Strategic Partners & Alliances

Aerial Inspection Solutions (AIS) builds its service capability through carefully selected strategic partnerships with world-class manufacturers, certification bodies, and technology companies. Each partnership is structured to deliver direct value to our clients, through access to advanced equipment, recognised standards, and integrated inspection solutions that go beyond what any single organisation can achieve alone.

United Robotics Group

Strategic Partner – Autonomous Robotics & Inspection Solutions

United Robotics Group (URG) is a European robotics technology company developing and deploying service robotics solutions for professional applications across healthcare, laboratories, logistics, industry, inspection and maintenance. URG’s portfolio includes autonomous mobile robots, specialised robotic platforms, software and the uDrone autonomous inspection solution.

Relevant solutions available through AIS:

• uDrone Autonomous Inspection System, combining an industrial drone with an automated docking station for remote and recurring inspection operations
• Autonomous inspection and monitoring, supporting safer and more efficient inspection of difficult-to-access assets and infrastructure
• uRun Mobile Inspection Robot, designed to enhance mobile inspection capabilities through autonomous robotic mobility
• Robotic and software solutions, supporting the integration of autonomous systems into professional operational workflows

As a strategic partner of United Robotics Group, AIS provides:

• Local market development and customer engagement
• Product introduction and demonstration support
• Local deployment and application support
• Integration of URG robotic solutions with AIS inspection services
• Technical and operational support for applicable inspection applications
• Development of application-specific solutions combining autonomous robotics with professional inspection expertise

The partnership between AIS and URG combines advanced autonomous robotics with AIS’s industrial inspection, asset integrity and drone-enabled inspection expertise, providing clients with new options for remote, repeatable and safer inspection and monitoring of challenging environments.

The collaboration is particularly relevant to applications where conventional inspection methods may expose personnel to difficult, hazardous or inaccessible environments, and where autonomous or remotely operated data acquisition can improve inspection efficiency, repeatability and operational safety.

Website: United Robotics Group

South Africa enquiries: johann@aerialis.co.za | +27 84 512 5150

Skymetix Group is a South African aerial reality capture and drone surveying company based in Centurion, Gauteng, operating under SACAA UASOC certification (CAA/G1430D). Skymetix specialises in RTK drone surveying, photogrammetry, and digital asset management for the agriculture and mining sectors, delivering structured, repeatable survey methodologies designed to hold up under compliance audit and dispute resolution.

Skymetix operates two specialised divisions:

• Skymetix Agri, farm survey and topographic mapping, NDVI crop monitoring, drainage analysis, precision crop spraying, invasive species mapping, and seasonal monitoring programmes
• Skymetix Reality, stockpile volumetrics, orthomosaics and contour maps, sub-5cm accuracy digital terrain models, 3D point clouds (LAS/LAZ), and 3D BIM modelling (IFC/Revit) for mining and industrial sites

Skymetix delivers data in industry-standard formats, GeoTIFF, LAS/LAZ, DXF, SHP, IFC/RVT, DWG, PDF, and CSV, compatible with ArcGIS, QGIS, AutoCAD Civil 3D, Revit, Trimble, and Leica workflows.

AIS and Skymetix joint forces to explore opportunities in drone-enabled digital twin development, combining Skymetix’s surveying and reality capture methodology with AIS’s industrial inspection expertise to create dynamic, accurate digital representations of physical assets and sites.

Website: www.skymetix.co.za