Torubizon Presents at FGN Growth Pitch
Torubizon Co., Ltd. announced its new air route design and visualization platform, "SkyDomain_New Version," at the "FGN Growth Pitch" held in Fukuoka City on April 9, 2026. To address the lack of usable air routes hindering drone adoption, the company uses patented technology to quantitatively evaluate airspace value and risk, collaborating with local governments and major corporations to implement air route infrastructure. This platform offers solutions to structural crises like disaster response and logistics labor shortages.
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Torubizon Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Representative Director: Mamoru Masumoto) presented at the "FGN Growth Pitch" held in Fukuoka City on April 9, 2026, announcing its air route design and visualization platform, "SkyDomain_New Version."
The true bottleneck hindering the widespread adoption of drones is not the performance of the aircraft, but the absence of "flyable routes" (air routes) in society. The company utilizes multiple patented technologies to quantitatively evaluate the value and risk of airspace, and in collaboration with local governments and major corporations, it is developing an infrastructure business to design and implement "usable air routes" on a regular basis.
With three structural crises converging—intensifying disaster countermeasures, a shortage of logistics personnel, and the re-establishment of national defense infrastructure—the company is accelerating the social implementation of air route infrastructure, starting from Fukuoka.
Scene from the pitch competition
Background—If roads stop, regions become isolated
In recent years, multiple structural crises have been progressing simultaneously in Japan.
The driver shortage associated with the "2024 problem" is rapidly depleting the workforce for last-mile logistics, and soaring fuel prices are pushing transportation costs to mountainous and remote areas to their limits. Furthermore, intensifying natural disasters pose the risk of completely isolating regions the moment road infrastructure is cut off, a reality that recurs almost every year.
A common solution to these challenges is to "design air routes in advance."
However, the reason drones cannot fly is not a lack of aircraft. If flight routes are not designed and approved in advance, even the most high-performance aircraft cannot be operated. The true bottleneck in drone adoption is "air infrastructure design."
Image of drone survey during disaster using generative AI
FGN Presentation Summary—Detailed explanation of patented technology
At the FGN Growth Pitch held on April 9, 2026, Representative Director Mamoru Masumoto presented on the theme of "SkyDomain."
This presentation was the first time the patented technology was explained in full detail. The rapid evolution of AI development methods, including AI vibecoding, was the background for the decision that the company's patented technology has entered the implementation phase.
The company's business axis of "not selling aircraft, but establishing air route infrastructure in society" attracted high interest from investors and potential collaboration partners.
Solution—What is SkyDomain?
SkyDomain is an air route infrastructure platform with three functions: "design, visualize, and immediately utilize" airspace.
Regular flight route design: Design drone routes starting from evacuation centers, logistics bases, medical institutions, etc. It can also visualize routes on 3D terrain by linking with PLATEAU (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism 3D City Model).
Emergency response: If drone routes are designed and registered in advance using this system, route data can be immediately downloaded by relevant organizations immediately after a disaster occurs.
Airspace OS: By assigning a unique address to drone routes and managing the "ownership, usage rights, and transaction rights" of data separately, the aim is to build a foundation for circulating airspace data as a social asset.
SkyDomain system development screen
Representative's comment
Islands where ships are stopped by typhoons, preventing food and medicine from reaching them; mountain villages isolated for several days due to collapsed roads. Regions where transportation to mountainous and remote areas is becoming unfeasible due to a combination of driver shortages and soaring fuel prices. These are realities that are repeated somewhere in this country every year.
Drones exist. The technology exists. What is missing are flyable routes.
The development of air route infrastructure is not a challenge that can be completed by a single company.
Only when the regional networks of local governments, the bases and trust of large corporations, and our patented technology and implementation knowledge are combined, can truly usable air routes be created in a region. We are looking for partners—local governments and companies—who can work with us at each stage, from route design to regional consensus, demonstration, and continuous operation. Please work with us to design the sky roads.
The true bottleneck hindering the widespread adoption of drones is not the performance of the aircraft, but the absence of "flyable routes" (air routes) in society. The company utilizes multiple patented technologies to quantitatively evaluate the value and risk of airspace, and in collaboration with local governments and major corporations, it is developing an infrastructure business to design and implement "usable air routes" on a regular basis.
With three structural crises converging—intensifying disaster countermeasures, a shortage of logistics personnel, and the re-establishment of national defense infrastructure—the company is accelerating the social implementation of air route infrastructure, starting from Fukuoka.
Scene from the pitch competition
Background—If roads stop, regions become isolated
In recent years, multiple structural crises have been progressing simultaneously in Japan.
The driver shortage associated with the "2024 problem" is rapidly depleting the workforce for last-mile logistics, and soaring fuel prices are pushing transportation costs to mountainous and remote areas to their limits. Furthermore, intensifying natural disasters pose the risk of completely isolating regions the moment road infrastructure is cut off, a reality that recurs almost every year.
A common solution to these challenges is to "design air routes in advance."
However, the reason drones cannot fly is not a lack of aircraft. If flight routes are not designed and approved in advance, even the most high-performance aircraft cannot be operated. The true bottleneck in drone adoption is "air infrastructure design."
Image of drone survey during disaster using generative AI
FGN Presentation Summary—Detailed explanation of patented technology
At the FGN Growth Pitch held on April 9, 2026, Representative Director Mamoru Masumoto presented on the theme of "SkyDomain."
This presentation was the first time the patented technology was explained in full detail. The rapid evolution of AI development methods, including AI vibecoding, was the background for the decision that the company's patented technology has entered the implementation phase.
The company's business axis of "not selling aircraft, but establishing air route infrastructure in society" attracted high interest from investors and potential collaboration partners.
Solution—What is SkyDomain?
SkyDomain is an air route infrastructure platform with three functions: "design, visualize, and immediately utilize" airspace.
Regular flight route design: Design drone routes starting from evacuation centers, logistics bases, medical institutions, etc. It can also visualize routes on 3D terrain by linking with PLATEAU (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism 3D City Model).
Emergency response: If drone routes are designed and registered in advance using this system, route data can be immediately downloaded by relevant organizations immediately after a disaster occurs.
Airspace OS: By assigning a unique address to drone routes and managing the "ownership, usage rights, and transaction rights" of data separately, the aim is to build a foundation for circulating airspace data as a social asset.
SkyDomain system development screen
Representative's comment
Islands where ships are stopped by typhoons, preventing food and medicine from reaching them; mountain villages isolated for several days due to collapsed roads. Regions where transportation to mountainous and remote areas is becoming unfeasible due to a combination of driver shortages and soaring fuel prices. These are realities that are repeated somewhere in this country every year.
Drones exist. The technology exists. What is missing are flyable routes.
The development of air route infrastructure is not a challenge that can be completed by a single company.
Only when the regional networks of local governments, the bases and trust of large corporations, and our patented technology and implementation knowledge are combined, can truly usable air routes be created in a region. We are looking for partners—local governments and companies—who can work with us at each stage, from route design to regional consensus, demonstration, and continuous operation. Please work with us to design the sky roads.