Varjo Teleport Launches Automated Drone to Splat Pipeline

Varjo's Teleport platform has shipped a fully automated large area Gaussian splat capture pipeline it's calling Autopilot. It basically functions by drawing a polygon on a map, fly the mission, wait a few hours, share a link. We last covered Teleport when it added a Developer Plan in October 2025; the Autopilot pipeline is the first major expansion of the platform's capture capabilities since Teleport 2.0 shipped in April 2025.

The flight planning step is handled by Aerial 3D, a free companion app Varjo built specifically for this workflow. You draw a rectangle or polygon over the target area on a map; Aerial 3D generates a grid pattern mission and sends it to a compatible drone. The drone flies autonomously while you supervise. No manual waypoint editing, no throttle management. Once the drone lands, images upload to Teleport's cloud and reconstruction begins on parallel GPU infrastructure without further operator involvement.

The scale ceiling is substantially higher than what cloud splat tools currently offer. The Autopilot pipeline supports up to 10,000 images at 5K resolution per capture, producing scenes with up to 100 million splats. The company says beta customers have already flown tens of thousands of missions per month under this pipeline, collectively capturing over 20 billion square meters of real world environments. Teleport has published the Vuores neighborhood in Tampere, Finland, captured with a DJI Mini 5 Pro as a public demo.

Finished captures are immediately navigable in a browser across desktop and mobile, Varjo claims smooth performance even at 100M splats. Scenes are also accessible via the Teleport API, which accepts programmatic image uploads, runs reconstruction jobs, and returns finished captures. Varjo has published a paragliding simulator called Thermals, built on top of a Vuores reconstruction as a proof of concept for interactive applications. The more pointed demonstration is that the underlying terrain can be re-captured and updated on demand, which makes the capture pipeline a recurring data source rather than a one-time deliverable.

Use cases Teleport is targeting span real estate visualization at neighborhood scale, construction progress tracking, geospatial mapping and surveying, digital twins for municipalities, energy and telecommunications infrastructure inspection, and disaster response documentation. For sensitive deployments, the same capabilities are coming to Teleport Secure, an on-premise appliance built for defense and air-gapped enterprise environments.

Teleport is available with pay as you go pricing for individual operators and enterprise plans for larger deployments.