None of it needs to cost you data quality, as long as it is planned for. Working with the light rather than against it, adjusting exposure as conditions shift, and building in the flexibility to move when the weather does.

A few things worth planning around:

🕐 less daylight, so tighter scheduling

🌦️ changeable weather and shorter clear windows

☀️ lower sun angles that affect exposure across the blade

Also in an operation mode: do you need to check some repairs done or left undone? Now it is the moment.

The teams that stay consistent through autumn are usually the ones that planned for the conditions rather than reacted to them.

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This time she is not only attending, she is speaking. Her talk is titled ‘La trampa del CAT 3: reinventando la priorizacion de las reparaciones de palas’ (The CAT 3 Trap: rethinking how blade repairs are prioritised).

O&M is where much of the real work on a wind farm happens, long after the turbines go up. It is also where blade condition, inspection planning and repair decisions start to carry serious cost. Those are the conversations we care about most.

If you are going to be there, come along to Lucia’s session, or catch her on the day. She can talk through how autonomous drone inspection with Dhalion and Eve and AI  blade analytics support teams making decisions across their fleets.

📍 Feria de Valladolid, 14 October

🎤 Lucia speaking: «The CAT 3 Trap: rethinking how blade repairs are prioritised»

🤝 Come and see her presentation, or message Lucía Roca Fernández-Vizarra to fix a time to meet 1to1

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Lucía Roca Fernández-Vizarra and Dimitris Nikolaidis from our team will be at Colloque National France Renouvelables with our Dhalion system, and you will find us on stand C4 together with Werover.

Grab your chance to talk about autonomous drone inspection with Dhalion Dot and Eve systems, as well as AI data Processing and analytics and how we support owners, operators and service providers making decisions across their fleets.

The event runs on 7 and 8 October. If you are going to be there, Lucia and Dimitris would be glad to meet.

📍 Stand C4. CFR. Parc floral. Paris

🗓️ 7 to 8 October

🤝 Come and find us, or message us in Linkedin to arrange a time

Looking forward to our first time on the floor in France.

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The show returns to the Hamburg exhibition grounds from 22 to 25 September 2026, bringing the onshore and offshore wind industry together for four days. It is one of the dates we look forward to most, and a good place to talk through the practical side of blade inspection, repair planning and inspection data.

We would be glad to set aside time to meet. If WindEnergy Hamburg is already in your diary, let us know and we will book a slot to talk.

📍 Hall B7 Stand 602- See the map.

🤝 Book a meeting with the team via Linkedin or through our sales@perceptual-robotics.com email

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You can watch as many videos as you like. But until you hold the drone, it stays a bit abstract. The same goes for the flying. People often assume there must be a pilot very focused, fighting the wind with two thumbs on a controller. There isn’t. You press play. The drone does the rest while you keep an eye on it.

That is the part most people want to see with their own eyes, so we are doing something about it.

We are running a Free Demo campaign near Bristol for the first 5 companies interested. If you want to see it in the field rather than on a screen, come along. 

What you will get out of it:

• 📏 A proper look at the drone. Its size, its weight, how it sits in your hand before it goes up.
• ▶️ The launch itself. No manual piloting, no joystick heroics. Start it and watch it work.
• 🌦️ The real conditions. Wind, light, a field that is never as tidy as a brochure photo. You see what is easy and what takes a bit of care.
• 🤝 Time to ask the awkward questions, the ones that only come up when the thing is right in front of you.

Send us a message to info@perceptual-robotics.com with ”DEMO in BRISTOL” in the subject and we will get to you.

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Small cracks, low-contrast marks, early erosion. On a screen full of near-identical white blade images, these are easy to scroll past, especially at volume and under time pressure.

This is where AI-supported analysis for wind turbine damage detection earns its place. It flags the areas worth a closer look, so a blade expert can confirm what matters rather than hunting for it. The judgement stays human. The AI just makes sure less slips through (according to our figures up to 14%).

Why it helps:

🔍 subtle defects get surfaced, not skipped

🧠 consistent flagging across large image sets

👁️experts spend their time confirming, not searching

Catching the small things early is often what keeps them from becoming the expensive things later.

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The programme runs across two days, the 4th and the 11th of September, and brings the offshore renewables community together online for talks and networking. Kostas will be on the agenda on Day 2, the 11th of September.

Why attend? If blade inspection, data quality and optimised repair planning are on your radar, it is a good chance to hear how our AI-supported analysis fit into offshore operations based on a real case, and to ask questions directly.

📅 Save the date Friday, 11th  September, at 11:25 (UTC+1=UK time)

🎤 Kostas presentation: “From damage lists to smart repair decisions: 

AI and the Repair Now Ratio in action on a 38 turbine offshore fleet”

💻 Online, so easy to join from anywhere

Full Agenda and registration: https://tech40.net/ore-agenda

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Based in Sweden, Skyforest is currently one of the most northerly Dhalion operators in our network. The company brings extensive experience from drone operations in forestry, often working in remote locations and demanding environments. That expertise is now being applied to wind turbine inspections.

Two results stand out immediately.

• Using Dhalion, the Skyforest team inspected eight Siemens turbines with 170-metre rotor diameters (85 m blade) in a single ten-hour working day. Considering the size of those turbines, that’s an impressive achievement. (For comparison: An Airbus A380 is 72.7 m long and The Statue of Liberty (ground to torch) is  93 m tall, or consider a blade is equal to 1.7 olympic swimming pools)
• In a different deployment, see the Case Study,  the team was able to spot two cracks just as the drone landed and they were reviewing the images as part of their Q&A Workflow. Spotting those cracks in the field allowed early warning to the operator and mitigation measures put in place in no time.

The project also demonstrates something we’ve seen repeatedly over the years: organisations with strong operational discipline and professional drone workflows adapt exceptionally well to autonomous blade inspections.

Technology matters. People using it matter just as much or even more.

Read the full case study here (PDF DOWNLOAD)  or visit www.perceptual-robotics.com/case-studies/ to see other case studies!

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The Perceptual Robotics team will be attending the event from 21–23 April, and you’ll find us at booth 9-H118.

Our CEO, Kostas Karachalios, will also be taking part in the oral presentations and in one of the conference panels hosted by DNV, discussing our Dhalion system and how automation and AI are changing the way wind turbine inspections and blade maintenance are carried out.

Events like this matter. They bring together operators, OEMs, service providers and technology teams facing the same operational challenges every day. If you’re attending and want to talk about autonomous inspections, blade damage detection, or simply see what our systems can do in practice, come and say hello at Pavillion 9 booth H118.

We’re looking forward to the conversations.

Do not miss Kostas’ presentations:

DNV PANEL: Robotics within wind energy, now and in the future

🗓️Tuesday the 21st April

⏱️ 14:30-15:30

📍 Conference room: N109-110

Presentation: Beyond Severity Categories: Economic-Based Prioritization for Wind Turbine Blade Damage Management

🗓️Wednesday, 22nd April 2026 

⏱️ 11:30-13:00

📍Conference room: N107 + 108 (Session: From cables to blades: smarter monitoring & management)

Reach out for a discount ticket. Contact

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Organized by the Latvian Wind Energy Association, Estonian Wind Power Association and Lithuanian Wind Power Association, it is definitely one of the events to be in the Baltics with our autonomous solutions to inspect wind turbines. 

Meet Kaspars for a chat on how to optimise Repair Prioritisation or Blade Repair Management in our portal or to discover how easy it is to configure our Dhalion autonomous drones for blade inspections.

Contact him via his linkedin profile or reach out through our contact form to schedule a meeting.

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