Avestec, a Canadian tech company based in Burnaby, has received an award for its flying robot, known as Skyron.
The Clean Resource Innovation Network recognized Avestec for developing tethered flying robots for the inspection of industrial spaces in various industries, including oil and gas, mining and others.
“For years, the inspection of industrial, hard-to-reach spaces has been unsafe, expensive and time-consuming,” read a news release. “Within this context, intelligent robotic inspection emerges as a revolutionary technology that provides accurate contact-based inspection to fulfill industrial inspection standards.”
Avestec’s technology reduces the cost and time of inspection processes, eliminates accessibility challenges, provides an opportunity for in-service inspection, and enhances asset health monitoring to prevent any major environmental incident. In addition to economic and environmental advantages, these robots are eliminating safety concerns due to removing human factors for the inspection of hazardous spaces.
Avestec’s intelligent robotic inspection is supported by Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Based data analysis and asset visualization capabilities, which allows asset owners and service providers to make evidence-based decisions faster and more efficiently.
