Voliro brings in $23M to accelerate inspection drone development - The Robot Report

Voliro, a Swiss aerial robotics company, has raised an additional $11 million in its Series A funding round, bringing the total to $23 million. This capital injection aims to accelerate the development and global deployment of Voliro’s autonomous aerial inspection robots, designed to modernize infrastructure maintenance, improve industrial safety, and address workforce shortages in inspection fields. The company’s flagship product, the Voliro T platform, features a patented tiltable-rotor design and interchangeable sensor payloads, enabling scalable, data-driven inspections of hard-to-reach industrial assets such as flare stacks, storage tanks, wind turbine blades, and transmission towers. Voliro’s technology targets aging infrastructure, where traditional inspection methods are costly, infrequent, and risky. By enabling faster, safer, and more frequent inspections—such as performing wind turbine lightning protection system checks up to five times faster—Voliro helps reduce downtime and inspection costs by up to 50%. The company has established a global footprint with over 40 customers in