Korial
About
About Korial
Kore provides the intelligence and supervision layer for autonomous industrial work, combining robot control, device and site monitoring, agentic workflows and analysis of incoming telemetry. Connect moves inspection findings and metadata between Korial and external enterprise or plant systems.
Recreate builds spatial digital twins and lets teams test missions and fleet behaviour before live execution, while Sustain covers onboarding and continuing support. Korial coordinates mixed robot and drone fleets in refineries, chemical plants and utility facilities and reports more than one million completed inspections.
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Operations
Operating milestones
- Operating milestone
2025-10-07 - Korial, then operating as Energy Robotics, reported more than one million completed autonomous inspections across industrial operations. - Cumulative autonomous industrial inspections coordinated by the platform - Global
Source
Deployments
- Operating use
2024-09-18 - Energy Robotics deployed autonomous inspection robots in chemical industry environments for monitoring workflows. - industrial customer deployments - chemical industry sites
Source - Operating use
2024-01-18 - Shell Rheinland used Energy Robotics software with two robots and a drone for automated ground-and-air plant monitoring. - single named industrial site - Shell Rheinland
Source - Customer site
2023-06-20 - Energy Robotics deployed autonomous inspection robots at Merck's Darmstadt facility. - single named customer site - Merck Darmstadt facility
Source - Customer site
2020-09-09 - Energy Robotics enabled Boston Dynamics Spot to conduct remote autonomous inspection missions at Merck facilities in Darmstadt. - Energy Robotics software / Spot - Merck facilities in Darmstadt
Source
Supply
Funding
- 2025-10-07 - Series A - $13.5M - Korial raises $13.5 million Series A to scale autonomous inspection
Energy Robotics raised a $13.5 million Series A co-led by Blue Bear Capital and Climate Investment. - source: energy-robotics.com
- 2021-01-12 - Seed - $2.3M - Energy Robotics raises €2 million seed round
Energy Robotics raised €2 million in seed financing to develop and scale its autonomous inspection-robot software platform. - source: energy-robotics.com
Investors
- Ananda Impact Ventures - Lead - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-01-12
- Blue Bear Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-10-07
- Climate Investment - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-10-07
- Fiege - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-01-12
- Futury Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-10-07
- Futury Venture - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-01-12
- Hessen Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-10-07
- Hübner Group - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-01-12
- Kensho - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-10-07
- Tadtech Fund - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-10-07
Team
- Dorian Scholz - Chief Product Officer, Co-founder - Scholz leads product work across web and mobile interfaces, cloud software, and IT security for autonomous industrial operations.
- Maurice Toscani - Chief Commercial Officer, Co-founder - Toscani leads commercial execution for Korial autonomous industrial operations and inspection platform adoption.
- Stefan Kohlbrecher - Chief Technology Officer, Co-founder - Kohlbrecher leads core robotics and AI technology for Korial autonomous inspection and operations software.
- Marc Dassler - CEO - Leads the platform strategy for orchestrating robots, drones and industrial inspection data across critical infrastructure sites.
Timeline
Events
- 2026-05-04 - Org Change - Energy Robotics rebrands as Korial inspection software company
Energy Robotics rebranded as Korial while keeping Energy Robotics GmbH as the legal entity. The new Korial brand positioned the company as an enterprise AI platform for autonomous industrial operations. The rebrand followed industrial deployments across more than 100 sites on five continents.
Source - 2025-10-07 - Funding - Korial raises $13.5 million Series A to scale autonomous inspection
Korial, then operating as Energy Robotics, closed a $13.5 million Series A co-led by Blue Bear Capital and Climate Investment. Futury Capital, Hessen Capital, Kensho VC and TADTech also participated. The company said the financing would accelerate commercial deployment of its autonomous inspection software across energy, chemicals, industrial and security sectors.
Source - 2025-10-07 - Market Signal - Korial reports more than one million autonomous inspections
Korial, then operating as Energy Robotics, said its platform had completed more than one million inspections across five continents. The company reported more than 32,000 hours of hazardous human labor saved across customers including Shell, BP, Repsol, BASF, Merck and E.ON.
Source - 2024-09-18 - Deployment - Energy Robotics deploys inspection robots for chemical industry monitoring
Energy Robotics deployed autonomous inspection robots in chemical industry environments. The robots are used for routine inspection, monitoring and data-driven maintenance workflows. The deployment reinforces Energy Robotics' focus on hazardous and high-value industrial inspection sites.
Source - 2024-06-12 - Partnership - ANYbotics and Energy Robotics partner on inspection-data integration
Partnership links ANYmal inspection robots with Energy Robotics software. The collaboration was announced around ACHEMA 2024. Integration targets asset-monitoring and inspection-data workflows for industrial sites.
Source - 2024-02-12 - Capability - Energy Robotics expands inspection platform for mixed robot and drone fleets
Energy Robotics expanded its platform to support mixed fleets of ground robots and drones. The platform enables unified mission planning, data collection and inspection workflows across heterogeneous systems. The capability supports customers running multiple inspection robot types through one industrial operations layer.
Source - 2024-01-18 - Deployment - Shell Rheinland deploys mixed robot and drone inspection fleet with Energy Robotics
Shell Rheinland used Energy Robotics software with two different robots and a drone for 360-degree plant monitoring. The deployment combined ground and aerial autonomous inspection workflows at Shell's Rheinland site. The project shows Energy Robotics coordinating mixed robot and drone fleets in a live energy-industry environment.
Source - 2023-11-08 - Partnership - Energy Robotics collaborates with Shell on autonomous inspection workflows
Energy Robotics worked with Shell to develop autonomous inspection workflows for industrial sites. The collaboration focuses on using robots for inspection in energy and chemical environments. The partnership builds on Energy Robotics' role as software infrastructure for industrial inspection robots.
Source - 2023-06-20 - Deployment - Energy Robotics deploys autonomous inspection robots at Merck Darmstadt site
Energy Robotics deployed autonomous inspection robots at Merck's Darmstadt facility. The deployment supports routine inspection tasks and data collection in industrial production environments. The project provides a named life-sciences industrial deployment for Energy Robotics' inspection software.
Source - 2022-10-10 - Partnership - Energy Robotics collaborates with European industrial partners on inspection robotics
Energy Robotics worked with industrial partners to expand inspection robotics use cases. The collaboration focused on deploying autonomous inspection systems in real-world industrial environments. The work broadened Energy Robotics' customer and partner base for industrial robot inspection deployments.
Source - 2021-09-01 - Partnership - Energy Robotics joins NVIDIA Inception program
Energy Robotics joined the NVIDIA Inception program for AI startups. The program supports development of AI-driven robotics and inspection software. The membership connected Energy Robotics' inspection platform to NVIDIA's AI and robotics startup ecosystem.
Source - 2021-06-25 - Partnership - Energy Robotics and ExRobotics integrate ExR-2 for hazardous industrial inspections
ExR-2 is IECEx and ATEX certified for inspection tasks in potentially explosive industrial environments. The integration pairs Energy Robotics fleet software with a hazardous-area robot for oil, gas and chemical sites.
Source - 2021-01-12 - Funding - Energy Robotics raises €2 million seed round
Seed: EUR 2,000,000. Ananda Impact Ventures led or provided the financing. Energy Robotics raised €2 million in seed financing to develop and scale its autonomous inspection-robot software platform.
Source - 2020-09-09 - Deployment - Merck pilots autonomous Spot inspections with Energy Robotics software
Energy Robotics announced a pilot enabling Boston Dynamics Spot to conduct remote autonomous inspection missions at Merck facilities. The pilot focused on monitoring thermal exhaust plants at Merck's Darmstadt site. The deployment tied Energy Robotics software to a named pharmaceutical industrial site and a fielded quadruped inspection workflow.
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Notes
Profile notes
- Korial is Energy Robotics after a shift from autonomous inspection to a broader industrial-intelligence layer
reviewed 2026-07-20 - Energy Robotics adopted the Korial name in May 2026 after expanding beyond its original robotics-focused and energy-sector identity. The same company still coordinates robots and drones, but now presents them as data-capture endpoints within a hardware-agnostic, cross-industry enterprise AI platform linking fleets, sites and industrial analysis. The rebrand therefore marks a completed strategy broadening rather than a new company, an exit from robotics or replacement of the deployed robot fleet.
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Relations
Relationships
- ANYbotics
Inspection Data Integration - ANYbotics and Energy Robotics partner on inspection-data integration
- ExRobotics
Technology Partner - Energy Robotics describes ExRobotics as a hardware partner for ATEX/IECEx inspection robots using Energy Robotics software.
- Merck
Pilot Customer - Energy Robotics enabled Spot autonomous inspection missions at Merck facilities.
Context
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Context tags
- Robotics digital-twin workflows - Workflow - https://www.korial.com/enterprise-ai-platform - exact reviewed source supports this bounded company context.
- Autonomous inspection - Workflow - https://www.korial.com/enterprise-ai-platform - exact reviewed source supports this bounded company context.
- Scaled fleet operations - Commercial Stage - https://www.energy-robotics.com/post/energy-robotics-secures-series-a-funding--to-scale-critical-infrastructure-inspections-with-ai-robotics - exact reviewed source supports this…
- Robot fleet operations - Capability - Energy Robotics provides fleet management and robot management software for inspection robots and drones.
- Robotic inspection software - Stack Layer - Energy Robotics provides AI software for autonomous robots and drones to inspect facilities.
- Inspection data analytics - Capability - Energy Robotics turns inspection robot and drone data into actionable insights and alerts.
- Inspection software platform - Stack Layer - Energy Robotics provides hardware-agnostic inspection software, robot brain, cloud fleet management and analytics.
- Industrial facilities - Customer Environment - Energy Robotics targets large-scale industrial facilities for automated inspection.
- Autonomous robot fleet operations - Capability - https://www.korial.com/enterprise-ai-platform - exact reviewed source supports this bounded company context.
- Multi-Robot Fleet Management - Stack Layer - https://www.korial.com/enterprise-ai-platform - exact reviewed source supports this bounded company context.
- Energy and utilities - Customer Environment - Automated industrial inspection software is positioned for energy and asset-heavy operators.
- Commercial deployment - Commercial Stage - Energy Robotics has public commercial software and customer-facing inspection platform materials.
