Our Head of Marketing and Business Development, Lucia Roca, is featured on the latest episode of Volando con Drones, the Spanish language podcast hosted by Antonio Samper. Season 2, Episode 5 is out today on Spotify.

The conversation gets into the detail of how autonomous drone inspections actually works on a wind turbine. You press play, the drone flies the turbine on its own, and the data comes back for analysis. Lucia talks through why pairing AI with an experienced human reviewer beats either one working alone, and what it takes to capture damage on a blade that most people would walk straight past. The tip of a large blade can travel at close to 350 km/h making each water drop a bullet and a small crack that goes unnoticed can grow into a serious problem. Catching it early is the whole point.

There is plenty from the field too. Offshore lessons: those things  that only make sense once you have flown from a moving boat, a heatwave that pushed wind turbines to its limits, though the drone could continue, and a few stories that never make it into a brochure.

The episode is in Spanish. Give it a listen and let us know what you think.

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