No more humans doing dangerous jobs.
Flyability is a Swiss company building safe drones for operating indoors, in complex and confined spaces, and in contact with people. By allowing drones to be used safely inside cities, inside buildings, and in contact with people, it enables new interactions and services with UAVs and solving the two most critical issues of one of the fastest-growing industries: collision and injury risks.
MISSION
Send robots instead of humans to gather data in dangerous and hard-to-reach industrial places. Build a rewarding human adventure, true to its values and sustainable
CERTIFICATION
Flyability is certified with ISO 9001. This ISO standard pertains to specified requirements for quality management systems and demonstrates that Flyability provides products meeting regulatory requirements.
TEAM
Flyability is a passionate team of roboticists from the best universities of the world and specialists in diverse fields such as composite materials, aerodynamics, building companies, and dealing with the fun of international shipping.
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FOUNDERS
FLYABILITY SA IS A SWISS COMPANY FOUNDED IN 2014 AND BASED IN LAUSANNE.
SPIN-OFF FROM THE ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE AND THE LABORATORY OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS, IT CURRENTLY EMPLOYS >100 FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES, DEDICATED TO TURNING DRONES INTO REAL PARTNERS FOR HUMANS.
DR. ADRIEN BRIOD
CO-FOUNDER AND CTO
After a MSc in robotics at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Harvard University, Adrien pursued a PhD at EPFL (Laboratory of Intelligent Systems) during which he developed and patented novel approaches for the stabilization of flying robots in cluttered environments. Through 6 years of research in the field, Adrien mastered all aspects of the flying robots technology including mechanical, electrical and software engineering.
PATRICK THÉVOZ
CO-FOUNDER AND CEO
Patrick is Co-founder and CEO of Flyability, the leading professional indoor drone company aiming at increasing efficiency and reducing risks for humans in industrial inspections. Under his tenure, Flyability grew from 2 to over 60 employees and acquired over 300 customers. Before founding Flyability, Patrick worked as a strategy consultant as a specialist in product launches for the life sciences industries. Patrick graduated from EPFL in Switzerland with an MSc in Engineering.
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OUR SUPPORTERS
FLYABILITY IS A SPIN-OFF FROM EPFL (ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE) AND WAS BORN AT THE LABORATORY OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS OF PROF. DARIO FLOREANO, AND SUPPORTED BY THE SWISS NATIONAL CENTER OF COMPETENCE IN ROBOTICS (NCCR ROBOTICS).
FLYABILITY IS PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY:
Companies in the energy, chemical, oil and gas, mining food and beverage, maritime and pharmaceuticals sectors are using its drones. Customers include Chevron, Con Edison, BP, Solvay, GE and SUEZ.
“When the time came, we flew into a Hi Rad (radiation) area and inspected a small leak saving 900mr of dose to a person who would have had to perform the work. The thermal and high-quality video was instrumental in determining the cause of the issue and the fix.”
"The past few years have seen a flurry of innovation in drones and their application across many different industries. Since standard outdoor drones suffer several technical constraints when flying indoor due to their reliance on GPS signal and vulnerability to impacts, Flyability designed Elios, which its innovators describe as the collision-tolerant drone.”
"For most drones, a tendency to crash into stationary objects would be seen as a design flaw -- for "Gimball," it's the secret of its success. Its creators -- Swiss company Flyability -- are traveling home from Dubai $1 million richer after winning the "Drones for Good" international competition, on February 7, 2015."
"A clever, bizarre-looking drone that may one day save your butt has won a million bucks in the UAE's Drones for Good competition."
"Last year, Lausanne, Switzerland-based startup Flyability partnered with the mountain rescue team at Zermatt Glacier in the Swiss Alps to offer them the services of Gimball, which is quite possibly the only robot that doesn’t care even a little bit whether you drop it into the bowels of a glacier."
"Protected by a free-spinning cage, the Gimball drone is designed to bounce off obstacles that it encounters in its flight path."
Flyability is a Swiss company building solutions for the inspection and exploration of indoor, inaccessible, and confined spaces. By allowing drones to be used safely inside buildings, it enables industrial companies and inspection professionals to reduce downtime, inspection costs, and risks to workers. With hundreds of customers in over 50 countries in Power Generation, Oil & Gas, Chemicals, Maritime, Infrastructures & Utilities, and Public Safety, Flyability has pioneered and continues to lead the innovation in the commercial indoor drone space.
HEADQUARTERS
FLYABILITY SA Route du Lac 3 1094 Paudex Switzerland
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Oil & Gas
Maritime
Power Generation
Chemicals
Mining
Sewers
Cement
Nuclear
Other industries
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