Buildmo builds custom hardware for tough environments: drones, counter-drone systems, mobile labs, and sensing platforms. We deliver it anywhere in the world and train your people to run it. If the machine you need doesn't exist yet, we build it and prove it in the field.
We design and build drones, counter-drone systems, mobile labs, and sensing platforms. Real machines for problems that store-bought products can't solve.
Military and government units that need new tools. Companies that don't have their own hardware team. Research labs with good technology that has never left the bench.
Working, field-tested hardware, delivered where you need it. Your own people trained to run it, fix it, and change it. Usually in weeks, not years.
We offer three services. Most projects use all three.
From concept to working hardware in six weeks. Recent builds: mobile laboratories, purpose-built drones, maritime sensing platforms.
We take new and commercial technology and turn it into systems that hold up in the real world. Then we deliver them where they're needed.
We don't hand off black boxes. Every build comes with training, so your team can run it, fix it, and change it. That's the idea behind Innovation Bootcamp.
A small sampling of 200+ delivered prototypes. Every one shipped with training.
Fully nylon 3D-printed frame with replaceable parts. An FPV and payload-capable platform, featured in a Formlabs press release.
During the pandemic the City of Alexandria deployed Buildmo's UV-C robot to clean rooms autonomously after hours, killing COVID-19 on exposed surfaces.
An autonomous surface vessel that travelled open ocean and deployed a sensor at a specific location. Developed with USMC in under a week, for a few thousand dollars in components.
Robust, fast carbon fibre drone built for the FBI for rapid room evaluation and clearing. Buildmo built several and taught operators to deploy and pilot them under pressure.
SOFWERX contracted Buildmo to design and build crypto-modifying mobile labs for the Navy: two low-descript trucks fitted with solar panels and a full suite of tools and equipment.
NAVSEA needed to disinfect sea bags before sailors went aboard ship. In seven weeks Buildmo invented a pallet-mobile conveyor that disinfected bags in seconds.
An FPV drone smaller than a business card, purpose-built for non-alerting covert surveillance.
Multiple SOF groups needed a training drone able to carry a small payload and conduct FPV surveillance. One of numerous custom platforms built to precise client requirements.
USASOC needed a UGV that could drive at night and extend the range of small UAS. Buildmo prototyped several variants, then taught operators to modify, pilot and deploy it independently.
A fixed-wing blood sample delivery drone for urban environments where infrastructure prohibits quick lab turnaround on critical samples.
Buildmo iterated on the first mobile containerized lab for USMC with more efficient power conversion. This second-generation unit deployed to Japan with full prototyping and fabrication capability.
Recognising that drone jammers were selling at absurd prices, Buildmo invented a low-cost, high-power barrage jammer for a few thousand dollars in components.
A containerized mobile prototyping lab for USMC in Japan: 3D printers, laser cutter, CNC mill, digital mill, welding, wood and metal cutting, and solar charging a 5 kW battery wall.
The Air Force needed a heavy-lift platform that also tracked certain vehicles. Buildmo built a hexacopter using on-camera AI to identify target vehicles, then taught the airmen to build and pilot it.
Buildmo invented a UV-C dosimeter correlated to the flux required to kill coronavirus. The low-cost device was sold to the Navy and to municipalities to enable their own UV-C work.
An OSD project to generate interest in high-tech fabrication careers. Buildmo built a travelling manufacturing centre with current tools and equipment that build solutions in real time.
Buildmo designed and built the first NDAA-compliant 2-inch racing drone, including a fully 3D-printed frame. Thirty were provided to SCSP for the AI+ Expo 2025 drone racing events.
USASOC needed to transmit signals simulating a tactical operations centre. Buildmo designed the payload to be dropped from a drone, and delivered it in a matter of weeks.
A low-cost mesh radio-linked sonobuoy built as a training prototype for USMC in Japan. Tracked by open-source software, it recorded sound underwater and transmitted data back to shore.
In 3.5 days a small EOD team worked with Buildmo engineers to build a bomb-neutralizing robot. The wire-operated robot removed detonators from a dummy bomb and disposed of it.
A mobile classroom and prototyping lab in a trailer for USMC. The Marine Maker program ran out of this trailer for two years, crossing the country three times and stopping at USMC bases.
A small UGV with a Geiger counter built into the chassis for detection of nuclear materials. A training robot designed for data collection, refinement and field iteration.
Australian 2nd Commandos wanted a mobile UxS development lab for drone building in austere environments: 3D printers, laser cutter, CNC mill, soldering stations, manual mill and electronics test.
Fewer than 35% of defense technologies ever reach the end user. We fix that with prototyping, fielding, and training, done by people who still deploy.
When you can't hire hardware engineers fast enough, we step in. We design, build, and integrate as an extension of your team.
Good research often stops at the paper or the patent. We take it from the bench, move it up the TRL ladder, and put a working prototype in front of the customer who funds the next step.
Catalog gear is fine when it fits. First, our engineers go to the field and study the real problem. Then you buy or build only what you need.
You get working hardware in six weeks, tested in real conditions with end users involved. Not a slide deck and a schedule.
We deliver the system and teach your team to run it. No black boxes. No permanent dependence on us.
A gap in the field. A system that needs to work with your other systems. Hardware that nobody sells. Tell us what's broken and where. We'll tell you what we'd build and how fast.
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