Productionizing Autonomous Asset Inspection with Robotics

Join Nick Pilkington, CTO at DroneDeploy, Zach Stafford, Product Manager of the Specta robotics program at Woodside, Tim Dykstra, Director of Strategic Partnerships at Boston Dynamics, and Dave Inggs, Head of Robotics and Automation at DroneDeploy, for an unfiltered look at what it actually takes to deploy autonomous ground robots in one of the world's most demanding industrial environments.

Woodside's Specta program is already running Boston Dynamics' Spot robots through live EHA inspections at an offshore LNG facility – autonomously, on a schedule, feeding data directly into their asset management system. This session breaks down how they got there.

You'll get:

• How Woodside identified the right inspection use case and built the business case from the ground up
• The software stack making it work – mission management, dynamic routing and autonomous data capture via DroneDeploy
• What it takes to get robots approved in classified, hazardous-area environments
• The R&D-to-operations handoff: why this is where most programs die – and how Woodside avoided it
• Where the Specta program goes next: methane detection, corrosion inspection and scaling across assets

If you're evaluating autonomous inspection for industrial or energy facilities, this is the closest you'll get to a real deployment debrief.