Energy Drone & Robotics Coalition

10/10/2025

🍳 Culture Eats Tech for Breakfast 🥞

At the 2025 Energy Drone & Robotics Summit, leaders from PEMEX, Dow, Oxy, Ineos, Osprey Integrity, and MFE Inspection Solutions agreed: the toughest barrier to innovation isn’t tech—it’s culture.

From trust and transparency to proving ROI, the message was clear: start small, share wins, and keep safety and savings front and center.

Read the full recap from Autonomy Global, published by Dawn Zoldi (P3 Tech Consulting). 👇 https://hubs.la/Q03N2WVR0

In the high-stakes energy industry, the push for safer, faster, and more reliable inspections has never been more urgent. Yet, even as drones, robotics, and advanced analytics promise to transform the field, the biggest hurdle isn’t technology—it’s culture. The journey from skepticism to seaml...

10/09/2025

The Energy Drone & Robotics Forum speaker lineup has landed! 💥

Join us November 12th at The Ion in Houston, TX, for a day packed with groundbreaking innovation, insights, and real-world impact across industrial drone, robotics, and AI operations. Matthew Alberts of Southern Company, Steven Treviño of Shell, and Nitin Gupta of Flytbase are just a few of the visionaries and industry pioneers leading the charge in energy and autonomous technologies in Houston next month.

Do you have your ticket yet? 🎫 Secure a limited spot before they're gone! https://hubs.la/Q03MZPx80

10/09/2025

Blue Marble Geographics is taking vegetation monitoring to new heights, literally. By combining drone mapping with advanced point cloud analysis, they’re helping utilities and environmental teams detect risky overgrowth around infrastructure before it sparks safety or reliability issues.

Drone mapping and point cloud vegetation analysis help assess fire risks with Blue Marble Geographics software.

10/07/2025

The Energy Drone & Robotics Newsletter has landed directly in your inboxes and it's jam-packed with the latest industrial drone, robotics, digital twin, and AI news. Get updates like:

🌟 Energy Takes Flight: Record-Breaking Drone Wins of 2025
🌳 Branching Out: Vegetation Fire Risk Assessment 2.0
😎 AI-Powered Bots Install 500,000 Solar Panels Ahead of Schedule in Australia
🔋 KULR Technology Group, Inc. Launched Next Gen Battery Management System
🐙 DeepSea Merge: 3D at Depth Gets a New Identity After Recent Aquisition
🍕 Robots Take a Bite Out of Chicago with Uber Eats Delivery Bots

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10/07/2025

A new survey from Verizon’s Frontline program indicates that public safety agencies are preparing for a major shift in technology adoption. The 2025 Verizon Frontline Public Safety Communications Survey shows that nearly half of first responders expect to use drones and robotics on a daily basis within the next five years, compared with only a small portion who do so today.

https://hubs.la/Q03LHCJL0

10/06/2025

Inspections could be thought of like the broccoli of energy asset management—mandatory, not exactly exciting, and mostly done to check a box. But with new technologies, inspection data has graduated to steak-and-potatoes status: essential, actionable, and impossible to ignore. 🚁

Here’s why:
💡 Beyond Compliance
🛠️ New Tools, New Insights
📈 Integrated for Impact
🌎 Real-World Wins
🖼️ The Bigger Picture

Read the full story on drones’ role in energy asset management in T&D World: https://hubs.la/Q03LPXqG0

10/05/2025

Dusty Robotics announced that it will use Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division’s Leica Absolute Tracker AT500, powering the next era of file to field construction ex*****on. 🏗️
https://bit.ly/4mKS0QK

10/04/2025

Nvidia Corp. has teamed up with Abu Dhabi’s Technology Innovation Institute to establish a cutting-edge research lab focused on AI and robotics. This joint venture marks the Middle East’s first such facility, aiming to pioneer next-generation AI models, humanoid systems, and autonomous platforms. 🤖
https://bit.ly/42Q7hZs

10/03/2025

The United States has opened a national security investigation into imports of robotics and industrial machinery. The Trump administration launched these investigations under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act, according to Bloomberg. The potential for tariffs on robotics and industrial machinery - specifically medical devices - could potentially affect U.S. manufacturing reshoring efforts.

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10/02/2025

Autonomous robots are moving beyond traditional automation, using AI and advanced sensors to patrol rigs, inspect assets, and handle dangerous tasks once reserved for humans—saving time, improving safety, and easing workforce pressures. From ANYbotics’ four-legged ANYmal to drones and underwater systems, these machines are quickly shifting from experimental tools to trusted coworkers in the energy sector.

Autonomous robots are getting more independent and transforming energy operations—boosting safety, efficiency, and uptime.

10/01/2025

Have you heard?! 😮 The latest Energy Drone & Robotics News has hit your inbox, and this week's news is a banger! It's chock-full of the latest industrial drone, robotics, digital twin and AI news. Trust us, you don't want to miss this issue with updates like:

⁉️ Inspection Data: Does Your Team Have What It Needs?
🔎 Nuclear Inspections: How Drones Deliver Big Gains
💡 The Robots Are Ready: How Energy Is Embracing Autonomy
🤖 Robotics & AI: Nvidia's Latest Move
🚑 First Responders & Drones: Expect Daily Use Within 5 Years
🤑 Flybotix's $10M Win: The Future of Confined-Space Inspections
💰 ANYbotics & Climate Investment: A New Era for Autonomous Inspections

If you haven't yet, subscribe now to stay in-the-know on all things industrial drone and robotics, and make sure you read this week's issue STAT. (linked in the comments) https://hubs.la/Q03LPR6Z0

10/01/2025

Dominion Energy is transforming nuclear plant inspections with drone technology, cutting condenser inspection time from eight days to just eight hours while saving over $200,000 per shutdown and keeping workers out of hazardous environments. Beyond condensers, drones are reshaping inspections across the energy sector—boosting safety, lowering costs, and enabling data-driven maintenance from nuclear reactors to wind farms and solar arrays.

Dominion Energy is using Flyability’s Elios 3 drone to cut nuclear condenser inspection time from 8 days to 8 hours while improving safety and reducing costs.