The Future of Safety: How AI is Detecting Structural Defects Our world is built on massive structures: towering bridges, sprawling buildings, and essential pipelines. Ensuring their integrity is paramount for public safety and economic stability. Traditionally, inspecting these structures has been a slow, expensive, and often dangerous task. But a technological revolution is underway, powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI), that’s making this critical job faster, safer, and more accurate than ever before.
The AI-Powered Inspection Revolution At its heart, AI-powered defect detection uses sophisticated algorithms to do what the human eye does, but on a massive scale and with superhuman consistency. The primary technology behind this is computer vision, a field of AI that trains computers to interpret and understand the visual world.