Cleo Robotics, which claims to be the first company to successfully develop a stable and highly maneuverable ducted bi-rotor drone, has launched its Dronut X1 for law-enforcement, industrial inspection, construction and defense markets. Cleo’s patented thrust vectoring technology has, for the first time ever, made the hyper-efficient ducted fan design stable in flight. The Dronut’s completely [...]
Percepto, pioneering autonomous inspection by industrial robotics, announced today the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approved Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) operations for Delek US Holdings’ refineries in Tyler, Texas and El Dorado, Arkansas. Percepto drones inspected its facilities and provided visual data management and analysis. The approval makes Delek US’s refineries the first to receive [...]
Edmund Optics®, a leading global manufacturer and supplier of optical components, has constructed an in-house laser damage testing lab to verify that laser optics will function as intended in customers' laser applications. This internal testing allows Edmund Optics to provide guaranteed laser-induced damage threshold (LIDT) specifications and fine tune processes to manufacture higher-LIDT optics. The LIDT [...]
Deeptech startup Planys Technologies, which provides cutting-edge technologies for infrastructure asset integrity monitoring, announced it has raised $1.6 million as part of its ongoing pre-Series A funding. The round saw participation from global investor network Keiretsu Forum, LetsVenture, Shell, existing investors such as ONGC Startup Fund, Ranjan Pai’s MEMG Family Office, Kris Gopalakrishnan, co-founder, Infosys alongside [...]
Inge-Mark is a small service company based in the Province of Santander in Colombia. Founded by Omar Garza in 2014, Inge-Mark was initially based in Barrancabermeja. Four years ago, the company moved to Bucaramanga, 100 km further to the east. The company specializes in radiographic testing of welds. "Our main tasks are field inspections of welds on [...]
JIREH releases contact point corrosion scanner EDMONTON, AB, CANADA: JIREH is pleased to announce a two probe scanner developed for pitch-catch techniques such as phased array inspection of corrosion under pipe support (CUPS). The STIX – 2 PROBE PA-CAT provides a complete AOD (axial, outside diameter) and COD (circumferential, outside diameter) solution for PA-CAT inspection. Designed [...]
TÜV Rheinland, a global leader in independent technical services, has announced the opening of its newest testing services laboratory in West Unity, Ohio (USA). Specializing in nondestructive and destructive testing services for industry sectors including automotive, aviation/aerospace and infrastructure, TÜV Rheinland of North America’s (TRNA), northwest Ohio facility is well-equipped to provide a full range of [...]
Percepto, pioneering autonomous inspection with industrial robotics, announced today the launch of its upgraded 2022 Autonomous Inspection & Monitoring (AIM) platform and its new Air Mobile drone. Recently listed in TIME magazine's 100 Best Inventions of 2021, Percepto offers the only end-to-end solution powered by AI to collate and streamline all visual data for accurate actionable [...]
MUNICH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nanotronics, developer of nSpec®, the world’s most advanced robotic microscope for industrial inspection, today unveiled nSpec Macro Standalone at SEMICON Europa, the largest European electronics platform connecting industry leaders across the entire design and manufacturing supply chain. This latest addition within the nSpec® portfolio enables automatic capture and analysis of images to detect and quantify [...]
Today the value of drone thermal imagery is being demonstrated in a number of compelling ways. For instance, according to DJI’s Drone Rescue Map, 776 people over the course of 444 rescues in 36 countries worldwide have been saved by drone technology, many of which were equipped with thermal cameras. Adoption of thermal technology in applications [...]