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Aerial Avionics is the next step in drone autopilot technology, unlocking the potential of UAS. Unmanned aerial systems have demonstrated transformative potential across critical domains, including emergency response, defense, logistics, and surveillance. Yet despite rapid adoption, the underlying technology has struggled to meet the growing demands for autonomy, reliability, and scalability in real-world environments. Aerial Avionics is focused on closing this gap. The main building blocks need a serious upgrade, and we are here to design the hardware and software stack for a drone that addresses today's problems and unlocks UAV potential tomorrow. The bottleneck starts with a component integral to the onboard avionics: the flight controller. We are evolving the flight controller with modern hardware and software to advance machine learning and GNC (Guidance, Navigation, and Control) at the edge. 

This evolution is the Icarus board. The Icarus board is a flight controller and flight computer all in one, eliminating the need for pesky connections between multiple computing units. It can take sensor input, analyze it, generate an avoidance plan, and update the existing flight plan all within a single component. The Icarus board serves as the main avionics hub for the drone and will include a platform that enables users to load their own complex functions and AI capabilities. In the engineering world, one mistake can lead to a catastrophic crash. UAV teams are continually crashing their drones because they lack the components to handle everything behind the scenes reliably. Icarus is here to fix that problem.