BulbulDrone Delivery

Southern California · Autonomous medical logistics

Delivering life-saving care in minutes, not hours

Autonomous drone logistics for hospitals, clinics, and emergency response teams — past every red light, over every traffic jam.

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Why Bulbul exists

Minutes a blood sample waits in traffic

That delay isn't an inconvenience — it's a diagnostic failure. Critical specimens degrade. Diagnoses are delayed. Patients wait. Bulbul was built to eliminate that 33 minutes entirely.

Solutions

Built for healthcare's most critical moments

Laboratory professional holding a rack of blood sample vials beside a centrifuge
5–12 min

Blood & specimens

Clinic-to-hospital lab runs with cold-chain integrity and precision winch drop — no ground traffic, no couriers, no delays.

Nurse moving through a community hospital hallway
Under 8 min

Kits, AEDs & medications

Defibrillators, trauma kits, and emergency medications on scene before ground EMS arrives. Every second matters in cardiac arrest.

Golden-hour view of a winding road through dry hills in inland Southern California
From $25/run

Rural reach & resupply

Last-mile prescriptions and scheduled micro-deliveries for FQHCs and rural clinics — reaching patients who can't reach pharmacies.

The bigger picture

The future of logistics
isn't built on roads.

It's built in the skies.

— Bulbul

Technology

Meet Velos

A tilt-motor VTOL — fixed-wing range, helicopter precision. Designed, engineered, and built in-house, flown by an autonomy stack built to run fleets, not just one aircraft.

Velos — Bulbul's tilt-motor VTOL — during flight testing, seen from above
Velos · Bulbul's in-house tilt-motor VTOL · actual flight-test frame
120 kmProduction range Targeted
25 kgMax payload Targeted
VTOLAutonomous transition Demonstrated
BVLOSBeyond visual line of sight

Intelligence behind every autonomous flight

One system, three layers

Every mission runs the same closed loop — a cloud brain plans it, edge AI flies it, and the flight controller executes it. Commands flow down; telemetry flows back up in real time.

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ADFP™ — Cloud PlatformThe cloud brain — plans missions, manages fleets, and monitors everything in real time.
Cloud Connected
Mission GenerationRoute OptimizationCompliance CheckTelemetry MonitorPost-Mission Report
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AeroCore™ — Onboard IntelligenceInstalled on the aircraft — receives cloud instructions, processes at the edge, and commands the flight controller.
Edge AI · Onboard
Instruction ParseEdge AI ProcessingSensor FusionCommand OutputTelemetry Broadcast
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Flight Controller — Hardware ExecutionTranslates commands into motor signals, servo actuation, and physical flight.
Hardware
Command ReceiveMotor ControlServo ActuationIMU StabilizationWinch / Payload
BVLOS Ready Edge AI Onboard ADS-B & Remote ID WebRTC Streaming

The mission loop

Eight phases, every flight

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Mission Brief
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Route Plan
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Compliance
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AC Processing
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Sensor Fusion
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Flight Execute
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Telemetry
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Report

Routes in five seconds

AeroCore™ plans the optimal flight path in under five seconds — weather, airspace, and mission priority, solved before the rotors spin up.

CLINIC LAB WX TFC NO-FLY PLANNING…

No landing zone

The patent-filed winch lowers each package from a stable hover. No runway, no helipad, no ground crew — just a drop point the size of a parking space.

DROP ZONE HOVER

One platform, every fleet

ADFP™ coordinates multi-vendor fleets under a single command — the autonomy layer for medical logistics, not just our own aircraft.

ADFP HUB MULTI-VENDOR · ONE COMMAND
FAA Part 135 UN3373 handling 2°C cold chain HL7 FHIR integration BVLOS
Explore the aircraft · live 3Dauto-orbit

The platform, live

Every mission, accounted for

Dispatch to chain-of-custody in one auditable stream — built like an airline, not a gadget. That aviation-grade discipline is Bulbul's real moat.

adfp · live mission log
[07:31:02] ORDER rcv — Menifee Clinic → Inland Valley MC
[07:31:04] ROUTE planned in 3.8s — wind 9kt, airspace clear
[07:32:41] LAUNCH — BLB-07 airborne, payload 1.2kg @ 2°C
[07:42:11] WINCH drop zone acquired — lowering
[07:42:58] DELIVERED ✓ chain-of-custody confirmed
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Proof & progress

Where we are

Demonstrated
  • Tilt-motor VTOL prototype built and flown (2024)
  • VTOL → fixed-wing transition tested
  • Payload drop trials completed
  • 3 patents filed — ADFP™ & AeroCore™
In progress
  • FAA Part 135 pathway for BVLOS carriage
  • Pilot planning with UHS Southern California
  • Menifee PD drone-first-responder work
Targeted
  • 5–15 min facility-to-facility service
  • Production aircraft: 25 kg · 120 km
  • Riverside County network — 223 facilities

Company · Leadership

The people behind the mission

A proven operator who has moved goods and built healthcare infrastructure across two continents, paired with an aerospace engineer-inventor who designs the aircraft and the autonomy that flies it.

CEO · Founder

Mohammed Elyas

Serial entrepreneur & investor · 20+ years, two continents

From Baghdad to California, Mohammed has spent two decades building and scaling real businesses — a multi-shareholder contracting firm running projects worth $55M+, cross-border transport logistics and supply-chain operations, healthcare infrastructure including a hospital MRI project, and a portfolio of consumer brands. He founded Bulbul on one conviction: autonomous technology can change how critical care reaches the people who need it most.

$55M+ contractingLogistics & supply chainHealthcare infrastructure17 brands launchedBaghdad → Irvine, CA
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CTO · Co-Founder · Inventor

Ankur Verma

Aerospace engineer · National Awardee · IEEE Member

Ankur is the technical architect behind everything that flies. Aerospace-engineering degree (UPES, First Class) and flight-mechanics training at IIT Kanpur — real flight-parameter work on Piper Saratoga and glider aircraft. He invented Bulbul's core platforms, ADFP™ and AeroCore™, holds three filed patents, and leads the in-house design of the Velos airframe.

Aerospace Eng · UPESIIT Kanpur · flight mechanicsInventor · ADFP™ / AeroCore™3 patents filedIEEE MemberNational Awardee
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Advisory board — backed by the people who built the industries we're entering

HealthcareDr. Brad Schwartz — former COO, Kaiser Permanente · Director, American Medical Response · 33+ years in healthcare
LogisticsRichard Metzler — FedEx founding team · DHL alumnus · 30+ years in parcel, last-mile & healthcare logistics
Aviation / UASDr. Kenneth Mike — UAS Department Chair, Embry-Riddle · U.S. Navy veteran · 1,500+ combat hours · UN UAV policy contributor
GrowthGregory Hopton — ex-Managing Director, AVL · 30+ years · P&L across public, private & PE-backed companies
DeliveryKhalid Elias — project leader · $1B+ projects executed · global network across US, Europe, UK, Türkiye & the Middle East

Flight operations

Chief PilotBen Marghoub — former DroneUp & Google Wing pilot · 2,850+ flight hours · FAA Part 107 & Part 135 · instrument rated
PeopleSmriti Srivastava — Chief People Officer · M.Tech · 12+ years building teams, culture & brand
CommercialJohn Vrahnos — VP Commercials · international market expansion for engineered platforms

Newsroom

Recognition & momentum

🏆 Award

Bulbul wins the Aegis Graham Bell Award — Drone Technology

Recognized for Innovation in DroneTech at India's Aegis Graham Bell Awards — supported by the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology — placing Bulbul's autonomy stack among the year's standout drone innovations.

Feb 2026 · New Delhi
Jan 2026 · Menifee, CA

Collaborating with the City of Menifee

Working with the City of Menifee to advance drone-enabled healthcare delivery across the region.

Oct 2025 · Menifee, CA

Backed by the EDC of Southern California Wine Country

Strong support from the Economic Development Corporation for Bulbul's innovation and expansion in the region.

Perspective

From Ground to Cloud: building scalable drone delivery infrastructure

"The future of logistics is not being built on roads — it's being built in the skies."

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