From hazardous inspections to autonomous industrial standard.

Founded:
2017
Tech
Industrial Robotics
Forward.one entry point:
2025 (growth round lead)
Headquarters
Delft, The Netherlands

The Challenge

Industrial sites don’t tolerate failure. Oil, gas, and chemical facilities operate in hazardous environments where explosive gases, extreme conditions, and strict safety protocols make routine inspection difficult, expensive, and dangerous.

Most inspections are still manual. That means limited frequency, high operational cost, and exposure of personnel to risk. At the same time, regulatory pressure is rising. Methane emissions must be monitored continuously. Downtime is unacceptable. Safety margins are tightening.

The industry needs a new standard: continuous, autonomous inspection that works in certified hazardous environments.

ExRobotics was built to deliver exactly that.

FORWARD.one involvement

We invested in ExRobotics because it already operates where most robotics companies stop: in real, certified industrial environments with paying customers and repeat deployments.

The company combines deep certification expertise (EX environments), robust hardware, and a growing software layer into a Robot-as-a-Service (RaaS) model that aligns directly with customer operations. That combination fits our thesis: industrial technology that converts complexity into measurable performance.

We led the growth round to accelerate global deployment, expand software capabilities, and scale manufacturing. Beyond capital, we support ExRobotics in sharpening its commercialization strategy, scaling international rollout, and building a category-defining position in autonomous industrial inspection.

Our core customers are scaling fast, and we’re investing to grow with them. Together with FORWARD.one, we will accelerate our ability to help customers operate more safely, sustainably and efficiently.

Mark Mildon

CEO

Results

ExRobotics is already proving that autonomous inspection works under real industrial pressure:

ExRobotics turns safety, emissions, and uptime into continuous, measurable performance.

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