Deployment
Percepto Air (AIM) at Global (multiple sites)
Percepto, an Israeli company, makes an autonomous industrial-inspection drone-in-a-box system: the Percepto Air drone plus an autonomous base, running the AIM autonomous inspection and monitoring platform that automates capture, AI analysis, and insight for energy, utilities, oil and gas, and mining sites, on more than 120 million dollars of funding including a 67-million-dollar Series C led by Koch Disruptive Technologies in June 2023. It has the strongest verified beyond-visual-line-of-sight story of the commercial drone set: in 2021 it was among the first to receive an FAA BVLOS waiver for fully autonomous drone-in-a-box operations without on-site personnel, in June 2023 it received a nationwide FAA waiver to operate autonomous BVLOS at US critical-infrastructure sites without site-specific approvals, and in November 2023 it received an FAA waiver to operate up to thirty drones with a single operator and no on-site pilots or radar, described as the holy grail of industrial inspection, with Delek US as a named customer.
Its operating model is captive robotics-as-a-service: it sells the drone-in-a-box hardware but the value is the recurring AIM monitoring service, and Percepto holds the regulatory authorizations and runs remote operations. The registry records it at commercial maturity, since verified, repeated, escalating FAA BVLOS authorizations plus named industrial customers clear the gating event most deeply in the commercial set, while noting that total deployed-site and drone counts and recurring revenue are not independently confirmed, and that the Part 108 BVLOS rule remained proposed as of mid-2026 so current operations run on Part 107 waivers.
Percepto Air (AIM) by Percepto · Catalog entry · 1 source · not yet field-verified · Drones
Recent coverage
- Percepto Raises 7M Series C, Receives FAA Waiver for Autonomous Drone InspectionsBen Smith, Deploy Editor · 2023-06-12
- Israeli drone maker Percepto raises 7 million after US regulatory nodBen Smith, Deploy Editor · 2023-06-12
Percepto autonomous drones deployed at industrial sites for inspection and monitoring. FAA nationwide BVLOS waiver received. Partnership with Hellenic Drones for Greece and Cyprus expansion.
Exposure
- Customer segment
- logistics
- Scale tier
- mass 100 999
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Safety record
No incidents on record for Percepto Air (AIM) at Global (multiple sites).
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- Trust tier
- Catalog entry · 1 source · not yet field-verifiedhow tiers work →
- Last updated
- 2026-08-21
- Model
- Percepto Air (AIM)
- Company
- Percepto
- Location
- Global (multiple sites)
- Operator
- Percepto
- Status
- operational
- Operator type
- maker operated
- Scale at site
- 100+ units
- Site environment
- outdoor
- Location precision
- city centroid
- First seen
- 2020-01-01
- ID
717a45cb-a102-43cd-b2cf-1d422176b034
Timeline
- Jan 2020First recordedPercepto Air (AIM) first documented operating at Global (multiple sites).
- Aug 2026Current status: operational, reviewedLatest recorded state. New status transitions append here as the deployment-status recorder produces them.
On the deployment map
Operates worldwide
Percepto Air (AIM) is deployed globally rather than at a single verified site, so there is no map pin.
Percepto Air (AIM) operates in Global (multiple sites). Explore the full verified map:
Sources (1)
- Percepto Raises 7M, Receives FAA Waiver · https://percepto.co/percepto-raises-67m-series-c-receives-faa-waiver-ushering-in-new-era-of-autonomous-drone-inspections-at-industrial-sites/ · 2020-01-01
Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Maturity + lifecycle
Maturity stage: commercial
Lifecycle: active
Architectural position
Cohort: aerial
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
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