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Notus Autonomous Systems

Swarm robotics and full AI-command hierarchy integration

We develop drones and land based autonomous robots that are designed to be controlled as groups and execute autonomous missions instead of requiring skilled operators to pilot or control. Once a critical mass of intelligent devices are deployed on the battlefield, it will fundamentally reshape the command structure of the modern military into something resembling an RTS game (Like Starcraft, Civilization, Command & Conquer, etc), reducing response times from minutes to milliseconds.
Active Founders
Arhum Jain
Arhum Jain

Arhum Jain, Founder

I build autonomous ground and drone systems
Emmanuel Margolin
Emmanuel Margolin

Emmanuel Margolin, Founder

CEO and cofounder of swarm drone defense company.
Notus Autonomous Systems
Founded:2025
Batch:Spring 2025
Team Size:2
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Primary Partner:Pete Koomen
Company Launches
Notus Systems 🦉 Scaling drones from hundreds to thousands
See original launch post

How do you win a war?

It’s a question most people don’t want to ever have to answer.

But for the first time since WW2, democracy is under direct attack.

Defense companies can make billions selling theoretical solutions, but once sh** hits the fan and missiles are landing ten kilometers from your apartment, you’re going to want what works. Quickly.

So we dropped out of Caltech and went to Ukraine to figure out what really worked. Amidst Russian shaheds striking in the distance and Kyiv’s air defenses lighting up the sky, we met with soldiers, hackers, and engineers. Their striking kindness and hospitality in the face of total mobilization and a ceaseless stream of air raid sirens was indescribable. The invasion wasn’t just war, but industrialized hatred.


It turns out war is hacking. Drones and robots – code – now dictate the battlefield. Gear from big name U.S. defense tech becomes obsolete in a month. The pipeline from R&D to testing to the battlefield is too slow for a real war.

So we’re making a new defense company, one which leads from the front. Literally. Our first product, PALLAS, will resolve ad-hoc drone software standards and replace the FPV operator with a drone commander–allowing them to pilot thousands of devices at once instead of just one. Handcrafted from combat user feedback, it will be optimized for victory – not ticking boxes in a contract.

-Emmanuel Margolin, Arhum Jain.
Please contact us for detailed specifics on our software, what we learnt about modern war in Ukraine, and the engineering that will allow a single ground-station to control many different types of devices, including in EW affected areas.
founders@notussystems.com.
www.notussystems.com