Jason H. Lu 🇺🇸 (@JHL

Jason H. Lu 🇺🇸

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Jason H. Lu 🇺🇸

@JHL_Express

Building US-made drones stacked with ML GPUs. Founder ceo @ Flyby Robotics. Aviation & space nerd. 🛫 studied stuff @yale.

Los Angeles, CA

Joined June 2021

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Jason H. Lu 🇺🇸
@JHL_Express
Oct 11, 2025
Hello world! @FlybyRobotics has shipped our first run of F-11 programmable flying AI robots. Dual @nvidia Orin NX capable for 300 TOPS compute. 2TB SSD. 1 hour flight time. 5.7lb payload capacity. EW-resistant mesh radio capable. Zero CCP components. Made in Los Angeles.
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Jason H. Lu 🇺🇸
@JHL_Express
Mar 30, 2024
Taiwan could do the funniest thing by holding a referendum to become the 51st State of the United States. 1. Huge boost to US and Taiwan tech/Econ lead 2. New 3rd most populous state in the Union right after Texas 3. Freedom of 23 million Taiwanese secured for all posterity
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Jason H. Lu 🇺🇸
@JHL_Express
Dec 4, 2024
After months of work, a Flyby F-11 drone can be turned into a massive 3D scanner. We just digitized our test site with a 12-minute flight.
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Jason H. Lu 🇺🇸
@JHL_Express
Mar 30, 2024
Replying to @JHL_Express
My Twitter today:
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Jason H. Lu 🇺🇸
@JHL_Express
Sep 8, 2025
So I heard there’s concerns on how fast American drone startups can make drones. May I present…Group 2 airframe off the press in 30 seconds
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Jason H. Lu 🇺🇸
@JHL_Express
Mar 30, 2024
Replying to @JHL_Express
Memes aside, the game theory behind this is: 1. China (PRC) plans to invade Taiwan 2. Main thing stopping Taiwan from being invaded is deterrence (own strong military, US potential defense) 3. If ur Taiwan, u want to maximize deterrence 4. How you get peak deterrence?
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Jason H. Lu 🇺🇸
@JHL_Express
Mar 30, 2024
Replying to @marcelolima
-1 MILLION social credit score
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Jason H. Lu 🇺🇸
@JHL_Express
Nov 28, 2023
Damn, don’t want to fight with rabois but for folks in American hardware space…the Exo Blackhawk 3 looks spooky identical to Husban Ace 2. Husban is huge in Shenzhen. They’re not as well known as DJI but is one of the top Chinese drone companies.
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Keith Rabois
@rabois
Nov 27, 2023
You can now purchase an American owned & operated drone vs. launching a spy balloon for the CCP. blackhawk3.exodrones.com
Readers added context
Although EXO Drones is a US company, their drones are not manufactured in the United States (nor are they claimed to be), but are instead made by Hubsan in Shenzhen, China accesswire.com/703485/US-Base…
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Jason H. Lu 🇺🇸
@JHL_Express
Jan 2, 2025
In 2024 alone, Ukrine used/sourced 1 million DJI Mavic 3s. Most U.S.-based drone manufacturers cannot produce more than a few thousand units per year. If China is expanding globally, they’re the ones with the massive drone swarms. It’s 2025, US need to wake the fuck up.
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Jason H. Lu 🇺🇸
@JHL_Express
Aug 1, 2025
Replying to @somefoundersalt
LinkedIn post “…and this is why in b2b sales, execution means everything and is how teams win”
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Jason H. Lu 🇺🇸
@JHL_Express
Jun 1, 2025
ArduPilot (the best world wide open sourced drone flight controller) has done more damage to the Russian nuclear triad than any software from the big U.S. defense primes Open source >>> close systems Why? It empowers end users.
Chris Anderson
@chr1sa
Jun 1, 2025
18 years after @Jrdmnz @jason4short and I created ArduPilot, here it is destroying large parts of the Russian air force. Crazy
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Jason H. Lu 🇺🇸
@JHL_Express
Jul 1, 2025
Errr what’s the big deal with DJI dominating all drone manufacturing… Fast forward to 80KG/170 LBS payload quad bombers coming at u with full autonomy sensor suite manufactured in the tens of thousands Also dji is using heavy metal music in promos now. Let u know u’re cooked.
Roy🇨🇦
@GrandpaRoy2
Jul 1, 2025
Chinese drone maker DJI has introduced a heavy coaxial quadcopter with an 80 kg lift capacity. In comparison the Ukrainian “Vampire” hexacopter lifts 15 kg. Among the characteristics are 62 inch blades, a 30 meter winch line, millimeter wave radar, and machine learning guidance.
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Jason H. Lu 🇺🇸
@JHL_Express
Oct 11, 2024
Raising $500m seed to build Baktoid Combat Automata, product line includes: The B1 - low cost attritable combat humanoid The B2 - premium heavy assault grenadier humanoid The Droidekas - shielded mobile infantry suppression fire unit
John Coogan
@johncoogan
Oct 11, 2024
<6 months until a startup gives one of these humanoid robots an AR-15 and raises a $500m seed round.
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Jason H. Lu 🇺🇸
@JHL_Express
Mar 30, 2024
Replying to @ThomasHoufek
Btw Hawaii Statehood was only 1959, at the time it only had a population of 600,000 and a economy on the bottom list. It still ranks only 41/50 states. Taiwan would be in top 10 by economy. And top 3 by population.
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