Force1 🇺🇸

📍 Bellevue, Washington, USA

🏢 Founded 2016

🌍 Consumer RC & Beginner Drones

Overview Innovations Products Applications Resources

Company Overview

Force1 is a popular American brand focused on making drone flight completely accessible, safe, and fun for beginners and families. Unlike companies chasing Hollywood cinematography, Force1 designs ruggedized, affordable quadcopters meant to take a beating while teaching new pilots the fundamentals of aerodynamics, FPV (First Person View) flight, and aerial photography.

Core Technologies

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Integrated Propeller Guards

Force1 drones frequently feature 360-degree, cage-style propeller guards integrated directly into the chassis, ensuring absolute safety for indoor flying and bumping into walls.

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Infrared Hand Sensing

Pioneered in their ‘Scoot’ line of drones, utilizing multiple infrared sensors around the drone to detect walls and hands, allowing users to ‘push’ the drone through the air without a remote.

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Custom FPV Ecosystems

Developing seamless, beginner-friendly smartphone apps that pair instantly with the drone’s WiFi, introducing young pilots to live FPV video transmission and VR goggle integration.

Featured Solutions

Scoot Hand-Operated Drones

A massively popular, ultra-safe indoor toy drone encased in a flexible webbed shell. It flies entirely via infrared sensors, bouncing away from walls and hands automatically.

U45W Blue Jay

An excellent beginner camera drone featuring Altitude Hold (barometer), one-button takeoff/landing, and real-time WiFi FPV video streaming to a smartphone.

F110G FPV Racing Drone

An entry-level, brushless motor racing drone designed to introduce hobbyists to the extreme speeds and goggle-based flying of the drone racing circuit.