Ornadyne
We're building robot birds for surveillance.
About Ornadyne
Ornadyne builds flapping-wing drones for reconnaissance that look, fly, and sound like birds.
Today’s drones are easy to detect acoustically, visually, and electronically. As counter-UAS systems improve, traditional quadcopters and fixed-wing UAS systems are becoming increasingly ineffective for close-range surveillance.
Flapping-wing aircraft have existed for years, but have lacked the performance, endurance, and control required for real-world deployment. We’re changing that by engineering a high-performance, stealth-optimized system built from first principles for efficiency, autonomy, and reliable field use.
The final frontier of surveillance won’t look like machines; it will look like wildlife already in the sky.
Maybe birds aren't real?
Company details
Funding
Total raised
$500K
Last stage
Seed
Investors
Founders
Geourg Kivijian
Award-winning engineer (IEEE/AIAA) with 2+ years of flapping-wing robotics research (Master's thesis). Previously led coordination systems for Mars Sample Return at NASA JPL and worked on lunar rovers at Astrolab.
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Armen Arakelyan
Co-founder & CTO at Ornadyne, building autonomous flapping-wing aircraft. Previously a Starship components engineer at SpaceX. Before that, I led machining at USC Rocket Propulsion Laboratory at the University of Southern California, helping the team set the amateur rocketry altitude world record at 144 km.
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