Greek SME building robotic inspection platforms with NDT sensors and AI for wind energy, oil and gas, maritime, and infrastructure assets.
IKNOWHOW is a Greek technology SME that develops robotic platforms and sensor systems for automated industrial inspection. Their core capability is building and integrating robots that perform non-destructive testing (NDT) on large structures — wind turbine blades, ship hulls, oil and gas risers, and storage tanks. They combine hardware (robotic deployment platforms, acoustic sensors, shearography kits) with software (machine learning, computer vision) to replace manual inspection with automated, repeatable processes. More recently, they have expanded this robotics expertise into road infrastructure maintenance and digital agriculture.
CMDrive (acoustic monitoring of drive-trains), WInspector (shearography kit on robotic platform for blade inspection), and SheaRIOS (on-blade robotic shearography system) form a sustained three-project line in wind turbine inspection.
iPerm (guided wave monitoring), RiserSure (flexible riser assessment), ASPIRE (upstream plant inspection), and SafeAST (above-ground storage tank monitoring) cover structural health monitoring across the oil and gas value chain.
ShipTest (laser-guided ship hull robot), WInspector and SheaRIOS (blade inspection robots), HERON (road maintenance robot), and FrictionHarmonics (automated weld scanner) all involve designing or integrating robotic systems for real-world deployment.
HERON explicitly lists machine learning, computer vision, and augmented reality for road sensing; PestNu applies digital technologies and sensors to agriculture — both post-2020 projects.
Smartrec involved heat pipe, heat exchanger, and thermal storage integration for industrial heat recovery, though this appears to be an outlier from their core robotics focus.
SocketMaster targeted optimised prosthetic socket design for lower limb amputees, likely contributing digital modelling or sensor expertise.
From 2015 to 2019, IKNOWHOW was firmly rooted in industrial NDT and structural health monitoring — inspecting wind turbines, ship hulls, oil and gas infrastructure, and storage tanks using guided wave ultrasonics and shearography. Their projects during this period shared a common DNA: deploy a robotic platform to a hard-to-reach industrial asset and perform automated inspection. From 2021 onward, they pivoted this robotics-plus-sensing capability into new domains — road infrastructure maintenance (HERON) and precision agriculture (PestNu) — adding machine learning, computer vision, and blockchain to their toolkit. The trajectory is clear: same core competence in field robotics and sensor integration, applied to progressively broader and more software-intensive domains.
IKNOWHOW is evolving from a hardware-focused inspection robotics company toward an AI-augmented robotics integrator, applying machine learning and computer vision to infrastructure and environmental monitoring beyond their original oil-and-gas roots.
IKNOWHOW operates exclusively as a consortium partner — across 13 projects they have never coordinated, which is typical of specialist SMEs that bring a specific technical component rather than leading project design. With 78 unique partners across 19 countries, they are clearly a well-networked contributor rather than a closed-loop operator. Their heavy participation in Innovation Actions (11 of 13 projects) signals they focus on technology demonstration and near-market deployment rather than early-stage research.
With 78 unique consortium partners spread across 19 countries, IKNOWHOW has built a broad European network particularly strong in industrial inspection and energy sectors. Their Athens base connects them well to both Western European industrial leaders and emerging Mediterranean innovation ecosystems.
IKNOWHOW sits at the intersection of robotics hardware and industrial sensing software — a combination that is relatively rare among Greek SMEs. While many companies do either NDT consulting or robotics development, IKNOWHOW has demonstrated the ability to build complete robotic inspection systems deployable in harsh industrial environments (offshore, on wind turbine blades, on ship hulls). Their recent pivot into AI and computer vision means they can now offer not just "a robot that goes there" but "a robot that goes there, sees, and decides" — making them a strong candidate for any consortium needing field-deployable intelligent inspection or monitoring systems.
