Asylon in October: DroneLife, the RADICL Podcast and a Boston Dynamics Webinar

Asylon Robotics, a Veteran Ventures Capital Fund I portfolio company, drew three pieces of coverage in the middle of October that together explain how its managed robotic security service works.

DroneLife's Jim Magill published a feature on October 14 built on an interview with CEO and founder Damon Henry. Asylon pairs its Guardian drones with ground robots built on Boston Dynamics' Spot and with base stations whose robotic arm swaps a drone's battery in about two and a half minutes; drones fly for about 40 minutes per charge and patrols typically run 30 minutes every hour. The company sells a fully managed service with a 24/7 monitoring center in Philadelphia, employs FAA-certified pilots and holds some beyond-visual-line-of-sight authorizations. It has about 100 employees and serves customers across North America and Hawaii, including military installations, water-treatment plants, power substations and stadiums; the article names Ford, Asylon's first customer in 2019, a Citizens Bank campus in Rhode Island, Mercedes-Benz Stadium and agricultural tracts in Hawaii patrolled for wild animals, wildfires and trespassers. "You can have a drone and a dog on site. They can talk to each other. One can trigger a launch of the other," Henry said. Of the stadium, he said, "We've driven their theft and vandalism at the exterior of the stadium to zero since we've been there." DroneLife also prints a July U.S. Air Force SBIR Phase III award of $2.34 million for the Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex; the figure is the outlet's.

On October 13 Asylon published a post about Henry's appearance on Episode 124 of the RADICL podcast, on selling outcomes rather than robots in defense acquisition. He covered his path from Boeing and GE to founding Asylon, the decision to build hardware rather than software alone, the security-as-a-service model, and the U.S. Air Force aircraft-inspection demonstration in which Asylon ran a drone and a robot dog around an aircraft from Philadelphia with one person on the ground, which helped lead to the company's Phase III Air Force contract.

Asylon also published on October 14 a post on Henry's appearance in a Boston Dynamics webinar, "Leveraging Robotics for Smarter Perimeter Security Inspections," with Paul Cisternelli, Enterprise Sales Manager at Boston Dynamics, and Matt Paschoal, Pac-West Corporate Security Lead at Bayer Crop Science, on robotic perimeter inspections, redeploying robots across sites as needs change, keeping people out of dangerous situations and adding robotics to an existing security program.

Veteran Ventures Capital invested in Asylon through Fund I.

Sources: DroneLife — Robot Dogs and Drones? Asylon Robotics Guards Critical Infrastructure; Asylon — Damon Henry Joins RADICL to Talk Selling Outcomes, Not Robots, in Defense Acquisition; Asylon — Damon Henry Featured in Boston Dynamics Webinar on Robotic Perimeter Security; RADICL — Episode 124: Asylon's Damon Henry on Selling Outcomes Instead of Robots; Boston Dynamics — Leveraging Robotics for Smarter Perimeter Security Inspections; Asylon primary release via Business Wire — Phase Three Aircraft Inspection Contract, July 9, 2026; VVC — Asylon Robotics company profile, Fund I.