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Voliro brings in $23M to accelerate inspection drone development
- Voliro, a Swiss aerial robotics developer, secured $23 million in funding to expedite the development of its autonomous aerial inspection robots designed for infrastructure maintenance and industrial safety.
- The company's Voliro T platform, featuring a patented tiltable-rotor design with interchangeable sensor payloads, offers a scalable, data-driven system for safer and more sustainable operations.
- The funding includes an $11 million extension of Voliro's Series A round, led by Cherry Ventures and involving new participation from noa and a debt facility from UBS.
- The technology enables efficient inspection of hard-to-reach infrastructures like wind turbine blades and storage tanks, catering to sectors such as energy, chemicals, and renewables.
- Voliro claimed to facilitate significant time and cost savings in inspections, particularly in the wind industry, by offering faster inspections and reducing downtime without manual access.
- With over 40 global customers in 17 countries, including Chevron and Holcim, Voliro has demonstrated success in performing over 100 contact inspections monthly across various industrial environments.
- Voliro addresses the challenges posed by aging infrastructure and workforce shortages in inspection fields, aiming to improve industrial resilience, enhance safety, and assist in climate adaptation and energy transition.
- The company emphasizes the importance of proactive maintenance, early issue detection, and frequent automated inspections to prevent costly failures and ensure asset integrity.
- Traditional inspection methods involving scaffolding and manual access are identified as risky, costly, and reactive, pushing the need for advanced technology solutions for inspections.
- Voliro's technology is positioned to disrupt the industrial inspection sector by providing reliable, data-driven, and automated inspection solutions for aging and new assets, offering a valuable alternative to traditional approaches.
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