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Reliable Robotics is building autonomous flight systems and the certification evidence to prove safety. See how Reliable streams vehicle, lab, and simulation telemetry into Sift so engineers action the data in real time.
Reliable Robotics at a glance
FOUNDED
2017
HEADQUARTERS
Mountain View, California
MISSION
Bring safe, certified autonomous systems to commercial and defense aviation
BUILDING
Autonomous flight systems that retrofit existing aircraft for remote, uncrewed operation
Autonomous flight is aviation's next leap, and Reliable Robotics is already flying it. Founded by SpaceX veterans who built the flight software behind Falcon 9 and Dragon, Reliable retrofits existing aircraft to fly with no one aboard. In 2023, it made history with the first FAA-approved uncrewed flight of a large cargo aircraft, and it's backed by $300M in funding, contracts with the U.S. Air Force, and collaboration with NASA.
In aviation, flying is the easy part; proving and certifying it is trickier. Reliable's FAA-accepted certification plan demands a safety case built from every vehicle, lab, and simulation run. How fast engineers can turn that telemetry into decisions sets the pace of the entire program.
Reliable refused to let data wrangling set that pace. Instead of custom scripts and one-off tooling for every team, Reliable streams vehicle, lab, and simulation telemetry into Sift, where any engineer can see it, act on it, and turn it into evidence.
Complex autonomous systems generate vast telemetry across vehicle, lab, and simulation assets. Insights sat behind custom scripts, programming, and setup, and manual review stood between the data and the anomalies hiding in it. Reliable needed two things: velocity in decision-making and data any engineer could reach.
Live telemetry and onboard logs flow into Sift, putting time-series views and event logs in front of the whole team in a browser. Review criteria are codified directly into the platform for automatic, real-time assessment, and annotated views spread insights across the organization.
Making informed engineering decisions across simulation, test, and flight assets is easier when everything lives in one platform. Reliable's engineers move faster from anomaly to root-cause investigation while holding the safety bar FAA certification demands, all in Sift.
Accepted
FAA certification plan
The certification path is real, and every flight adds to the evidence behind it. That evidence moves through Sift.
NASA
Collaboration with
Proving autonomous flight alongside the agency that wrote the book on flight safety.
U.S. Air Force
Contracts with
Defense missions demand data discipline. Reliable's telemetry holds one standard across commercial and defense programs.
1st
FAA-approved uncrewed flight of a large cargo aircraft in U.S. history
Made in 2023, and every flight since builds the case that autonomy belongs in the national airspace.
Sift for Aerospace
Stream live telemetry and upload onboard event logs to put the same data in front of the whole team. Reliable pulled diagnostic insights that inform engineering decisions from flight one, trading data wrangling for building.
Codify review criteria once, so anomalies across vehicle, lab, and simulation assets surface automatically in real time. Reliable skips the manual review queue and moves from data to root-cause investigation faster, holding the safety standards FAA certification demands with Sift.
Drop the custom scripts and one-off tooling, so any engineer can analyze vehicle, lab, and simulation telemetry without programming or setup. Reliable unifies it all on one platform, on one timeline from test to ops, tightening the loop between test and flight.
Sift features
Stream live flights and upload onboard logs to one timeline
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Reliable's vehicle, lab, and simulation telemetry lands in Sift, instantly viewable by the whole team in a browser.
Codify review criteria once, assess every run automatically
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Reliable's engineers turn their review standards into Sift Rules, so anomalies surface in real time without manual review.
Visualize flight data with no code
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Any engineer opens time-series views and event logs without programming, setup, or custom scripts.
Share annotated views across the organization
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Insights propagate through shareable, annotated links, so context travels with the data through every review.
Move from anomaly to root cause faster
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Automatic, real-time assessment tees up investigations the moment behavior deviates, keeping the certification safety bar intact.
Unify simulation, test, and flight assets on one platform
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Reliable runs its full implementation across every asset type, one system from test to ops.
