"The way industrial inspections are done today is largely unchanged from how they were done decades ago. They are ascending to great heights, putting themselves in harm’s way, and performing these inspections that are very manual and labor-intensive," says Ian Gibson, the company’s co-founder and business lead.

The company believes that the inspection industry through drones would supplant these types of inspections, but it turned out that they could not do it because of the way their mechanisms move. With Astria, Pitch Aeronautics steps in to offer their help through a drone that can perform up close and touch-based inspections.

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