Drone delivery may be taking off slowly in the U.S. thanks to strict FAA oversight, but drones have become a key tool for inspection in many industries. Now, that includes the insurance sector, where damage assessments are frequently performed by drones equipped with machine vision and AI.
That fact was driven home with an announcement from Kespry, a drone-based aerial intelligence company, which has teamed up with Grinnell Mutual, a leading property casualty insurance company and the nation’s largest primary reinsurer of farm mutual companies, to help with residential and commercial roof inspections.