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.

Technology

A tilt-motor VTOL, built to be trusted

Fixed-wing range with helicopter precision — and an autonomy stack built to run fleets, not just fly one aircraft.

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

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
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Place a request

Via the web dashboard or an HL7 FHIR-compatible API.

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Dispatch < 2 min

The nearest Menifee-hub drone is loaded, checked, and dispatched automatically.

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AeroCore™ navigates

The routing engine plans the optimal path in under 5 seconds.

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Precision winch drop

The drone hovers and lowers the package — no landing required.

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Instant confirmation

Real-time tracking and digital chain-of-custody. Full audit trail.

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, stated plainly

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

Two founders. A bench you don't expect.

CEO · Founder

Mohammed Elyas

Serial entrepreneur with 20+ years building businesses — driving strategy, partnerships, and expansion.

CTO · Co-founder

Ankur Verma

Aerospace engineer from commercial aviation safety & QA. Inventor of ADFP™ and AeroCore™, with 3 patents filed.

HealthcareDr. Brad Schwartz — former COO, Kaiser Permanente · 33+ years in healthcare
LogisticsRichard Metzler — FedEx founding team · DHL alumnus · 30+ years in global delivery
AviationDr. Kenneth Mike — UAS Department Chair, Embry-Riddle · U.S. Navy veteran
Menifee PD engages Bulbul on drone-first-responder operationsOCT 2025
Advisory board convenes — healthcare, logistics, aviationOCT 2025
Aegis Graham Bell Award — Innovation in DroneTech2025

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