Product profile
M40
M40 is ABZ Innovation multifunctional heavy-payload drone platform for R-and-D, training and industrial applications. It supports payloads up to 40 kg, ope...
Facts
- Company
- ABZ Innovation
- Product type
- uav
- Status
- commercial
- Primary capability
- generalist
- Website
- https://abzinnovation.com/products/abz-innovation-m40/
About M40
M40 is a heavy-payload development multirotor with a maximum payload of 40 kilograms and maximum take-off weight around 75 kilograms. Its modular mechanical, electrical and communication interfaces accept industrial sensors, lifting equipment, spraying systems and experimental payloads selected for each mission.
Dual RTK positioning, open ArduPilot software and configurable I/O support autonomous routes and custom control functions. The folding platform reaches approximately 15 metres per second and can be adapted around research, training and industrial operations. ABZ supplies development documentation and integration support alongside the aircraft, placing M40 between a catalogue drone and a custom engineering platform.
Market context
Multifunctional UAV, multifunctional_uav, drone, drone
Summary
Type: Heavy-lift UAV
Core: 40kg payload
Function: Payload lift
Audience: Developers
Specifications
- aircraft_weight
- 25 kg total weight without batteries
- certification
- EU Declaration of Conformity linked from ABZ M40 product page
- communication_range
- Approximately 8 km effective RC signal range
- dimensions
- Unfolded 2435 x 2541 x 752 mm; folded 979 x 683 x 752 mm
- endurance_hours
- 22 min hovering (per ABZ)
- environment
- IP54
- flight_time_minutes
- 22 min hovering time min
- ip_rating
- IP54 protection
- lift
- 40 kg load capacity
- mtow
- 75 kg maximum takeoff weight
- operating_altitude
- 4500 m AMSL maximum flight altitude; 120 m AGL maximum flight altitude
- operational_role
- Agricultural drone platform for larger field applications
- payload_capacity_kg
- 40 kg load capacity kg
- software
- Open-source stack
- speed_range
- 15 m/s maximum level speed m/s
- task_scope
- Agricultural UAV platform operations
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