M40 Context

Market context

M40 is an ABZ Innovation heavy-lift open-source UAV platform with a 40 kg load capacity for industrial and custom field applications.

  • Target environment: Agricultural operations, industrial field sites, test ranges and custom payload environments.
  • Workflow context: Heavy payload carriage, field experimentation, industrial sensing, logistics support and custom UAV integration.
  • Customer context: Drone service providers, industrial operators, agricultural teams and developers needing heavy-lift aerial capacity.
  • Deployment model: Modular UAV platform model with payload-dependent deployment.
  • Commercial maturity: Commercial product surface positioned around heavier-duty field operations.
  • Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on payload integration, flight regulation, operator certification and local service support.
  • Market position: Heavy-lift member of ABZ's modular UAV lineup for missions that exceed compact drone capacity.
  • Adjacent products: M12, L50, S50, ZMD60, DJI FlyCart-class systems

Audience

Industrial integrators

Workflow

Heavy payload carriage, field experimentation, industrial sensing, logistics support and custom UAV integration.

Deployment environment

Agricultural operations, industrial field sites, test ranges and custom payload environments.

Specifications

  • Dimensions: Unfolded 2435 x 2541 x 752 mm; folded 979 x 683 x 752 mm
  • Certifications And Approvals: EU Declaration of Conformity linked from ABZ M40 product page
  • Communication Range: Approximately 8 km effective RC signal range
  • Endurance: endurance hours: 22 min hovering (per ABZ)
  • Operational Environment: IP54
  • Flight Time Minutes: 22 min hovering time
  • Ip Rating: IP54 protection
  • Payload Capacity: payload capacity kg: 40 kg load capacity
  • Features: mtow kg: 75 kg maximum takeoff weight
  • Max Altitude M: 4500 m AMSL maximum flight altitude; 120 m AGL maximum flight altitude
  • Operating Role: Agricultural drone platform for larger field applications
  • Software: Open-source stack
  • Max Speed: speed range: 15 m/s maximum level speed
  • Task Scope: Agricultural UAV platform operations
  • System Role: Cargo drone
  • Use Cases: Heavy lifting
  • Operating Environment: Industrial integrators

Tags

  • Peer Group: Research payload UAV, Industrial mapping drone
  • Capability: Remote operation
  • Deployment Environment: Outdoor field environment
  • Stack Layer: Finished robot platform
  • Commercial Stage: Commercial product

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