Upbeat Technology launches Bluemag Pi AI flight controller

Oct 7, 2026
Upbeat Technology has launched Bluemag Pi, a flight controller that combines aircraft control and onboard AI inference on one board.

Upbeat Technology announced in a press release the launch of Bluemag Pi, a flight controller that combines flight control and onboard AI inference on one board. It is designed for fixed wing aircraft, commercial multirotor drones and unmanned surface vessels.

Bluemag Pi uses Upbeat Technology's UP301 system on chip, with SiFive E3 and E2 RISC-V processor cores. Its dual core design separates time sensitive flight tasks from AI, communications, navigation and system management. The board runs Apache NuttX and supports the PX4, ArduPilot and Betaflight open source flight control stacks.

The board includes two inertial measurement units, a barometer, two satellite navigation receivers and onboard flight data storage. It also supports MAVLink telemetry, common remote control receivers, motors and additional sensors. Bluemag Pi is available through Upbeat Technology's website, while customers can purchase the UP301 chip separately for custom carrier boards.

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