Every ship, pipeline and rail track is always in the midst of a slow fight with corrosion, and the only way to stay ahead of it is to inspect constantly for the cracks and the thinning of metal that comes before a failure.
Much of that inspection is still done by people, often in dangerous, hard-to-reach places: inside tanks, high up on structures, along live rail. , a Noida-based deeptech startup, builds robots to do it instead, and to turn what they find into data an operator can act on.
The stakes are high on both sides of the job.
A missed crack can mean a leak, a derailment or a shutdown; a needless inspection means taking an expensive asset offline.
Better data on what is actually corroding, and how fast, is worth real money to an operator.
