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Voliro Raises $23M to Expand Aerial Robotics for Infrastructure Inspection

With growing demand for safer, faster, and smarter inspections, Voliro’s tiltable-rotor drones lead the shift toward autonomous industrial maintenance Voliro Secures Funding to Scale Autonomous Aerial Robots Zurich-based aerial robotics company Voliro has announced the successful extension of its Series A funding round, raising a total of $23 million. Backed by venture capital firms Cherry […]

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This Drone Steals Power from the Nearest Power Lines to Charge Its Battery and Keep Flying

Fast Company calls it a “vampire drone,” but the drone developed by a team of researchers at the University of Southern Denmark is designed to find and suck power, not blood.   Dramatic headlines aside, the idea has significance for industrial drone flight beyond visual line of sight.  With many drones still limited by relatively […]

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