by dankeelan | Jan 5, 2023 | Robots, Wind
Aerones uses robots to repair, inspect, clean, and ice-proof wind turbines, and the Latvia-based startup just raised $38.9 million in funding. TechCrunch reported that the funding was raised this month “from dozens of undisclosed investors.” And according to...
by dankeelan | Jan 5, 2023 | Energy, Wind
Germany produced a record amount of electricity from wind on Wednesday, helping to reduce the need to burn fossil fuels as Europe battles an energy crisis. The nation’s wind farms generated 50,232 megawatts, according to data from the European Energy Exchange....
by dankeelan | Apr 28, 2022 | Robots, Wind
A strange byproduct of writing about robots all the time is getting strange bits of insight into jobs you’d never really considered. Like, it makes sense, certainly, that it’s someone’s job to inspect and clean wind turbines, but the thought had never really crossed...
by dankeelan | Mar 3, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles, Drones, Wind
Singapore’s marine logistics firm Marco Polo Marine has signed an agreement with F-drones, a company developing large scale autonomous delivery drones, to co-develop the world’s first large-scale, electric aerial delivery drones for offshore wind farms. ...
by dankeelan | Jul 29, 2021 | Drones, Featured, Wind
Last summer, at a wind farm close to Washington state’s southern border, an autonomous drone levitated 80 meters to the top of a wind tower and maneuvered along one of its blades. There, just near the tip, it detected a small gash—too small for the naked eye. Had it...
by dankeelan | Jul 8, 2021 | Climate, Oceanography, Solar, Wind
The most advanced autonomous buoy ever developed in the UK has been launched off the coast of Devon to monitor the health of our oceans. Plymouth Marine Laboratory has spent two years building the near nine-metre tall buoy, which is packed with sensors and...
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