Distributor --> Manufacturer
What's next starts here.
We’re taking years of operator experience and putting it into what comes next — a new spray drone platform, a growing autonomous ecosystem and a clear path toward greater U.S. development and manufacturing.
We’re starting from the field
For years, we've helped operators put agricultural drones to work across real acres and real spray seasons. We’ve learned where the technology excels.
We’ve also learned where it needs to get better.
Our next platform takes those lessons forward — with enhancements shaped by field experience and the full parts, dealer, and support infrastructure behind it.
What field experience is pointing us towards:
- More accurate and efficient application performance
- More robust power connectivity and efficient power transfer
- Improved component durability
- More intuitive maintenance and serviceability
- The familiar foundation and operator experience of a proven platform
- Backed by parts, dealers, technical support, and growing software infrastructure
Specifics on the platform itself are coming later this year.
This drone is one step in a much bigger plan.
Greater control over quality, product development, software and supply chain lets operator feedback travel a shorter distance to the people making product decisions. Here’s the progression we’re working through.
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2026
The first step
- U.S.-based servers
- Groundwork laid for U.S.-based assembly
- Some U.S.-based components
- U.S.-based quality control
- Small-batch assembly underway
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2027
The platform
- Ramping towards full-scale assembly
- U.S.-managed software
- Training and support built in from day one
- A new, U.S.-designed drone frame
- More U.S.-made electronics
- Some U.S.-sourced critical flight components
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2028
The next generation
- Scaling U.S.-based sourcing of flight components
- Target: Critical components +65% of total drone cost made in America
- The autonomous future becomes reality
The future isn't one autonomous drone. It's an autonomous operation.
That’s the longer story — where we're headed, what greater control changes for the operator and how the Drone Dock (and future autonomous solutions) fit in.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this next model going to be an EAVision drone?
- Our next drone model is based on the proven EAVision J150 platform, but it is an Agri Spray Drones product with a proprietary design and ASD-directed enhancements. It represents an important bridge between the technology our customers know today and the progressive path towards the U.S.-designed, sourced, assembled, and supported drone ecosystem we are building for the future.
- This platform is part of our conditional approval pathway and allows us to deliver a proven product while we build our own U.S.-based assembly and manufacturing capabilities. Our next drone model is an important step in that transition—it’s not simply a renamed EAVision drone.
Where is this next model going to be made?
- Our next drone model is currently assembled in China by EAVision. Before reaching customers, each drone undergoes ASD’s U.S.-based quality-control process and is backed by our U.S. team and nationwide dealer network.
- This allows us to bring the drone to market under our current regulatory pathway while we establish U.S.-based assembly and manufacturing capabilities. It is one step in a deliberate transition toward future drones designed and manufactured increasingly here in the United States.
Will this next model be compatible with the Drone Dock?
Yes!
Who will control the software / firmware updates and releases on this next model?
- Next model (transitional period)
- Software is housed on U.S. AWS servers
- Software and firmware updates will be manufacturer-driven, while ASD makes the call to release (or if additional improvements are needed)
- Software and firmware for the following generation will be fully ASD managed and controlled
If the next model is based on the J150 platform, what's going to be changing?
- Custom hood and accent design, ASD branding
- ASD-branded software, housed within U.S.-based AWS servers
- Larger, heavier duty spray tank (20 gal → 22.5 gal)
- Larger spray piping - allows for more flow
- More robust flow meter
- Upgraded to larger, single spray esc
- Allows for more durable spray harness connectivity, easier serviceability, higher power rating
- New updated spray atomizer disc
- Improved design for optimal performance
- Quick release nozzle mount for easier nozzle remove and serviceability
- Larger, more streamlined, single solenoid -- allows for larger flow.
- Newly designed electromagnetic flowmeter (original is ultrasonic, was more sensitive to bubbles, etc.)
- New battery terminal design.
- Newly designed terminal eyelet clamps, integrates a battery locking mechanism. Helps improve drone battery terminal life, longevity, etc.
- Upgraded battery BMS (battery management system) top – also integrates with battery locking mechanism
- Upgraded quality and durability of battery terminals
- Arms and arm locks
- Thicker, heavier-duty arm, upgraded style
- Steel arm lock – upgraded turn buckle components (from 304 to 316 stainless steel)
- Upgraded arm holding bolt
- Made of 316 stainless steel (original was 304)
- Increased thread diameter (to house larger locking nut (6mm (original) to 8mm (new))
- Upgrade motors and motor mounts
- Better design, with cooling fans incorporated into design
- Same size as J150, some upgraded material, upgraded housing design (i.e. cooling fan)
- More intuitive design for motor mounts, removing the potential for accidental reverse installation
- New carbon-fiber props, with teeter mounting bracket
- Helps reduce vibration
- Full carbon props also help reduce vibration
Other enhancements:
- Improved image transmission
- Upgraded LED spotlight for night ops
How are you supporting J150 users into the future?
J150 customers will continue to be supported through ASD’s nationwide dealer network, technical support team and robust parts infrastructure well beyond the launch of our next platform.
We’re also developing upgrade options that will allow customers to bring select improvements to their existing J150s.
The launch of a future model does not change our commitment to the operators who rely on the J150 today—we intend to keep them supported, equipped and flying.
Tell me more about the autonomous future…
While current spray drones effectively automate flight, our focus is on automating the entire environment surrounding the operation.
By building a connected ecosystem—such as our Drone Dock, which handles automatic refilling between missions—we are reducing manual intervention and improving overall operating efficiency.
Our goal is to make the entire process easier to run, because we believe the future isn't just one autonomous drone; it's an autonomous. operation
The next step is coming.
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The next step is coming.
Get on the list and see it first.