Using Drone Technology in the Fight Against Methane Emissions
/
Oil and gas companies, industry coalitions, NGOs, and startups are deploying unmanned technology to reduce methane release into the atmosphere.
Read More
Latest News
Boston Dynamics Gives Spot a Leg (or Arm) Up
/
Boston Dynamics releases new products and upgrades to improve enterprise robots and automation.
Read MoreEquinor and Nordic Unmanned to Study Drone Use in Offshore Oil and Gas
/
Equinor and Nordic Unmanned plan to study how drones and unmanned systems can be used more extensively in oil and gas.
Read MoreCOVID-19 Has Been Great for Robots
/
Companies are investing in automation at an accelerated pace to keep workflows running smoothly while following COVID-19 protocols.
Read MorePercepto launches major US expansion with the appointment of VP Sales Robert Mayfield
/
Percepto, pioneering autonomous inspection by industrial robotics, today announced a major strategic expansion in the North American market with the appointment of seasoned sales executive Robert Mayfield as VP of Sales, North America along with a new headquarters opening in Texas by Q2 2021.
Read MoreBehind the Scenes: Shell Extracts Big Benefits from Unmanned Systems in 2020
/
Shell is seeing the benefits of using unmanned aerial systems (UAS) for inspections, monitoring, surveying and more. They’re saving money, collecting better data and improving safety.
Read MoreAutonomous Inspection Pioneer Percepto Scores Triple Drone Regulation Win
/
Percepto, the global market leader for autonomous industrial drone solutions, today announced three regulatory milestones, completing the Type Certification and D&R test flight phase taking the company a step closer to the highly regarded US FAA Type Certification, countrywide EVLOS in Australia and BLOS in Norway, demonstrating the company’s commitment to safety and empowering its customers to avoid lengthy approval delays associated with most regulatory hurdles.
Read MorePercepto Secures $45 Million Investment Led by Koch Disruptive Technologies to Deliver Truly Autonomous Inspection of Industrial Sites
/
Percepto, pioneering autonomous inspection by industrial robotics, today announced a strategic investment of $45 million in Series B funding led by Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT) to launch a transformative solution for remote, fully autonomous, asset monitoring, inspection and compliance of industrial sites.
Read MoreANRA Technologies Launches Drone Identification Service In Switzerland
/
ANRA Technologies, a leader in UAS Traffic Management (UTM), today launched SmartSkiesTM DroneID in partnership with the Swiss Federal Office of Civil Aviation (FOCA) and Swiss U-Space Implementation (SUSI) to remotely identify drones in Switzerland.
Read MoreELIOS 2 TESTED AT THE CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER PLANT
/
Flyability partnered with DroneUA to conduct a mission at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant with the goal of determining whether nuclear waste was present in one of the plant’s decommissioned reactors.
Read MoreMartin UAV Partners with SOUTHCOM on Enhanced Counter-Narcotics Operations
/
Martin UAV successfully demonstrated the shipboard integration of its V-BAT, as well as its impressive maritime capabilities in support of United States Southern Command’s (SOUTHCOM) counter-narcotics operations in the Eastern Pacific from Oct. 6, 2019 to July 31, 2020.
Read MoreJoint Effort to Increase Female Participation in Energy Industry
/
The Energy Drone & Robotics Coalition and the Women and Drones network have formed a new partnership to broaden access to opportunities for women using drones in the energy sectors.
Read MoreUnmanned Aircraft Selected to Support Site Acceptance Testing of North Dakota's Statewide BVLOS Network
/
The Northern Plains UAS Test Site (NPUASTS) has selected Volansi’s VOLY C10 for Site Acceptance Testing and use-case development for North Dakota’s statewide beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) network.
Read MoreEnergy Drone & Robotics Summit expands and shifts to digital
/
With the safety and well-being of its participants as the priority, and based on results from recent industry pulse surveys, the Energy Drone & Robotics Coalition has made the decision to host this year's Summit fully digital.
Read MorePercepto Receives a Breakthrough Approval to fly its Autonomous Drones Beyond Visual Line of Sight in Israel at ICL Dead Sea Operations
/
Percepto, the global market leader for autonomous industrial drone solutions, today announced that it has been given permission to fly Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLoS) at the ICL Dead Sea site in Israel.
Read MorePercepto’s Commercial Drones become the First to Parachute to Safety with Industry Compliant Feature
/
Percepto, the global market leader for autonomous industrial drone solutions, today announced that its on-site autonomous drone, the Percepto Sparrow, is the first on the market to offer an ASTM 3322-18 standard compliant integral parachute after completing more than 50 successful test flights.
Read MoreThird Installment: AI tomorrow
/
Advanced algorithms taking over the world. Artificial lovers in the form of sentient algorithms. When we think about Artificial Intelligence in the future, our minds often wander along the lines of science fiction.
Read MoreInstallment 2: AI Today
/
As the amount of data grows, so does the challenge of extracting value from set data. In 2020, many companies trust that Artificial Intelligence can assist in data processing. But, while AI-technologies will undoubtedly revolutionize almost every industry at some point, in the market of visual infrastructure-inspections, it is still early days.
Read MoreInstallment 1: AI Explained
/
90% of the world’s data was created in the past two years (SINTEF, 2013), and more is generated each second. As a result of this exponential data growth, more and more AI-powered data management technologies are emerging, and expressions like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning are being used interchangeably.
Read MoreTop Impacts of COVID-19 on Energy Unmanned Ops
/
There is no doubt that the pandemic has had a considerable impact on all sectors, and the energy / industrial unmanned market finds itself right in the middle of these challenging times.
Read More