Voliro
About
About Voliro
Voliro develops aerial robots for contact-based inspection of industrial assets. Voliro T uses tilting rotors for omnidirectional flight and can press a sensor against vertical, curved or overhead surfaces with up to 30 newtons of controlled force, including inside GPS-denied structures.
Interchangeable payloads perform ultrasonic and high-temperature thickness measurement, dry-film coating checks, pulsed-eddy-current inspection and wind-turbine lightning-protection testing. Assisted flight modes stabilise contact while reporting software associates measurements with location and time and exports results to maintenance systems. Voliro supplies the platform through subscriptions and trained service partners, with machines operating across 17 countries and around 100 inspections reported each month.
Products
- Voliro T
Voliro
Operations
Operating milestones
- Operating milestone
2025-06-16 - 90% Cost Savings in CUI Inspection Using Voliro T Drone-Based PEC Sensor - CUI inspection
Source - Operating milestone
2025-06-16 - 90% Cost Savings in CUI Inspection Using Voliro T Drone-Based PEC Sensor - CUI inspection
Source - Operating metric
2025-06-16 - 90% Cost Savings in CUI Inspection Using Voliro T Drone-Based PEC Sensor - CUI inspection per location
Source - Operating milestone
2025-01-14 - $1.2M Saved Mining Producer Using Voliro T Drone for Ore Bin Inspection - Ore-bin inspection
Source - Operating milestone
2025-01-14 - $1.2M Saved Mining Producer Using Voliro T Drone for Ore Bin Inspection - Ore-bin inspection
Source - Operating metric
2025-01-14 - $1.2M Saved Mining Producer Using Voliro T Drone for Ore Bin Inspection - Ore-bin inspection
Source
Deployments
- Commercial activity
2025-08-29 - Voliro reported commercial Voliro T PEC deployments across the United States, Canada, Europe and APAC, including Osprey Integrity use at a Suncor refinery. - Voliro T with pulsed-eddy-current payload - Suncor refinery
Source
Observed use
- Voliro T with Horus Solutions wind-turbine LPS inspection operations in Thailand
Operational - Connected - Horus Solutions operates Voliro T with its LPS payload for recurring wind-turbine inspections in Thailand, completing each turbine in about 30 minutes.
Source - Voliro T with Minerva Energy wind-turbine LPS inspection operations
Operational - Connected - Minerva Energy operates Voliro T for wind-turbine LPS inspections and is a certified Voliro operator for current UK and European work.
Source - Voliro T with SkySpecs wind-turbine LPS inspection campaigns in Germany and the United States
Operational - Connected - SkySpecs used Voliro T to inspect 210 wind turbines across Germany and the United States, completing 8–18 turbine inspections per day.
Source
Funding
- 2025-06-16 - Series A extension - Voliro reaches US$23M total after Series A extension
Voliro added new equity participation from noa and a UBS debt facility in a Series A extension that brought cumulative capital raised to US$23 million. - source: voliro.com
- 2024-10-03 - Series A - $12M - Voliro raises USD 12M Series A for aerial inspection robotics
Voliro secured USD 12 million in Series A funding led by Cherry Ventures. - source: voliro.com
Investors
- Cherry Ventures - Lead - VC - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2024-10-03 - latest 2025-06-16
- noa - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-06-16
- UBS - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-06-16
Team
- Timo Müller - Co-Founder and CEO - Leads Voliro’s product, commercial and international scale-up around the Voliro T inspection platform.
- Florian Gutzwiller - Board Member and former CEO - Board continuity links Voliro's founder-era leadership with current industrial inspection scale-up.
Timeline
Events
- 2026-01-20 - Partnership - Voliro appoints Gresco UAS as a U.S. channel partner
The agreement expanded U.S. access to contact-based aerial inspection capabilities. Gresco was identified as a sales, deployment and support channel rather than a Voliro T end customer.
Source - 2026-01-13 - Executive Hire - Voliro appoints Timo Müller as CEO
Müller had helped shape the Voliro T platform and the company since its founding. Gutzwiller retained a strategic governance role on Voliro’s board of directors.
Source - 2025-12-04 - Partnership - Voliro and MontiPower integrate robotic surface-treatment tools
The partners targeted coating removal, corrosion remediation and surface preparation in hard-to-reach locations. Voliro said early access was expected in the first quarter of 2026; the announcement was a partnership and integration milestone, not a completed deployment.
Source - 2025-08-29 - Capability - Voliro secures Sixpec PEC intellectual-property rights
The transaction concerned PEC intellectual property, not the acquisition of the Sixpec company. Commercial deployments span the United States, Canada, Europe and APAC, including Osprey Integrity use at a Suncor refinery.
Source - 2025-06-16 - Funding - Voliro reaches US$23M total after Series A extension
noa joined as a new equity investor, UBS provided the debt facility and Cherry Ventures remained the original Series A lead. The extension supports the next Voliro T generation, deeper cloud integration, AI-assisted inspection diagnostics, increased autonomy and additional modular payloads. At announcement, Voliro reported more than 40 customers in 17 countries and more than 100 contact inspections per month.
Source - 2025-03-11 - Product Launch - Voliro launches PEC payload for Voliro T
The modular payload was made available to order, with first deliveries scheduled for April 2025. Voliro positioned the configuration for insulated pipes, tanks and other hard-to-reach industrial assets.
Source - 2025-02-24 - Deployment - Voliro T cuts Grupo DR1 chimney inspection time by 40%
Voliro T carried a high-temperature ultrasonic probe to measure chimney-wall thickness in real time at Klabin, described by the case study as Brazil's largest packaging-paper producer. The drone reached hard-to-access structures without scaffolding or elevated work platforms, so the inspection could be completed while operations continued. Grupo DR1 reports that the process cut inspection time by 40% and reduced the setup and downtime associated with conventional access methods.
Source - 2025-02-14 - Deployment - Voliro T accelerates AssetTech wind-turbine inspections sixteenfold
The aircraft uses a lightning-protection-system probe to take contact measurements directly on turbine surfaces without climbing or manually handling a cable. AssetTech says an inspection that previously took a full day can be completed in about 30 minutes, a sixteenfold speed improvement. The case study reports a 50% cost reduction—from about $1,000 to $500 per inspection—and roughly 95% less downtime for the turbine owner.
Source - 2024-10-03 - Funding - Voliro raises USD 12M Series A for aerial inspection robotics
Existing business angels and family offices participated alongside a conventional debt facility. Voliro said the capital would expand its aerial-robot product offering and support wider international adoption. The company identified Chevron, Holcim, Acuren and Osprey Integrity as users of its robots for hard-to-reach industrial inspections.
Source - 2023-11-16 - Partnership - Voliro adds Acuren, MISTRAS and TEAM as U.S. inspection partners
The partner group comprises Acuren, MISTRAS and TEAM Industrial Services. Voliro’s tiltable-rotor platform carries contact NDT sensors to elevated structures. MFE Inspection Solutions supported onboarding of TEAM to the Voliro service network.
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Relations
Relationships
- MontiPower
Surface Treatment Technology Partner - Voliro and MontiPower are integrating Bristle Blaster and MBX surface-treatment tools with Voliro T; early access was expected in Q1 2026.
- Sixpec
Pec Intellectual Property Integration - Voliro acquired rights to Sixpec pulsed-eddy-current intellectual property and integrated the inspection capability into Voliro T.
- Grupo DR1
Qualified Robotics/autonomy Relationship - Grupo DR1 Uses Voliro T to Cut Chimney Inspection Time by 40% for Brazil’s Largest Paper Exporter
- Gresco UAS
U.s. Distribution And Support Partner - Gresco UAS offers Voliro T systems and provides deployment and support services to customers in the United States.
- Falcon Drone
Qualified Robotics/autonomy Fact - Falcon Drone LTD
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Context tags
- Industrial inspection - Workflow - Voliro builds contact-capable aerial robots for industrial NDT inspection.
- Aerial inspection - Workflow - Voliro builds contact-capable aerial robots for industrial asset inspection and non-destructive testing.
- Industrial inspection robotics - Workflow - Voliro builds aerial robots for industrial NDT and inspection.
- Industrial asset inspection - Workflow - Voliro builds contact-capable aerial robots for industrial asset inspection and non-destructive testing.
- Structural inspection data - Capability - Voliro collects structural inspection data with contact-capable aerial robots.
- Commercial drone OEM - Stack Layer - Voliro builds contact-capable aerial robots for industrial asset inspection and non-destructive testing.