Terra Drone launches indoor inspection drone in Japan and the United States
Terra Drone has launched its Terra Xross 1 indoor inspection drone in Japan and the United States. The product is the company’s first in-house developed and manufactured drone for indoor inspection work, targeting hazardous jobs in confined, dark and dusty spaces where manual access is costly and risky.
The central selling point is flight stability in GPS-denied environments. Terra Xross 1 combines visual odometry sensors with Lidar to estimate position and maintain control indoors, where conventional systems can struggle in low-visibility or cluttered conditions. Terra Drone said the system is designed to be easier to operate without advanced piloting skills, widening its appeal beyond specialist drone teams. The company also said the aircraft will be priced below $25,000, or about one-third of the cost of competing indoor inspection drones.
Terra Xross 1 also addresses one of the main operational limits of indoor UAVs: endurance. The drone supports both battery operation and a tethered power module, allowing continuous power for longer inspections and reducing the risk of a crash caused by battery depletion. For data capture, it carries a 4K camera with 180-degree vertical tilt and LED lighting for low-light work. Terra Drone launched Terra Xross Cloud alongside the aircraft, giving users a platform to visualize captured inspection data in 3D and manage or share point cloud data and recorded video more quickly.
The company is positioning the drone for infrastructure inspection in oil and gas plants, 3D mapping in underground mines, disaster assessment in collapsed structures and security monitoring inside public and government buildings. A simultaneous release in Japan and the U.S. signals a push into two important markets for industrial drone adoption. If the aircraft performs as advertised at its stated price, it could lower the barrier to indoor drone inspections and broaden the use of UAVs in safety, maintenance and emergency response work.