Composites World covers the public launch of Roboscope, our iPhone-based AR inspection platform for wind turbine blades and large composite structures.
On a 70-meter blade, defects don’t fit on paper. Roboscope pins every finding to its exact physical location in 3D — capturing type, dimensions, photographic evidence, inspector ID, and timestamp in a single AR session on one handheld iPhone. The traveler sheet, the tape measure, and the post-hoc data re-entry all go away.
Using iPhone LiDAR, AR markers land with approximately 5 cm placement accuracy. Sessions are auto-registered via a work-task router scan, and completed records integrate directly with ERP and QC systems — no manual re-entry.
What makes this more than a digital clipboard is the Layup Registration Table. Roboscope resolves each AR-anchored defect against the part’s layup geometry, returns the ordered ply stack — material, fiber orientation, nominal thickness per layer — and cross-references defect depth to determine which plies are involved. Structural plies trigger automatic escalation. The full layer-annotated record exports to ERP or repair work orders with ply-level detail.
Defect classification, severity grading, delamination identification, and surface condition scoring run on purpose-trained ML vision models, updated continuously from session evidence. Edge cases route automatically to human experts.
The article covers where Roboscope fits in the broader landscape of composite-structure inspection, the first use cases now shipping, and the sectors in scope: NDT, wind energy, and marine.