Perceptual Robotics
Bristol university spin-out building fully autonomous inspection drones and AI software for wind-turbine blade inspection.
Perceptual Robotics is a UK robotics company founded in 2016 as a spin-out from the University of Bristol. Based at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory and Future Space in Bristol, with an additional office in Greece, the company develops autonomous drones and machine-learning software for the inspection of infrastructure, starting with wind turbines.
Its systems combine autonomous flight with AI-based data processing to capture and analyze high-resolution imagery of turbine blades, identifying and classifying defects such as lightning-strike damage, cracks, erosion and delamination with greater consistency and lower cost than manual methods. The company's first product, Dhalion, is an end-to-end autonomous wind-turbine inspection system spanning data acquisition through automated defect identification; the company has reported analyzing inspection data in under 20 minutes per turbine. Perceptual Robotics also markets the drones Dot and Eve: Dot is positioned for fully autonomous, high-detail inspections, while Eve is designed for rapid deployment on urgent tasks. The platform supports both onshore and offshore wind turbines and is used to support predictive maintenance programs, and the company reports having inspected more than 250 onshore turbines with its Dhalion system.
Perceptual Robotics works with wind farm owners and operators across Europe and Latin America and has partnered with energy companies for drone-based inspection programs. The company raised external funding to scale its autonomous inspection technology. Its differentiation is full autonomy across the inspection workflow combined with AI-driven blade-defect detection, reducing the manual piloting and offline analysis required by conventional drone inspections.
Primary type & automation activities this supplier delivers:
Dhalion
End-to-end autonomous wind-turbine inspection system from data acquisition to AI defect identification.
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