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Voliro Raises $23M to Expand Aerial Robotics for Infrastructure Inspection
- Voliro, a Zurich-based aerial robotics company, secures $23 million in Series A funding to scale their autonomous drone technology for industrial infrastructure inspections.
- Voliro's drones are designed for inspecting difficult-to-reach structures like flare stacks, chimneys, and wind turbines using a patented tiltable-rotor design and modular payload system.
- The funding will be used to enhance the Voliro T platform with cloud integration, autonomy, and AI tools for more frequent and automated inspections.
- The technology addresses the need for safer and more efficient inspections as aging industrial assets and workforce gaps in non-destructive testing pose challenges.
- Voliro's drones have already gained traction globally with over 40 companies in 17 countries utilizing them for contact-based inspections, especially in the energy and renewables sectors.
- The company's drones are reported to perform lightning protection system inspections in wind farms five times faster than manual methods, reducing costs and downtime.
- The investment from venture capital firm noa highlights Voliro's potential to transform industrial infrastructure maintenance through automation and robotics.
- Voliro aims to revolutionize infrastructure maintenance by leveraging robotics, AI, and industry expertise to reduce human risk and enhance data quality.
- Voliro, a spin-off of ETH Zurich's Autonomous Systems Lab, continues to pioneer solutions that make industrial maintenance safer, efficient, and appealing to younger workers.
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