DropFly Robotics · Non-Dilutive Raise · 30 Days

The safety standard for physical AI doesn't exist yet. We're building it.

Robots are moving into homes, warehouses, and streets faster than anyone can independently verify they belong there. DropFly Robotics is building the trust layer that checks — before deployment, not after.

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Non-dilutive · Closes Aug 26, 2026

Why This Matters

Capital is flooding into what robots can do. Almost none of it is going into proving they're safe to do it.

Every new humanoid, every new warehouse fleet, every new home robot raises the same question nobody funds an answer to.

The last two years have poured enormous investment into robot capability — foundation models, actuators, sensors, humanoid platforms. What hasn't kept pace is independent verification: a credible, third-party check on whether a given robot system is actually safe and authorized to operate around people, in the physical world, before it ships.

Labs and manufacturers grading their own robots is a structural conflict of interest, not a safety process. DropFly Robotics exists to be the independent layer — the entity that evaluates, tests, and gates physical AI systems on behalf of everyone who has to trust them: operators, regulators, insurers, and the public sharing space with them.

Our goal is straightforward and long-term: to become the standard that physical AI and robotics companies point to when they need to prove a system is safe to deploy.

What We're Building

Three layers of an independent safety practice.

High-level, on purpose — the detailed methodology stays inside the lab until it's been tested.

Independent Safety Evaluation

Rigorous, third-party assessment of robot systems — run by a team with no stake in the result looking good.

Authorization & Compliance

A verification layer that checks a robot's actions are sanctioned and accountable, with a clear audit trail.

Real-World Testing

Scenario-based evaluation that goes beyond clean lab conditions to surface failure modes before the world does.

Who We Are

Two founders who think somebody independent should be checking this.

A new division of DropFly Inc., built by its two co-founders.

Erik Scott

Co-Founder & CEO

The company, the partnerships, and the case for an independent standard.

Rio Allen

Co-Founder & CTO

Engineering — the evaluation systems, the test rigs, and the software behind them.

Two founders, a garage, and a gap the industry hasn't closed yet. We need your help to bring this vision to life.

The Raise

$25,000. 30 days. Zero equity given up.

This is not a lab fund, and we're not going to pretend it is. A small flex unit in Los Angeles runs $2,500–3,000 a month before buildout, so twelve months of rent alone would consume this entire raise and then some. We haven't earned a lease yet.

What $25,000 does buy is a rig that can evaluate the models labs are actually shipping, not toy ones: a 96GB-VRAM workstation, a proper leader/follower arm pair for recording real human demonstrations, and the sensors to capture every trial. That still runs in a garage. It's enough to produce independent evaluation results nobody else is producing — which is what makes a real lab fundable later.

It's a donation to the mission, not an investment: no equity changes hands, and there's no cap table implication for backers. We're keeping it non-dilutive on purpose — the trust we're asking companies and regulators to place in DropFly Robotics starts with being straightforward about what this raise is and isn't.

Non-Dilutive

Donation-Based

Closes Aug 26, 2026

Compute workstation

A 96GB-VRAM build — enough unified memory to load and evaluate the vision-language-action models labs are actually shipping, instead of only the small ones that fit on a consumer card

~$16,000

Robot arm + teleoperation rig

A leader/follower arm pair with real repeatability, so we can record human demonstrations and replay them against a policy under test

~$4,500

Sensors, mounts, bench & safety

Multi-angle cameras to record every trial, a rigid bench to mount the arm, and the guarding to run it safely around people

~$2,000

Processing fees & sales tax

Card processing and California sales tax on the hardware — counted here rather than quietly eating into the build

~$2,500

Total goal

$25,000

No salaries, no rent, no software. Every dollar is hardware that outlives the raise.

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Anonymous by design — amounts and timing only. We never publish who backed us.

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