Perceptual Robotics
Developer of drone automation and computer vision company currently focus on wind turbine inspection.
- Cohort
- Autumn 22
- Sector
- Energy & Power · Industrial & Manufacturing
What they do
Utilizing an intelligent Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), Perceptual Robotics provides existing inspection engineers with a new, cost-effective inspection tool that increases number of inspections, and quality, whilst minimising health and safety risks.
Product & technology
Perceptual Robotics provides wind turbine blade inspection services using advanced neural network and optimization algorithms. Their UAVs use onboard LIDAR and imaging to locate and inspect turbines, optimizing image resolution and coverage. Machine learning systems can annotate hundreds of images in an hour, allowing for quick decision-making to maximize asset availability. Perceptual Robotics has a granted patent for automatic flight control for inspection.
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Why we invested
- →Strong CEO
- →Early traction with players in on shore wind turbine inspection which is a large and growing initial market
- →Opportunity to expand into offshore inspection
- →Many other infrastructure markets that the company could address such as power lines, pipelines etc.
- →Potential analytics play in the future
