Nearing 3,000 schools. All 50 states. Elementary classrooms to the U.S. Naval Academy.
Learners fly a real drone, write real code, and learn skills the next decade demands. The work of the next decade runs on autonomy, code, and real-system thinking. Learners who learn this now are ready for it. The ones who don't, aren't.
Live from Hopper's downward camera. The main view is the drone's own feed; the inset is the flight in the room. A 10x10 space with 8.5 ft ceilings, tighter than a classroom.
FTW Robotics is the only US company offering a fully integrated drone-education pathway. Hardware, curriculum, teacher training, and the Build Fly Code Compete competition system from one vendor. Hopper is designed, manufactured, and serviced in the United States. NDAA Section 889 compliant. Zero foreign dependencies in hardware, firmware, curriculum, or platform.
Grace is FTW's expert assistant. She knows the whole platform: the Hopper drone, the full curriculum across Build Fly Code, Hopper Quest, Part 107, and Essentials, the competition system, and the shop. Ask her about products, purchasing, or how to plan a semester or a summer camp, and she advises you as the expert, where to start, what to run, and how to pace it. On the platform, where she knows your program, she goes deeper. A student-facing guide, one who leads learners to the answer instead of giving it, is in development.
Hardware, curriculum, teacher training, the Build Fly Code Compete competition system, and Grace, our AI companion. From one American company. One support relationship.
From upper-elementary classrooms to the U.S. Naval Academy. The same Hopper at every level. Same platform. Same Grace. Different content depth at each rung.
Domestically built. NDAA Section 889 compliant. No foreign dependencies in hardware, firmware, curriculum, or platform.
Perkins V eligible. Title IV-A eligible. Grant-research support included. Purchase orders accepted. Explore Grant Research
Teaching a class, homeschooling, or building a summer camp? Grace knows the FTW curriculum cold, every lesson across Build Fly Code, Hopper Quest, Part 107, and Essentials. Tell her your grade level, your schedule, and what you have, and she will advise you on where to start, what to run, and how to pace it across your weeks. Ask her anything. She is the expert, and she is right here. Free for Build Fly Code platform access holders and anyone considering joining.
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To everyone who owns a Hopper: thank you.
Some of you bought the very first Hopper in 2023. You believed before it was easy to, and we made you a promise, that it would get better, and better, and better.
We meant it every time we said we were close. We genuinely believed it, every time. The truth is it was harder than we imagined. Way, way harder. It took longer and cost more, in every sense, than we could have known. But we stood in it. For years. And then came the breakthrough.
Firmware 2.0 is here, and it is not a small step. It is a magnitude better, honestly a hundred times better than Hopper has ever flown. And every existing Hopper receives it, free, because that was always the promise.
We are proud of this one because we killed for it. And we couldn’t have done it without you. The early adopters gave us real feedback in real conditions, and that is exactly what now teaches an .ai platform that gets more intelligent with every flight, made smarter by the people in our network.
FTW is one of the few American drone companies that owns its entire telemetry and flight control stack. Wholly owned. Zero outside dependency. And it’s genuinely good. We have been teaching and learning on real systems, across the country, the whole way.
This July 4th, we shipped an American flight stack. And it’s actually good.