{"id":"57f9785c-f02e-4084-95e0-ea04764fea34","companyId":"aa066e04-87a2-4717-8df5-5460bb344bd9","modelName":"Percepto Air (AIM)","slug":"percepto-air","description":"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.","formFactor":"aerial","maturityStage":"commercial","lifecycleState":"active","supersededByModelId":null,"specs":{"notes":[{"label":"Verified (strongest BVLOS story of the commercial set)","value":"Percepto (Israeli) is an autonomous industrial-inspection drone-in-a-box company. 2021: among the first to receive an FAA BVLOS waiver for fully-autonomous drone-in-a-box ops without on-site personnel (a category first). Jun 2023: nationwide FAA waiver for autonomous BVLOS at US critical-infrastructure sites without site-specific approvals. Nov 2023: FAA waiver to operate up to 30 drones with a SINGLE operator, no on-site pilots/radar ('the holy grail'). Named customer: Delek US (energy)."},{"label":"Operating model: captive RaaS","value":"Sells the drone-in-a-box hardware but the value is the recurring AIM monitoring/inspection software-and-operations service; Percepto holds the regulatory authorizations and runs remote operations. Closer to robotics-as-a-service than a pure hardware sale."},{"label":"AI-substance: strong (FAA-validated)","value":"The FAA's willingness to grant 30-drones-per-operator, no-on-site-personnel waivers is itself external validation of the autonomy stack; AIM's AI analysis is the core product. Substance, not marketing. Verified BVLOS is the gating event and Percepto clears it most deeply in the commercial set."},{"label":"Claimed but NOT verified","value":"Total deployed sites / drones-in-operation + recurring revenue (not independently confirmed); a 'shielded airspace within 50 feet of structures' framing appears in some coverage but was not in the Nov 2023 waiver source checked (verify which waiver carries it); customer count beyond named examples is company-sourced. (Part 108 BVLOS rule is still proposed as of mid-2026; current ops run on Part 107 waivers/authorizations.)"}],"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)"},"manufacturerSerial":null,"reviewStatus":"reviewed","sources":[{"url":"https://percepto.co/percepto-raises-67m-series-c-receives-faa-waiver-ushering-in-new-era-of-autonomous-drone-inspections-at-industrial-sites/","title":"Percepto $67M Series C + nationwide FAA BVLOS waiver (Jun 2023)","sourceName":"Percepto (official)"},{"url":"https://dronelife.com/2023/11/29/percepto-receives-waiver-to-operate-30-drones-autonomously-the-holy-grail-of-industrial-drone-inspections/","title":"Percepto FAA waiver: 30 drones, single operator, no radar (Nov 2023)","sourceName":"DroneLife"},{"url":"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","title":"Percepto Series C + FAA waiver (Koch Disruptive Technologies-led)","sourceName":"Percepto (PR Newswire)"},{"url":"https://percepto.co/drone-in-a-box/","title":"Percepto Air + base (drone-in-a-box; AIM autonomous inspection platform)","sourceName":"Percepto (official)"}],"aliases":["Percepto Air","Percepto AIM","Percepto drone-in-a-box"],"collisionRisk":"low","reviewNote":null,"manufacturerTermForTeleop":null,"createdAt":"2026-06-03T20:36:14.553Z","updatedAt":"2026-06-03T20:36:14.553Z","jsonLd":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Product","@id":"https://registry.deploy.report/models/percepto-air","url":"https://registry.deploy.report/models/percepto-air","name":"Percepto Air (AIM)","alternateName":["Percepto Air","Percepto AIM","Percepto drone-in-a-box"],"description":"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.","identifier":"57f9785c-f02e-4084-95e0-ea04764fea34","category":"aerial","publisher":{"@id":"https://deploy.report/#organization"}}}