foldable; CE C4
- speed_range
- 20 m/s max level speed m/s
- task_scope
- Agricultural UAV platform operations
- weight_range
- 13.8 kg with battery; 29 kg MTOM kg
Operations
- Environment
- outdoor_structured
- Primary user
- enterprise_operator, field_technician
- Role
- data_capture
- Interaction model
- human_in_the_loop, supervised_autonomy
- Mobility class
- aerial_multirotor
- Product detail
- Multifunctional UAV, multifunctional_uav, drone, drone
Research, Articles and recent verified events
- ABZ Innovation L50 wins the FRUIT LOGISTICA Innovation Award 2026 in Technology — 2026-02-09
- ABZ Innovation C10 wins a special prize at AGROmashEXPO 2026 — 2026-02-06
- ABZ Innovation secures a €7M strategic investment round — 2026-01-22
- ABZ Innovation C10 receives EU C5 certification — 2025-12-09
- ABZ Innovation drones become officially Remote ID compliant in the United States — 2025-11-24
- ABZ Innovation debuts the L50 at Agritechnica 2025 — 2025-11-19
- ABZ Innovation demonstrates L30 V2 and C10 systems in Cyprus — 2025-05-21
- Drone Nerds and ABZ Innovation partner to bring ABZ agricultural drones to the U.S. market — 2025-01-22