We are happy to announce Kevin Lind, our CTO, will be one of the speakers in Blades Europe. His presentation will focus on in-housing inspections and using economic estimates for blade damage repair prioritisation

He will be speaking on the second day of the summit (29th April) at 12.10-12:30. Don’t miss the date!

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The paper looks at how automated inspection systems can support three critical steps in blade management:

• Damage detection
  • Technical assessment
  • Economic optimisation of repairs

The goal is straightforward: help operators understand which damages require immediate intervention and which can be monitored over time.

Inspection data alone is not enough. What matters is turning that data into decisions that balance safety, availability and maintenance cost.

Our thanks to the authors and editors for the opportunity to contribute to the discussion around how AI can support better maintenance strategies across the wind sector.

Read the article here: https://www.lanuovaecologia.it/qualenergia-science/karachaliou-lind-roca-2-2026/

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LPS inspections provide confirmation of LPS issues but require a specific visit and are expensive.

With Eve, our compact autonomous drone, site managers gain the flexibility to perform on-demand visual inspections anytime, especially after a storm. When signs of a lightning strike appear, Eve can quickly capture high-quality imagery of affected blades, helping teams pinpoint which blades will require LPS checks with additional systems.

What makes this especially powerful is the ability to pair LPS inspections with visual blade assessments, creating a more complete picture of blade health while keeping costs under control.

Autonomous visual inspections empower wind farm teams to detect issues early, reduce downtime, and ensure safer, more reliable operations.

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We’re pleased to confirm that Perceptual Robotics has once again renewed its ISO certifications for:

ISO 9001 – Quality Management
ISO 45001 – Health and Safety
ISO 14001 – Environmental Management

These audits look closely at how companies actually operate: processes, safety culture, environmental impact and continuous improvement.

For a technology company working in wind turbine inspections, those standards matter. Our systems operate around large infrastructure, in demanding environments, and often within strict operational procedures.

Renewing these certifications shows that the way we build, deploy and support our technology continues to meet internationally recognised standards.

The paperwork might stay behind the scenes.
The impact is very real.

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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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We welcome any owner in the region to reach out to get a quote for inspections in the area with our Customer local team.

Reach out for more information here!

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This year, our presence will be more significant than ever – you can find us at stand 9-H118, join the DNV Panel Discussion on Robotics in wind energy, or attend the WindEurope Conference Sessions on Wednesday.

Discover how technology can transform wind turbine maintenance with economic-based prioritization for blade damage management.

Our CEO, Kostas Karachalios, will present on April 22nd, showing how operators can detect high-priority repairs and allocate budgets where they have the most impact.

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

Session: From cables to blades: smarter monitoring & management

🗓️Wednesday, 22nd April 2026 

⏱️ 11:30-13:00

📍Conference room: N107 + 108

Don’t miss this opportunity to see how smarter decision-making can improve both efficiency and cost-effectiveness. (Abstract: here )

You can also visit us in our Stand: 9-H118.

Reach out for a discount code on the Exhibition tickets!

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We have been working with Indian customers for years now, through our Data Processing Platform which helps them process their manual drone inspections data reliably and with fast report turnaround.

Now this collaboration has extended to the field inspections, and while many inspections are still done manually in India, for our Customer now it is an automated process, allowing them to achieve consistent quality in the inspections, regardless of the pilot experience. It also allows inspecting the turbine with just a single rotor stop, which decreases downtime and hassle regarding positioning each blade up.

Eve continues deploying worldwide and showing its capabilities in all environments.

Reach out for more information here!

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Forward-thinking Owners and Operators and Independent Service Providers (ISPs) are no longer relying on a single drone unit.

They are investing in multiple Dhalion systems, not just to increase capacity, but to gain control, consistency, and resilience across their operations.

From Outsourced to In-House And Then to Scaled Capability

Several asset owners initially began with outsourced inspections as proof of concept.

For example, one of our in-house customers, first completed 30 inspections through an external Dhalion service model. Shortly after, they brought inspections in-house and acquired one Eve Dhalion unit for their teams in the North of Europe. 

Why do people move in-house?

• To empower local site managers or regional blade teams
• To ensure data consistency across the entire fleet
• To gain control and  strengthen accountability with OEMs and repair providers
• To gain speed and reduce bottlenecks

The result? Faster decision-making, full access to raw and processed  imagery, and improved accountability across manufacturers, operators, and repair contractors.

But once inspections are internalised, the next question becomes strategic:

Why Some Owner and Operator Clients Are Moving to More Than One Unit?

Owning a single drone system gives control.

Owning multiple units gives scale and operational resilience.

For fleet owners operating across different regions or countries, multiple Dhalion units mean:

• Inspecting assets in parallel across geographies (or even in the same one, as we did in As Somozas, 40 WTGs in two days)
  
• Enable local teams to take advantage of a short weather window and complete more inspections in parallel in a single site
• Have readily available drones in multiple sites for emergency inspections when required after a big storm or if your technicians notice/hear something you need to inspectMaintaining identical methodology and AI-driven classification everywhere
  

Consistency matters. When inspections are performed with the same hardware, same flight automation, and same AI platform, comparison across assets becomes reliable, not subjective.

For multi-country operators, having in-house drones eliminates the dependency on third-party schedules and reduces bottlenecks caused by logistics or weather windows.

 One of the most transformative advantages for owners with multiple units is autonomy. A high level of responsiveness is only possible when inspection capacity is always available.

No waiting for external mobilisation.
No competing priorities.
No limited reporting formats.

Just a continuous, data-driven loop between inspection, analysis, and repair management.

Capacity Is Strategy for Independent Service Providers (ISPs)

For ISPs managing hundreds of inspections per year, scale and deliverables are not optional, they are contractual and strategic.

Take a company  delivering:

• 500+ inspections per year
• 6-month campaigns across entire fleets
  

Now imagine responding to additional tenders covering hundreds or even thousands of turbines with strict contractual deadlines, all within the season.

A single drone system can become a bottleneck.

Multiple Dhalion units allow service providers to:

• Duplicate capacity instantly
• Deploy teams in parallel across different regions or in the same one, as one of our clients did in Italy
• Extend scope mid-campaign when clients unexpectedly expand requirements
• Maintain delivery even if one unit requires servicing
• Mitigate logistical risks, such as battery transport constraints between countries

Redundancy becomes a risk management strategy.

More Units, Same Standard

Importantly, adding more units does not dilute quality, it standardises it. With automated flight paths and AI-assisted damage detection, teams across different geographies can produce consistent, high-definition data sets.

This enables:

• Fleet-wide benchmarking
• Transparent reporting
• Faster inspection-to-decision cycles (as seen with up to 2× improvement in some transitions from outsourced models)
• Improved energy yield through earlier detection of erosion and structural issues

Scaling With Confidence

For asset owners, multiple Dhalion units mean control and accountability across regions.

For ISPs, they mean flexibility, competitive strength in tenders, and resilience under tight deadlines.

In both cases, the decision to expand from one unit to several is not simply about increasing inspection numbers.

It is about:

• Protecting revenue
• Reducing downtime risk
• Strengthening data ownership
• Building long-term operational independence

As fleets grow and expectations tighten, inspection capability is no longer just a technical tool.

It is a strategic asset.

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