Lily Robotics, a failed drone startup that closed last month amid a consumer-protection civil suit from the San Francisco District Attorney's office, may now be the subject of a criminal ...

On Dec. 20, Lily Robotics was up against a wall. It was five days before Christmas, and dozens of eager customers who had spent more than $499 to pre-order the company’s flagship product were ...

The plot thickens. Sorry folks, it seems that those refunds might not materialize after all. Lily Robotics apparently used your preorder funds as collateral for a bank loan and might need to pay the ...

That’s the lesson allegedly being learned by Lily Robotics, which, at the end of January, was raided by San Francisco police as part of a potential criminal investigation. Let’s back up.

When Bradlow, the CTO and co-founder of Lily Robotics, gives the go sign, Nghia Ho, the company's computer vision engineer, flings a drone straight up into the air. It rises, and then immediately ...