Avitas Systems, a Boston-based GE subsidiary, is taking advantage of advances in AI which allow them to use drones and robots to autonomously inspect pipelines, power lines, and transportation systems. The company is using off-the-shelf machine-learning technology from Nvidia to guide the checkups, and to automatically identify anomalies in the data collected.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608811/drones-and-robots-are-taking-over-industrial-inspection/