With fresh backing from Loggerhead Ventures and renewed trust from One Planet Capital, we’re accelerating what matters most: scaling access to in-house drone operations across the wind industry.

The demand is clear. 

Operators want more control, faster insights, and fewer operational bottlenecks. 

Our technology is built to deliver exactly that. Bringing inspections closer to the asset, reducing downtime, and removing unnecessary complexity.

This investment allows us to:

• Expand the reach of our in-house inspection solutions
• Continue developing tools that put control directly in the hands of site teams
• Support the growing need for efficient, scalable wind turbine maintenance

We’re excited for what’s ahead and grateful to be building it with partners who share our vision for a more efficient, sustainable energy sector.

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Investing early in an upcoming round, we are excited to have them onboard as the group includes a diverse experience of investors from wind farm and solar farm owners, to digital marketing, cybersecurity, construction and other fields along with corporate investors and family offices. 

Their core criteria for joining companies are:

• To focus on deep, disruptive, protectable technologies, which confer defensibility and where the disruptive nature would create a market pull.
• To focus on industries where scalability can be achieved without large capex requirements.
• To focus on technologies which are addressing very large, international markets and are therefore scalable (>1 billion).
• To back high-quality individuals who have credibility, emotional intelligence, who are capable of being coached, and who value what our angels can bring to the table.

This criteria perfectly aligns with our strategy. We are excited to have them backing our approach to applying AI to the wind and other markets, creating the disruptive deep changes O&M and Wind Industry needs to face the efficiency goals of supplying sustainable energy at massive scale.

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Perceptual Robotics enables fully automated wind turbine inspection via its Dhalion drone and AI offering. It combines a fully automated drone without the need for a pilot, with an AI-driven image processing pipeline to detect damages (erosion, cracks) in wind turbine blades. The results of the inspections are combined with a web based tool to manage the inspection and maintenance of the blades for a fleet of assets.

It is an innovative solution, already commercially deployed in a growing number of geographies, that offers clients the ability to reduce costs of repairs and increase production by finding damages earlier, while also upskilling their existing teams to use the latest technologies.

The Dhalion system dramatically reduces turbine downtime, increases safety and cuts maintenance costs.

Perceptual Robotics closed its latest funding round with investment from Susten, a leading name in the energy industry. The investment means the Bristol-based company will be able to continue global expansion to new regions and product lines.

The funding will provide both financial and further support from Susten’s experience in sustainability, energy and operations.

Kostas Karachalios, CEO of Perceptual Robotics said: “We are delighted to bring Susten onboard, which will further enhance our work, allowing us to continue to grow as a business. The investment will enhance our company’s aims by further expanding our talented team and support with our expansion into new markets.”

Perceptual Robotics has benefited from a number of successful funding rounds. This investment completes the latest round of funding secured by Perceptual Robotics earlier this year led by One Planet Capital with the participation of a consortium of international investors such as Metavallon VC, TSP Ventures, Brookstreet Equity Partners and Lstone Capital.

The investments have enabled Perceptual Robotics to begin expanding into Southeast Asia, North and South America as well as growing the global team.

In addition to the latest funding, Perceptual Robotics has also welcomed Chrys Vakla, Deputy CEO of Susten, to its board, bringing a further strategic perspective to the company. Her experience and industry understanding will support the company’s technological advances to push the boundaries of robotics and automation.

Chrys Vakla, Deputy CEO of Susten, said: “After a deep dive into robotic services in the renewable sector by Susten, we identified Perceptual Robotics as the leading company due to its advanced technology and an exceptionally skilled and motivated team. I am delighted to join the Board at Perceptual Robotics and I am confident that together we will continue to grow.”

The collaboration of Perceptual Robotics and Susten represents an effective alignment of vision and shared goals. Susten’s ongoing financial support demonstrates its confidence in Perceptual Robotics’ ability to impact real change in the renewable energy sector. Find more out about Susten here: https://susten.com/

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Perceptual Robotics, which is based in the UK and has sites across Europe, provides technology and services for autonomous wind turbine inspections utilising artificial intelligence and drones. The company will use the pre-Series A round to plan its expansion into North America and Latin America, as well as double its team.

It is the latest step for the Bristol-based company, which earlier this year announced it had launched operations in Southeast Asia.

Kostas Karachalios, CEO of Perceptual Robotics, said: “We are thrilled to announce this latest round of funding.

“2022 revenues were strong and the raise will be used to significantly increase the geographical footprint of our already substantial client base as well as scaling up capacity. We also continue to develop, the raise will help us enhance our product offering and further develop and expand our existing products.

“Perceptual Robotics has a proud history in inspecting and processing data from wind turbines and blades onshore with trusted partners across Europe and the UK. With this latest investment, we look forward to continuing our vital work into offshore inspections and advanced analytics, guaranteeing our customers have everything they need to ensure their assets are delivering time and again.”

Historically, previous investment rounds have enabled Perceptual Robotics to commercialise its products, including the deployment of its DOT drone, its popular self-service offering, which customers pilot themselves to perform inspections.

Investors in this round, led by OnePlanetCapital, include L-Stone Capital together with an additional investment by existing investors; Brookstreet Equity Partners, Deeptech Labs, TSP Ventures and Metavallon VC. As well as benefiting financially, Perceptual Robotics will gain valuable support from OnePlanetCapital’s experience joining the group of PEVC funds backing the company. To date, Perceptual Robotics has the backing of four funds from the UK and two from Europe.

Anthony Chant, Investment Director at OnePlanetCapital, the climate change-focused early-stage venture capital fund, said: “We are delighted to be supporting Perceptual Robotics with their continued growth into new geographies and products. An investment by OnePlanetCapital means so much more than just receiving funding. We look forward to providing Perceptual Robotics with the support and counsel they may need in order to continue to turn their dreams into a success.”

Perceptual Robotics’ self-service software uses autonomous technology to collect high-quality wind turbine data in less than 20 minutes. After landing, an artificial intelligence system automatically processes the images to detect any damage and quickly provides clients with all the information they need to carry out preventive maintenance, dramatically reducing turbine downtime, increasing safety and cutting costs. Perceptual Robotics also offers data-processing services with artificial intelligence to detect damages in images provided by its customers.

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Perceptual Robotics uses drones, advanced robotics and Machine Learning to provide fully autonomous inspections of infrastructure, starting with wind turbines. These inspections identify and analyse defects with greater consistency, greater reliability and reduced costs when compared to current methods. The company has been developing their hardware and software capabilities since 2016 when it was founded at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, while today it also operates from its Athens office. Perceptual Robotics are now carrying out autonomous inspections for some of the largest wind turbine operators in the world.

Chris Smith, CEO at TSP Ventures said, “we are delighted to be joining the team at Perceptual Robotics. Their mission, to reduce costs and improve efficiencies in the wind turbine inspection market, is helping the whole of the wind industry become more efficient and cost effective. At TSP, we love enabling technologies that can help accelerate the transition to renewable energy and a cleaner future for our planet. We look forward to supporting Kostas and the rest of the team as they scale operations internationally.”

Kostas Karachalios, CEO of Perceptual Robotics said, “we are delighted to have raised our latest round, led by TSP Ventures. We have had growing revenues and this new funding will allow us to increase headcount, continue to mature our groundbreaking technology and drive the scale of our sales and marketing activities on the back of our recent successful programmes with clients across Europe. We are fortunate to have been supported in our early funding rounds by Metavallon and with the addition of TSP, Humble Ventures and Angels with deep sector knowledge, we feel we have a very strong investor-base who complement each other well. We are growing our team with system engineers and sales engineers and are looking for exceptional people to join us in Athens and Bristol. We are in a good position to provide excellent services to our clients and new automations for the wind and other industries. The future is both bright and exciting”.

About TSP Ventures
TSP Ventures is an early-stage venture firm focusing on climate and environmental technologies. For more information, visit www.tspventures.co.uk

About Perceptual Robotics
Perceptual Robotics is developing drones and computer vision algorithms for the autonomous detection and analysis of faults on large infrastructure. Their first product Dhalion, is an industry leading autonomous drone for wind turbine inspection. Dhalion brings full end to end inspection capabilities to the market, from data acquisition to defect identification. For more information about Perceptual Robotics, visit www.perceptual-robotics.com

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