# Reliable Robotics Has 200 Customers and No FAA Certificate. It Found a Way to Fly Anyway.

- slug: reliable-robotics-has-200-customers-and-no-faa-certificate-it-found-a-way-to-fly-anyway
- date: 2026-04-23
- category: Robotics

200 customers — including the US military — signed up for Reliable Robotics autonomous aircraft before the FAA certified it. A regulatory program lets it fly anyway. Now the company has $160M in fresh funding to keep the bet alive.

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