A four-legged inspection platform built for the kinds of facilities that eat wheeled robots alive — uneven floors, climbed catwalks, slick pump rooms, and the occasional ladder.
A petrochemical operator needed continuous visual inspection of a 200,000 m² facility. Wheeled robots couldn't navigate the elevated walkways. Drones couldn't get inside enclosed spaces. Human inspectors were doing 14-hour rotations.
STRIDE-7 carries a thermal-RGB-LiDAR sensor head, autonomously patrols 32 pre-mapped routes, and climbs stairs up to 35°. Whole-body MPC keeps it stable on grated metal walkways even with 70 km/h crosswinds. The fleet manager handles charging, scheduling, and anomaly escalation.
Three units now run 22-hour duty cycles across the facility. Inspector workload is down 60%. The system has flagged 14 incipient equipment failures that human walk-throughs had missed — including one that would have caused an unscheduled shutdown.
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