Facts

• Segment: Inspection
• Country: Germany
• Founded: 2019
• Website: https://www.energy-robotics.com/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Facts
• Funding
• Investors
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Operations / Deployments
• Team
• Supply chain relationships
• Relationships
• Context tags
• Customers and deployments
• Record / Articles
• Sources

Summary

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

Funding

• 2025-10-07 - Series A - $14M - Energy Robotics raises $13.5 million Series A to scale autonomous inspection - source: energy-robotics.com

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

• 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.
• 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.
• 2024-09-18 - Deployment - Energy Robotics deploys inspection robots for chemical industry monitoring - Energy Robotics deployed autonomous inspection robots in chemical industry environments.
• 2024-06-12 - Partnership - ANYbotics and Energy Robotics partner on inspection-data integration - Partnership links ANYmal inspection robots with Energy Robotics software.
• 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.
• 2024-01-18 - Deployment - Shell Rheinland deploys mixed robot and drone inspection fleet with Energy Robotics - Shell Rheinland used Energy Robotics' software platform with two different robots and a drone for 360-degre…
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 2021-09-01 - Partnership - Energy Robotics joins NVIDIA Inception program - Energy Robotics joined the NVIDIA Inception program for AI startups.
• 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 Ene…
• 2020-09-09 - Deployment - Merck pilots autonomous Spot inspections with Energy Robotics software - Energy Robotics announced a pilot program enabling Boston Dynamics Spot to conduct remote autonomous inspection missions…

Operations / Deployments

• 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.

Team

• Marc Dassler - Co-Founder and CEO
• Dorian Scholz - Co-Founder
• Stefan Kohlbrecher - Co-Founder
• Alberto Romay - Co-Founder

Supply chain relationships

• ExRobotics - technology_partner - Energy Robotics describes ExRobotics as a hardware partner for ATEX/IECEx inspection robots using Energy Robotics software.

Relationships

• pilot customer - Energy Robotics enabled Spot autonomous inspection missions at Merck facilities.

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…

Record / 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…