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Orb One is a concept we are building toward 2030 – a flying sphere with no exposed rotors and a soft, self-guided landing. It is not for sale yet. Reserve your spot to be among the first contacted when prototypes, pricing, and pre-orders are real – and to help shape what we build next.

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The road to 2030

Built in the open, milestone by milestone.

Where Orb One is today and what has to be proven before it ships. We'll keep this honest as it changes.

2026

Concept and industrial design

Orb One (BD-1) form language locked – seamless TrueShell, single EquatorSense band, hidden SeamRoute seams. Renders and ergonomics only; this is a concept, not a shipping product.

Complete
2027

Propulsion bench proving

Validating whether fully internal fans channeled through hairline seams can lift and hold a 130 mm sphere. Honestly the hardest open problem – thrust, efficiency, and acoustics under active test.

In progress now
2028

Autonomy and SoftSet prototype

Tethered and caged flight rigs to prove EquatorSense avoidance and SoftSet soft-landing behavior. Flight time and payload still below target and being characterized.

Planned
2029

Sealed unit and closed beta

First fully enclosed, collision-resistant units with OTA firmware in a small real-world beta. Refining battery, capture quality, and wind tolerance against the targets above.

Planned
2030

Orb One launch

Targeted consumer release of the BD-1 if the propulsion and flight-time targets hold. Specs here are 2030 design targets, not guarantees – we will publish what actually ships.

Planned
Questions

The honest answers.

It does not yet – this is a concept we are targeting for 2030. We are proving out the SeamRoute propulsion and the SoftSet landing behavior now, and we will share honest milestones as we go. Reserve a spot and we will tell you the moment a real ship date exists, rather than promising one we cannot keep.
We have not set a price, and we will not guess at one just to sound impressive. Orb One is aimed at the premium consumer-hardware tier – think high-end audio, not a toy or a tactical tool. Reserve your spot and you will be among the first to see real pricing the moment it is set.
Honestly, it is a concept. The design, the sphere form, and the hidden-propulsion architecture are real engineering goals we are actively working toward for 2030 – not science fiction, and not shipping today. We would rather show you a grounded concept and our progress than fake a product that is not finished.
That is the whole point of the design. TrueShell is meant to be a seamless, collision-resistant body with no exposed propellers and no rotor cage – nothing sticking out to catch a finger, a wall, or a pet. SoftSet is designed to decelerate, find a clear spot, and set it down gently, or let it roll to a rest in your hand. It is collision-resistant by design, not crash-proof, and final safety figures will be published as testing matures.
EquatorSense is designed to give Orb One all-around awareness from a single camera-and-sensor band so it can avoid obstacles and land itself – not so it can watch you. It is meant as a friendly personal object, never a surveillance tool. As we build, we will be plain about exactly what it senses, what it records, and what stays on the device.
Nothing. Reserving is completely free – no payment, no card, no obligation to ever buy. You are claiming an early place in line and opting in to honest updates. You can leave the list at any time, and we never sell your information.
That is a direction we are exploring – an API and SDK so developers could build their own flights, behaviors, and integrations on top of Orb One. It is not finalized yet. Reserve with Developer / API access as your interest and we will loop you into early developer details first.
Because exposed propellers are the part of a drone people fear and break. A sealed sphere is designed to route all the airflow internally through SeamRoute, so the surface reads as one calm, closed object you can actually hold – collision-resistant, seamless, and built to land soft instead of crash hard.
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