Robot model
Elios 3
Collision-tolerant indoor inspection drone with protective carbon fiber cage.
- Manufacturer
- Flyability
- Form factor
- aerial
- Maturity
- commercial
- Lifecycle
- active
- Deployments
- 2
- Website
- flyability.com ↗
The verified answer
As of Sep 2026, DEPLOY verifies Elios 3, a aerial by Flyability (commercial): 2 verified deployments on record. 2 sources back the record.
Appears inInspection & survey drones
Overview
Collision-tolerant indoor inspection drone with protective carbon fiber cage. LiDAR mapping and 4K camera for confined space inspection in industrial facilities.
Verified vs. claimed
- Maturity stage
- commercial(Commercially deployed with revenue-generating operations.)
- Sources on file
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Key facts
Product
Funding
Category
Data & sources
Web sources
2
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Availability and pricing
- Availability
- Not disclosed
- Price
- $30K to $50K (analyst estimate)as of 2025-01-01
- Units in field
- Not disclosed
- Sales model
- Not disclosed
- Lead time
- Not disclosed
Pricing
One-time purchase
$30,000 - $50,000 USDanalyst estimateas of 2025-01-01
Price status: actual-sale-price = real published price at time of sale; manufacturer-target = vendor target, not yet realized; analyst-estimate = third-party projection, not a vendor figure; not-announced = no price on record.
Prices verified as of Jan 1, 2025
Deployments (2)
- Elios 3 at Global (multiple sites)operational
Flyability Elios 3 drones deployed globally for confined space inspection in mining, power generation, and maritime industries.
- Elios 3 at Lausanneoperational
Elios 3 collision-tolerant drones deployed for boiler, stack, and confined space inspection at European power generation facilities.
Elios 3 on the deployment map
View the global mapWhere Elios 3 is verified operating. Explore the deployment map by place and type.
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Verified media addedVerifiedJun 11, 2026
Flyability Elios 3 - Everything You Need To Know
- Verified media addedVerifiedJun 11, 2026
Flyability Elios 3 - Digitizing the inaccessible
- Record createdJun 7, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Price point recorded: $30,000-$50,000Jan 1, 2025
Analyst estimate
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJun 1, 2024
at Lausanne
Supply chain (1)
Sensors
- OusterOuster OS0-32 Rev 6.2 LiDAR sensor (standard configuration, launched May 2022) -- primary 3D mapping and navigation sensor for the Elios 3 confined-space inspection drone; enables real-time 3D model creation via Flyability's FlyAware SLAM engine with accuracy to +/-2cm even in dark, dusty and reflective environments; the Elios 3 Surveying Payload (announced October 2023) upgrades to the Ouster OS0-128 Rev 7 for centimeter-accurate survey-grade point clouds; both configurations source their LiDAR from Oustersupplies
Suppliers appear here when verified with at least two strong sources (maker-official / IR / regulatory / standards-body / verified tier-2). Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history.
Safety record
No incidents on record for Elios 3.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Sources (2)
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Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-07-12
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-07-12
Maturity + lifecycle
Maturity stage: commercial
Lifecycle: active
Architectural position
Cohort: aerial
Sources by quality tier
- 2
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Elios 3.Recent coverage
Elios 3 in third-party press
Attention vs reality over time
Media mentions per month (area) against verified deployment events (dots). A press spike over a flat deployment line is the hype gap, drawn over time.
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Elios 3 from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /models/flyability-elios-3.md
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/models/737c07dc-2450-41f2-94e0-1d26b3a61391
- Revision history: /models/flyability-elios-3/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Video
Reality vs attention
Elios 3 draws attention at the 40th percentile but verifies reality at the 52nd percentile among aerial robots. Hype Gap -11.7, 82nd widest among aerial robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Thin deployment record; scale validation still in progress.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Sep 6, 2026