SPEAR

SPEAR - a Horizon Europe project - delivers the next generation of autonomous aerial robots engineered for missions where today’s drones cannot operate — from deep‑confined industrial assets to dense forest canopies and extreme physical environments. SPEAR offers a computational pathway to design novel aerial robots and their autonomy, tailored to the targeted task. By combining advanced agility, intrinsic safety, long‑endurance autonomy, and resilient perception, SPEAR strengthens Europe’s strategic autonomy and accelerates innovation across inspection, environmental monitoring, and service robotics. With three key exploitable results — confined‑space long‑range UAVs, high‑speed forest‑inspection drones, and next‑generation voxel‑sensor perception — SPEAR brings research‑grade breakthroughs to market‑ready maturity, opening new commercial opportunities and enabling safer, faster, and more efficient operations.