Energy Robotics
Energy Robotics, now Korial, develops autonomous inspection software for industrial sites. Its hardware-agnostic platform equips robots and drones to perform inspection rounds, collect data and support AI processing across chemical, energy and other asset-heavy facilities.
Market context
Energy Robotics sits in the practical inspection robotics layer: software, fleet orchestration and deployment support for asset owners using autonomous robots in industrial sites. Its relevance comes from making third-party robots operational for routine inspection, especially in energy and critical infrastructure environments.
Facts
- Website: https://www.energy-robotics.com/
- HQ: Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
- Founded: 2019
- Segment: Inspection
- Known funding rounds: 1
Investors
- Blue Bear Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-10-07
- Climate Investment - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-10-07
- Futury Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-10-07
- Hessen Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-10-07
- Kensho - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-10-07
- Tadtech Fund - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-10-07
Fleet software for industrial inspection robots
Energy Robotics provides software for autonomous inspection robots and drones used in industrial facilities, especially energy and critical-infrastructure sites.
- Target environment: Industrial plants, energy assets, hazardous areas and critical infrastructure requiring repeated inspection rounds.
- Deployment model: Software and fleet-orchestration layer for mixed robot and drone fleets rather than a single robot body.
- Customer context: Asset owners and inspection teams that need routine autonomous inspection, remote monitoring and robot-fleet operations.
- Workflow context: Robots and drones collect inspection data, the platform coordinates missions and teams review findings for asset maintenance and safety.
- Commercial maturity: Commercial inspection-software company with roots in robotics research and deployed industrial use cases.
- Market position: Positioned as the operations layer that makes third-party inspection robots useful in real facilities.
- Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on site integration, robot hardware compatibility, hazardous-area rules, data workflows and maintenance-team trust.
- Adjacent context: Adjacent systems include ExRobotics robots, Boston Dynamics Spot inspection deployments, drone-in-a-box systems and asset inspection analytics.
- Source confidence: high
Events
- 2026-05-04 - Org Change - Energy Robotics rebrands as Korial inspection software company - The new Korial brand positioned the company as an enterprise AI platform for autonomous industrial operations. The rebrand followed industrial deployments across more than 100 sites on five continents. The transaction strengthens The company's ownership, capi…
- 2025-10-07 - Market Signal - Energy Robotics reports more than one million autonomous inspections - Energy Robotics said its platform had completed more than one million inspections across five continents. The company reported more than 32,000 hours of hazardous human labor saved across customers including Shell, BP, Repsol, BASF, Merck and E.ON.
- 2025-10-07 - Funding - Energy Robotics raises $13.5 million Series A to scale autonomous inspection - Energy Robotics raised a $13.5 million Series A co-led by Blue Bear Capital and Climate Investment. The company said the funding would accelerate commercial deployment of its autonomous inspection software across energy, chemicals, industrial and security sec…
- 2024-09-18 - Deployment - Energy Robotics deploys inspection robots for chemical industry monitoring - Energy Robotics deployed autonomous inspection robots in chemical industry environments. The robots are used for routine inspection, monitoring and data-driven maintenance workflows. The deployment reinforces Energy Robotics' focus on hazardous and high-value…
- 2024-06-12 - Partnership - ANYbotics and Energy Robotics partner on inspection-data integration - Partnership links ANYmal inspection robots with Energy Robotics software. The collaboration was announced around ACHEMA 2024. Integration targets asset-monitoring and inspection-data workflows for industrial sites.
- 2024-02-12 - Capability - Energy Robotics expands inspection platform for mixed robot and drone fleets - Energy Robotics expanded its platform to support mixed fleets of ground robots and drones. The platform enables unified mission planning, data collection and inspection workflows across heterogeneous systems. The capability supports customers running multiple…
- 2024-01-18 - Deployment - Shell Rheinland deploys mixed robot and drone inspection fleet with Energy Robotics - Shell Rheinland used Energy Robotics software with two different robots and a drone for 360-degree plant monitoring. The deployment combined ground and aerial autonomous inspection workflows at Shell's Rheinland site. The project shows Energy Robotics coordin…
- 2023-11-08 - Partnership - Energy Robotics collaborates with Shell on autonomous inspection workflows - Energy Robotics worked with Shell to develop autonomous inspection workflows for industrial sites. The collaboration focuses on using robots for inspection in energy and chemical environments. The partnership builds on Energy Robotics' role as software infras…
- 2023-06-20 - Deployment - Energy Robotics deploys autonomous inspection robots at Merck Darmstadt site - Energy Robotics deployed autonomous inspection robots at Merck's Darmstadt facility. The deployment supports routine inspection tasks and data collection in industrial production environments. The project provides a named life-sciences industrial deployment f…
- 2022-10-10 - Partnership - Energy Robotics collaborates with European industrial partners on inspection robotics - Energy Robotics worked with industrial partners to expand inspection robotics use cases. The collaboration focused on deploying autonomous inspection systems in real-world industrial environments. The work broadened Energy Robotics' customer and partner base…
- 2021-09-01 - Partnership - Energy Robotics joins NVIDIA Inception program - Energy Robotics joined the NVIDIA Inception program for AI startups. The program supports development of AI-driven robotics and inspection software. The membership connected Energy Robotics' inspection platform to NVIDIA's AI and robotics startup ecosystem.
- 2021-06-25 - Partnership - Energy Robotics and ExRobotics integrate ExR-2 for hazardous industrial inspections - Energy Robotics and ExRobotics advanced their partnership by equipping the ExR-2 inspection robot with Energy Robotics software. ExR-2 is IECEx/ATEX certified for inspection tasks in potentially explosive industrial environments. The integration pairs Energy…
- 2020-09-09 - Deployment - Merck pilots autonomous Spot inspections with Energy Robotics software - Energy Robotics announced a pilot enabling Boston Dynamics Spot to conduct remote autonomous inspection missions at Merck facilities. The pilot focused on monitoring thermal exhaust plants at Merck's Darmstadt site. The deployment tied Energy Robotics softwar…
Team
- Marc Dassler - CEO - Leads the platform strategy for orchestrating robots, drones and industrial inspection data across critical infrastructure sites.
- Dorian Scholz - Chief Product Officer, Co-founder - Scholz leads product work across web and mobile interfaces, cloud software, and IT security for autonomous industrial operations.
- Maurice Toscani - Chief Commercial Officer, Co-founder - Toscani leads commercial execution for Korial autonomous industrial operations and inspection platform adoption.
- Stefan Kohlbrecher - Chief Technology Officer, Co-founder - Kohlbrecher leads core robotics and AI technology for Korial autonomous inspection and operations software.
Context tags
- Inspection data analytics - Capability - Energy Robotics turns inspection robot and drone data into actionable insights and alerts.
- Robot fleet operations - Capability - Energy Robotics provides fleet management and robot management software for inspection robots and drones.
- Robotic inspection software - Peer Group - Energy Robotics provides AI software for autonomous robots and drones to inspect facilities.
- Inspection software platform - Stack Layer - Energy Robotics provides hardware-agnostic inspection software, robot brain, cloud fleet management and analytics.
- Industrial facilities - Customer Environment - Energy Robotics targets large-scale industrial facilities for automated inspection.
- Commercial deployment - Commercial Stage - Energy Robotics has public commercial software and customer-facing inspection platform materials.
- Energy and utilities - Customer Environment - Automated industrial inspection software is positioned for energy and asset-heavy operators.
Customers and deployments
- Active Customer Operations - autonomous inspection robots deployed in chemical industry environments - 2024-09-18 - chemical industry sites - industrial inspection and monitoring - Energy Robotics deployed autonomous in…
- Active Robot Fleet - two robots plus one drone in automated inspection workflows - 2024-01-18 - Shell Rheinland - ground-and-air plant inspection - Shell Rheinland used Energy Robotics software with two robots and a dro…
- Named Customer Site - autonomous inspection robots at Merck Darmstadt - 2023-06-20 - Merck - autonomous industrial inspection - Energy Robotics deployed autonomous inspection robots at Merck's Darmstadt facility. - sour…
- Spot Inspection Pilot - Spot autonomous inspection pilot with Merck - 2020-09-09 - Merck - autonomous industrial inspection - Energy Robotics enabled Boston Dynamics Spot to conduct remote autonomous inspection missions…
Articles
- 2025-10-07 - Energy Robotics is building inspection software into critical infrastructure fleets - An October 7, 2025 Series A and one-million-inspection record give Energy Robotics a fleet orchestration anchor across c…
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