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Percepto Air (AIM)

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) is an aerial robot built by

Machine-readable surfaces

Form factor
aerial
Maturity stage
commercial
Lifecycle
active
Deployments
0
ID
57f9785c-f02e-4084-95e0-ea04764fea34

Specs

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specs
Percepto Air (drone) + autonomous base ('drone-in-a-box') running the AIM (Autonomous Inspection & Monitoring) platform: automated capture -> AI analysis -> insight. >$120M funding ($67M Series C, Koch Disruptive Technologies-led, Jun 2023; $45M Series B launched AIM).
formFactor
aerial (autonomous industrial-inspection drone-in-a-box; energy/utilities/mining/oil&gas)

Supply chain

No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this model’s suppliers.

Suppliers appear here when verified with at least two strong sources (maker-official / IR / regulatory / standards-body / verified tier-2). Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history.

Sources (4)

  1. https://percepto.co/percepto-raises-67m-series-c-receives-faa-waiver-ushering-in-new-era-of-autonomous-drone-inspections-at-industrial-sites/
  2. https://dronelife.com/2023/11/29/percepto-receives-waiver-to-operate-30-drones-autonomously-the-holy-grail-of-industrial-drone-inspections/
  3. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/percepto-raises-67m-series-c-receives-faa-waiver-ushering-in-new-era-of-autonomous-drone-inspections-at-industrial-sites-301848019.html
  4. https://percepto.co/drone-in-a-box/

Common questions

What is Percepto Air (AIM)?
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.
Who makes Percepto Air (AIM)?
Percepto Air (AIM) is made by Percepto, based in Modiin, Israel, founded in 2014.
Where is Percepto Air (AIM) deployed?
No verified deployments of Percepto Air (AIM) are currently on the DEPLOY registry. DEPLOY records deployments only when verified at a named site with a primary source; absence may reflect pre-deployment, research, or manufacturer-internal use.
What is Percepto Air (AIM)'s maturity stage?
Percepto Air (AIM) is at the commercial stage on the DEPLOY maturity ladder (research, prototype, pilot, commercial, production). Commercial stage means production-grade deployments are operating at named customer sites.