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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📍Our team returns to the Hamburg exhibition grounds from 22 to 25 September 2026, bringing the onshore and offshore wind industry together for four days at Hall B7, Stand 602.

It is one of the dates we look forward to most. The halls are where a lot of the year’s most useful conversations happen, about blade inspections, repair planning, data, and the practical side of keeping turbines working well for longer.

If WindEnergy Hamburg is already in your diary, let us know. We would be glad to book some time to talk.

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Offshore blades are critical, but inspecting them is hard, costly, and infrequent. Today a full campaign means dedicated vessel time and heavy planning.

ADBISOV makes inspection routine: an autonomous drone launched and recovered from a Service Operation Vessel. It’s space-enabled throughout, using satellite connectivity for remote operation, and precise satellite positioning.

The payoff: lower-cost, more frequent inspections → better data, earlier damage detection, smarter repair planning, and improved turbine availability.

We’re delighted to be working with ORE Catapult, the UK’s leading technology innovation and research centre for offshore renewable energy, on the project.

More to come as we progress. 🌊🚁🛰️

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Now the real work begins. It’s an 18-month development programme, followed by a further period of field validation before anything reaches customers: because building useful technology for the wind industry takes far more than a good idea. It requires development, testing, validation in the field and plenty of iteration before a product is ready for everyday use.

Over the coming months, we’ll be working on new capabilities aimed at making blade inspections and maintenance decisions faster, more consistent and easier to scale and starting to look beyond blades at other parts of the turbine too. This includes further developments in autonomous inspections, AI-assisted analysis and the tools that help operators turn inspection data into action.

Some of our most successful developments started with a simple operational frustration.

The Repair Now Ratio (RNR) is a good example. Anyone managing hundreds of blade damages across a fleet knows how quickly repair planning can become a maze of spreadsheets, competing priorities and difficult decisions. RNR was developed to provide a clearer way to prioritise repairs based on risk and economic impact.

That’s often how innovation starts. Not with technology for technology’s sake, but with a practical problem that needs solving.

We’re also growing the team behind this work:  recruiting robotics, flight-test, data and customer solutions roles over the coming months. 

If there’s a task in your workflow that feels unnecessarily slow, repetitive or difficult, we’d love to hear about it. Some of our best ideas have come directly from conversations with people working in the field every day.

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Every Perceptual Robotics contract includes a yearly teardown of the Dhalion system. Our Support team strips it down, cleans it, and reviews the equipment before it heads back out to the field.

🔧 A full annual teardown and clean

🔍 A component-by-component review by our Support team

🛠️ Carried out in our Bristol and Greek workshops

We are the manufacturer, so we take real pride in building systems that are reliable and that perform in the field as expected. Looking after them once they are out there is part of the same job. The team knows each system inside out.

It is the kind of maintenance you rarely think about, right up until it is the reason an inspection went ahead without a hitch.

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24 years ago, a wind turbine in Germany lost a blade during a storm. What makes this case worth studying isn’t the storm, it’s what came out afterward: the operator admitted there had been a known defect in the blade before the storm hit, and it had been ignored.

That single sentence in the incident record is, in miniature, the entire case for predictive blade maintenance:

• A defect existed and was known.
• No system tracked how it was evolving.
• An external load (wind) turned a manageable flaw into a full blade loss.

This is exactly the failure mode that routine drone inspection paired with AI-based damage detection was built to close. A defect flagged once isn’t always useful on its own; what matters is comparing scans over time, quantifying crack or delamination growth rate, and forecasting the load threshold at which that specific defect becomes critical. That turns “known but ignored” into “known, tracked, and scheduled for repair before the next storm season.”

The technology to catch this exists today and it is inexpensive compared to the gains. In 2002, it didn’t yet. The gap between those two facts is the opportunity in front of the industry now.

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When the temperature climbs, inspecting turbines gets harder for everyone: the pilots walking the site, the technicians in full kit, and, we like to think, the drones too.

Somewhere out there, Dot is eyeing up a tiny pair of sunglasses and wondering why the launch point could not have been next to the air conditioning. 🕶️

Jokes aside, heat changes how a day on site runs. 🌡️ Batteries behave differently, kit needs looking after, and planning around the hottest part of the day makes a real difference to both safety and workflow.

How is the heat treating your team this summer?

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