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Every company has a defining moment when an idea becomes a commitment. For Embention, that moment came while developing the first version of their drone autopilot. The team paused to evaluate where the industry was heading and reached a clear conclusion: if autonomous aircraft were ever going to operate over urban environments at scale, they would need to meet strict certification requirements. There would be no shortcuts. And that was their 'screw it, we're doing this right

Facility managers, engineers, and architects across commercial inspection verticals have become inundated with data as drone adoption has accelerated. Capturing drone footage of a large asset was only half the battle. The other half, processing and analyzing potentially hundreds of thousands of images, remained a largely manual, time-consuming task. T2D2 was founded with this growing problem in mind.

In the story of Perceptual Robotics, there was no single dramatic “Screw it, let’s build this” moment. They actually began at the University of Bristol, where the three co-founders, Kostas Karachalios, Dimitris Nikolaidis and Kevin Driscoll-Lind, were deep in research when they were approached by Det Norske Veritas (DNV) , the global risk management and quality assurance company.