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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.

It's impressive to build a drone that can fly well. The true challenge is to create one that a critical operator can rely on, when the mission cannot fail.