UXDuck

People building software for drones, rovers, boats and submarines today rely on tools like Mission Planner and QGroundControl built on top of ArduPilot. The founder, who has spent six years on developer tools and drones at Helsing, Improbable and Ocado Technology, frames the goal as making it easier to build useful things with these vehicles, citing examples like medical delivery drones, marine conservation submarines, demining rovers and rescue buoys. The site's tagline, 'Develop at speed. Launch with confidence. Fly without stalling,' implies that developing and launching vehicle software today is slow or unreliable, though the text does not quantify this cost.

UXDuck describes itself as 'Android for drones,' a platform built on ArduPilot that supports planes, copters, rovers, boats and submarines, and that works alongside existing tools like Mission Planner and QGroundControl rather than replacing them outright. It can be used directly or from AI coding tools like Claude or Codex. The core, UXDuck Core, is open source under the Apache 2.0 license and hosted on GitHub. The product is free to use, including for commercial use. Listed as coming soon are AI-native sandboxed plugins, multiplayer practice games, PX4 support, mission planning and preflight checklists.