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Modovolo

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Modovolo is a US drone maker in Upstate New York building payload-centric, field-repairable hex/octo-rotor UAVs and its own BFP aerospace 3D printer.

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Modovolo is a drone design and manufacturing company based in Upstate New York, United States, organized around what it calls "payload-centric" aircraft design: rather than building a generic airframe and adding a camera or cargo box afterward, the company designs the aircraft structure around the specific payload it needs to carry. Its unmanned aircraft are built in hexacopter and octocopter rotor configurations, using direct-drive propulsion and modular, field-repairable components that the company says can be swapped or fixed in the field in minutes rather than requiring a return to a repair shop. The airframes follow a "light-as-air" build philosophy and are produced in part using 3D-printed components through an internal, vertically integrated production process that covers design, fabrication, testing, and deployment. Modovolo's payload lineup includes universal carriers in small, medium, and large sizes, insulated canisters for temperature-sensitive medical cargo, winch systems for precision lowering of equipment or supplies, crop-pollination modules for agricultural use, communications-relay payloads, camera and sensor mounts, and emergency LED signaling units. The company also offers a Factory-as-a-Service program, a custom payload engineering and integration service for organizations that need a purpose-built module attached to a Modovolo airframe rather than an off-the-shelf option. This combination of hardware and payload-integration services lets the company serve customers across defense, medical and logistics delivery, and agriculture, where mission requirements such as carrying a specific sensor, a medical sample, or a pollination mechanism drive aircraft design more than generic flight specifications do. In addition to complete drone systems, Modovolo manufactures and sells the BFP, described as an aerospace-oriented 3D printer used both internally for its own airframe production and as a standalone product. In mid-2026 the company announced it was upgrading the BFP with graphene-enhanced filament supplied by Lyten, aimed at improving mechanical and thermal properties of printed aerospace parts. This places Modovolo at the intersection of unmanned aircraft manufacturing and additive manufacturing equipment, rather than being purely a drone airframe vendor. The company maintains an active presence on Twitter/X, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube under the ModovoloUAV handle family, and publishes an industry newsletter. Its general contact point is [email protected]. Specific founding year, headquarters street address, and employee count were not published in the sources reviewed and are left unconfirmed here rather than estimated.

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Modovolo Lift

Modular quadcopter with 3D-printed truss frame and swappable payload pods, built for defense, public safety, and research missions.

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Contact Modovolo

WEBSITE

https://www.modovolo.com/

EMAIL

[email protected]

HEADQUARTERS

Utica , New York  13501

United States

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North America

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