Invictus Robotics unveils Aeras, a force-controlled aerial manipulation drone for industrial work
lukas_m_ziegler · x · 2026-11-13
Invictus Robotics has released Aeras, an industrial aerial manipulation robot aimed at the hardest part of drone work: actually touching things.
- The core challenge: any push or pull from an onboard robotic arm kicks reaction forces back into the airframe, shoving the drone off position. Keeping stable while the arm applies real force and torque is the whole problem.
- Aeras tracks a robotic arm along arbitrary 3D paths while staying stable in flight, with force- and torque-capable manipulation.
- Target use cases are industrial inspection and maintenance: pressing sensors to surfaces, contact measurements, turning valves — replacing humans in dangerous energy and oil & gas sites.
Poster Lukas Ziegler, who spent years deploying ground robots at such sites, calls this a category he finds especially interesting.
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