Percepto, an Austin-based company, launched a next-generation artificial intelligence inspection platform for energy infrastructure, that pairs autonomous drones with onboard AI. “The next phase of industrial autonomy is about unlocking more value from the infrastructure energy companies already operate,” Percepto CEO Dor Abuhasira said in the announcement. A scheduled inspection tells a bank the condition of an asset on the day someone looked at it. A drone or robot that can fly the same route weekly, or in some deployments daily, produces a continuous record instead of a snapshot. The gap between inspections, the period when a lender has historically had no visibility at all, shrinks from months to days.