# Neros

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/neros/  
**Website:** https://www.neros.tech/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

Neros Technologies is an American defense manufacturer founded in 2023 and headquartered in El Segundo, California, that designs and mass-produces low-cost, attritable first-person-view (FPV) drones and ground control stations for Western military forces. Its product line includes the ARCHER FPV airframe, ARCHER STRIKE, and the CROSSBOW and LONGBOW ground control stations, built on in-house flight control, powertrain, and radio hardware for electronic-warfare resistance. Neros publishes no public web API; its machine-readable interface contribution is APEX (Adaptive Payload EXchange), an open, MIT-licensed, plug-and-play UART protocol and mechanical connector standard for drone host/payload interoperability, with a C99 reference implementation and a hardware development kit published on GitHub.

## Kin Score — 18.5 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 18.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 66.7 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 12.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 21.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 19.6 |
| Commercial Clarity | 18.4 |

## Agent readiness — 3.6 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## APIs (1)

- **APEX — Adaptive Payload EXchange** — APEX is Neros Technologies' open, MIT-licensed plug-and-play protocol for connecting drone platforms (hosts) and payloads (devices) over a standard 10-pin connector. The core pr...

## Security (1)

- **Neros Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Defense, Drones, Unmanned Systems, UAV, Aerospace, Robotics, Hardware, Manufacturing, Protocols, Open Source, Embedded

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/neros/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.