After a dull winter, spring finally arrived! 

The birds are singing, the flowers have exploded in a sea of colour and our technicians have dusted off their equipment and are heading out on assignments. Our calendar is chock-full of blade inspections and blade repairs both offshore and onshore – what a wonderful time! 

Autonomous Drone Inspections of Wind Turbine Blades 

Some highlights from our team of professional drone pilots… On one project, our European team inspected 88 of some of the world’s biggest offshore turbines (9.5 MW) and had a few other major assignments with our own vessel working and staying offshore.  

Meanwhile, our North American team inspected an astounding 31 onshore turbines in one day with just one drone and 71 in 3 days on the same project. They also completed a huge 100-turbine project in rural Illinois.   

In-house Experts Developing Cutting-Edge Technology 

Meanwhile, our in-house engineers are hard at work on optimizing our cutting-edge technologies.  

In Denmark, the engineers have celebrated a successful field test of our Top-Secret Project and they continue to improve the product on a daily basis. Clue: it involves a lot of tinkering with actuators.  

Despite the lockdown in Shanghai, our Chinese development team have made incredible progress on our IBIS drone and IRIS portal. Our systems are constantly being analysed and upgraded and this wouldn’t be possible without their hard work.  

Drone as a Service 

Our brilliant sales team have also kept busy, resulting in a host of new DaaS partners all around the world. We warmly welcome companies such as…  

  • Susol (Turkey) 
  • ArthWind (Brazil) 
  • Zupson Service (Romania)

Repairs  

If you didn’t already know, we now have a dedicated repair department and repair season has also begun. Our technicians are away on blade repair projects in Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands. Some of these jobs utilise our own climate-controlled platform for safe and efficient work. More European blade repairs will commence over summer, including offshore rope access jobs.  

Clobotics Wind Services work locations Spring 2022

Other News

In the Press

Clobotics completes $30MM capital raise to fund continued acceleration of business results

Shanghai/Seattle/Denmark – Clobotics announced today that the company has completed its Series Pre-B-4 capital raise and received an additional $30 million of investment towards its goal of “turning sight into insight” for customers in the wind and retail point of sale industries. Clobotics uses computer vision technology to help customers in two industry verticals: For […]

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Clobotics Wind Services Announces Its New Clobotics Crawler™ Robot

Purpose-built for visually inspecting the inside of wind turbine blades Clobotics Wind Services announces availability of its Clobotics Crawler™ (code named KIWI) robot – a device purpose-built for safely, rapidly and cost-effectively documenting the internal condition of wind turbine blades. The device features two high resolution, high dynamic range (HDR) cameras, LED lighting, and a […]

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Announcing Clobotics IBIS™ 4.8

New release improves speed, cost and quality of external visual blade inspections Clobotics Wind Services is now shipping the latest version of its autonomous drone-based inspection system. The 4.8 release of Clobotics IBIS™ leverages the newly released Sony ILX-LR1 commercial camera, along with numerous mechanical and software improvements to deliver a state-of-the-art combination of speed, […]

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2023 End of Year Review

It’s time, once again, for our End of Year Report – aggregate global statistics drawn from our Clobotics IRIS portal system for organizing, analyzing and presenting blade inspection and repair information. This year, we look back on nearly 40,000 wind turbines worth of inspections conducted in 2023 across every region of the globe. This brings […]

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Scaling Up Blade Inspections in Brazil: A Case Study

Brazil is one of the five largest wind markets in the world and growing fast. In the last decade, Brazil has gone from 2.5 GW of installed wind power capacity in 2012 to 22 GW in 2022. Since 2017, ArthWind has helped wind site managers use inspection data to drive their maintenance decision making. As […]

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