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Voliro T

Voliro

Contact inspection drone that measures wall thickness at height with ultrasonic and EMAT probes

25
Deployments: 12
Companies that ran it

How it works on your site

The Voliro T is a tiltable-rotor inspection drone that holds a non-destructive testing probe in contact with steel at height, pressing with a vendor-stated force of up to 30 N while its rotors pitch through ±90°. Interchangeable payloads cover ultrasonic wall thickness, high-temperature ultrasonics to 260 °C, couplant-free EMAT, coating thickness, pulsed eddy current through insulation and wind turbine lightning-protection continuity, all on in-service assets: flare stacks, storage tanks, cement kilns, transmission towers and turbine blades. A pilot flies takeoff, transit, approach and the measurement itself, with a supervised final approach standard on hardware v6; Voliro AG has shipped the T since its November 2022 launch, on subscription only, with 25 deployments on RIC's record.

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Field outcomes

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EnerTrans used Voliro T with a dry film thickness gauge to measure protective coating thickness on operational transmission towers in Switzerland, inspecting 10+ towers per day in single person operation.

380 kV transmission tower coating inspection, Switzerland

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Bilfinger's crew used Voliro T with a UT payload to inspect a 400 ft stack at a customer's facility in Missouri, completing it in 1.5 days with a two-person crew instead of 25 days with scaffolding.

400 ft stack inspection, USA

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Acuren used Voliro T with a high-temperature UT probe to complete 26 heater and flare stack inspections at a Kansas refinery in 14 days; at least four stacks showed significant wall loss.

Refinery heater and flare stack campaign, USA

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AssetTech used Voliro T with an LPS probe for wind turbine lightning protection system inspections in Brazil, cutting inspection time from one day to 30 minutes per turbine with two staff instead of three.

Wind turbine LPS service, Brazil

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Voliro T was used with a UT sensor to inspect the outside of five storage tanks in Switzerland in one day for an undisclosed client, at 75 minutes per tank with 8 scanlines.

Storage tank inspection (outside), Switzerland

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Who has run it

25 deployments · 12 companies · 10 countries

Will it work on your site

Site Preparation: Assembly in under 5 minutesThree Peli cases; probe calibrated before take-off
Power Source: BatterySmart Battery, 20-second hot swap
Control Interface: Remote controller plus pilot and inspector tabletsVoliro App shows a live A-scan
Positional Accuracy: 20 mmTrained pilot, normal conditions (vendor-stated)
Payload Capacity: 1.0 kg

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