Product profile
Sparrow
Sparrow is Percepto’s ruggedized autonomous drone-in-a-box system for industrial inspection, mapping, security and emergency response. Official material sp...
Facts
- Company
- Percepto
- Product type
- uav
- Status
- commercial
- Primary capability
- persistent autonomous industrial inspection
- Website
- https://percepto.co/environmental-monitoring/
About Sparrow
Sparrow is Percepto’s ruggedized autonomous drone-in-a-box system for industrial inspection, mapping, security and emergency response. Official material specifies a 9.5 kg drone, 152 cm diagonal propeller-tip span, dual 4K and thermal payloads and an integral parachute.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Autonomous inspection drone-in-a-box
Core: Rugged persistent industrial inspection system
Function: Collects scheduled or on-demand aerial data without a local pilot
Audience: Industrial, energy, mining, utility and security operators
Specifications
- camera_payload
- Dual 4K and thermal cameras
- communications
- Secure LTE and point-to-point communications
- diagonal_propeller_tip_span_cm
- 152 cm cm
- ingress_protection
- IP55 IP rating
- mass_kg
- 9.5 kg kg
- safety_system
- Integral FAA-compliant parachute
Operations
- Environment
- air, industrial sites, remote operations
- Primary user
- commercial operators, infrastructure teams
- Role
- inspection, survey, monitoring
- Interaction model
- remote operation, autonomous mission execution
- Mobility class
- uncrewed aircraft
- Product detail
- robot, 1600, 900, c68a04555189b7d88c32db1b9033214313d3059707baa0a79e952db58972f7d9, reviewed_16x9_official_media, Autonomous Inspection Drone-in-a-Box, https://percepto.co/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Percepto_Sparrow_BR-10-01_11-2020.pdf, clean_photo_or_studio_fallback, https://percepto.co/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Percepto_Sparrow_BR-10-01_11-2020.pdf, https://zlsbkmaixmmnjrgpkcyp.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/robotics_assets/products/korthos-product-candidates-2026-08-17-batch-3/perc...
Research, Articles and recent verified events
- Percepto launches next-generation autonomous inspection-intelligence platform — 2026-06-25
- Percepto autonomous OGI drones approved for U.S. federal emissions inspections — 2025-11-07
- Percepto launches AI emission detector for autonomous methane surveying — 2025-06-16
- Percepto autonomous drones detect methane leaks in Permian Basin — 2025-01-18
- Percepto obtains German BVLOS approval for drone-in-a-box operations — 2024-04-10
- Percepto raises $67 million Series C and receives FAA waiver for autonomous drone inspections — 2023-06-12
- Percepto gains nationwide FAA waiver for remote industrial drone operations — 2022-11-07
- Delek US gains BVLOS refinery approval using Percepto AIM — 2022-01-25