Founded in November 2016 by software industry veterans, Clobotics is a computer vision technology company with offices around the world.
Clobotics’ end-to-end solutions combine computer vision, artificial intelligence/machine learning, and data analytics software with different hardware form factors, including autonomous drones, mobile applications and other IoT devices. Our solutions help companies automate time-intensive and often dangerous operational processes, increasing efficiencies and improving business performance through the use of real-time, data-driven insights and analysis.
We are currently serving enterprise customers in the retail and wind power industries. We are proud to have industry leaders such as Coca-Cola, Procter & Gamble, General Electric and Vattenfall as our partners. Recently, Clobotics was named to the CNBC Upstart 100 List. In the latest BloombergNEF report on computer vision, Clobotics was also highlighted as an important computer vision solution provider for the industrial sector.
Our Mission
Clobotics Values
Curious
Always asking questions and seeking a deeper understanding
Positive
The glass is always half full for "Clobotiators!"
Growth, Resilience, Instinct, Tenacity (GRIT)
We are big fans of Peak Learning's AQ measure and GRIT framework
Meet a Clobotiator Series
Alex Poulsen - Inspection Technician
Alex grew up in Esbjerg, Denmark. He began working for Clobotics doing data handling, but soon found himself flying drones and conducting inspections all over the world. Alex is inspired by the challenge of doing something better each time he attempts it.
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Claire Chen - Chief Operating Officer
Claire knew from the time she was three years old that she wanted to be a business woman!
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Tianyi Pan - Computer Vision/Machine Learning (CVML) Engineer
Tianyi was all set to be a film maker and then AlphaGo beat the world’s best Go player and he was inspired to make a change.
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Lisa Emily Petersen - Video Editor
Lisa is our itinerant video editor, making amazing video content for Clobotics as she travels around Europe in her “little blue van.”
Company History
NOV
2016
George Yan, Claire Chen, Yan Ke and Zhao Li found Clobotics as a computer vision company.
JUNE
2017
Initial $5 million of capital raised.
OCT
2018
Launch of initial Windspector blade inspection service.
2018
Clobotics lands first contract with Coca Cola in China.
JUNE
2019
Windspector v2 releases to market
Mar / Aug
2020
Clobotics acquires AtSite and FineTune adding European and Wind expertise
JUNE
2020
Clobotics launches v3.0 of blade inspection service, passes 9,000 turbines inspected worldwide
MAR
2021
Pre-B investment round raises $64MM.
Apr
2021
Clobotics Wind Services launches v4.0 of our Clobotics IBIS drone.
Join the Clobotics Team
Clobotics is a technology and mission driven company that is always looking for people inspired by our journey and interested in joining us.
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Recent 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 […]
In the Press
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 […]
In the Press
2022 End of Year Review
We recently completed our look back on a very successful 2022 inspection season around the world. Across our global regions, we inspected over 32,000 wind turbines bringing the cumulative total to over 75,000 wind turbines inspected worldwide by our technology! We did some analysis of these inspections and thought we’d share a few top-line observations […]
In the Press
POV: Why DaaS beats DIY blade inspections
From the minute they appeared, camera drones joined the arsenal of tools which enterprising site operators use to figure out what’s going on with their wind turbine blades. And for good reason. Buying an off-the-shelf camera drone has become less expensive over time, becoming an expense more easily afforded within existing budgets. A “Do-It-Yourself” (DIY) […]
In the Press
Case Study: Drones with brains and shelves with eyes — digitalizing the physical world
1st November 2018: In the wind energy sector, the usual way to inspect wind turbines is to send a five-person team up each tower. The technicians use ropes and harnesses to make their way up and down the blades, which could be from 40 to 80 meters long. They visually inspect each one while dangling […]