Industrial inspection AI for safety, coverage, and traceability

We build AI systems that make accurate visual judgments in the field, on the phones and edge devices your crews already carry. Rail, utilities, construction, manufacturing. Offline. Deployed in weeks. PhD-led, Tokyo and Osaka.

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Three jobs, one underlying system

Field work asks your crews to make visual judgments all day long. Is this weld sound? Is that clearance within spec? Was this connection made correctly before we energised the line? Today, most of those judgments rely on a senior inspector's eye, a tape measure, and a paper checklist. We turn them into AI that runs on a phone.

Inspection

Catch the defects, wear, and damage that matter - including the rare ones a traditional dataset would never cover. Track condition over time. Prioritise what needs a human second look.

Measurement

Dimensions, clearances, alignment, wear depth. From a smartphone camera, without a total station, without shutting down the asset.

Safety verification

Pass/fail checks before a crew energises, lifts, cuts, or closes up. The inspector's judgment, captured once and available to every worker on site.

Vision-language models learn the task from a handful of examples, synthetic data covers the long tail, and the result distils down to a model that runs fully offline on hardware you already own.

10-50MBmodel size
3-4 weeksfirst deployment
100%offline capable

Built for:

Rail

clearance and dimensional checks, wear detection, overhead equipment condition

Utilities

live-line connection verification, pole and tower condition, vegetation risk

Construction

progress measurement, safety compliance, defect logging

Manufacturing

surface defects, assembly verification, the long tail of "we'd check it if we had time"

Why people choose Yodo Labs

The defects that matter most are the ones you've barely seen. Ten examples, not ten thousand. Traditional computer vision stalls here - we don't. Vision-language models learn the task from a handful of seed examples, and we generate synthetic data to cover the long tail of rare cases. Your dataset problem becomes a scoping conversation, not a two-year data collection project.

The pilot worked on a workstation. Then it needed a GPU server, a cloud account, a network exception, and six months of IT review - and the crews who were supposed to use it never got it in their hands. Our models run offline on the phones and edge hardware your teams already carry. Deployment is a download, not a procurement cycle.

You know the work matters. You also know no one is going to approve a large AI project on a hunch. You need evidence and a plan, but the larger players aren't interested.

Limited offer

Free Scoping Session

We run a free two-week scoping engagement - normally valued at ¥800,000 - where we work with your team to define the problem, assess feasibility, and map out what a pilot would actually look like. No commitment beyond the two weeks. At the end, you'll know whether this is worth taking further, and we'll both know whether we're the right team to do it.

Valued at

¥800,000

Free

Offices in Tokyo and Osaka. Serving clients globally

Xiuxi Pan, PhD

Xiuxi Pan, PhD

Technical Lead

Published work in Computational Imaging, Generative AI at Tokyo Institute of Technology. Led the production and implementation of AI solutions for major Japanese and international enterprises. Profiled by WIRED and Nikkei as an early pioneer of AI in Japan.

Sho Osawa

Sho Osawa

Commercial Lead

Former strategy consultant at Strategy& (PwC) and Westpac Banking Group. Scaled a SEA start-up insurer from zero to 150M in insured exposure in two years, leveraging automation and AI.

Bona Bai, PhD

Bona Bai, PhD

Robotics Lead

15 years building autonomous systems across Amazon (Astro), Google Wing, and Figure AI. Full-stack autonomy from sensor fusion and perception through to real-time decision making.

Billy Qiu

Billy Qiu

Head of Ecosystem

Former consultant at KPMG with operating experience across APAC and the US. Leads partnerships and community, working with partners and enterprises to deliver AI engineering projects.

Research & Case Studies

Applied research and real-world deployments. See how we bridge the gap between what AI promises and what it delivers in the field.

Case Studies

Join us

We're hiring with 5 open positions available. Come work on problems that matter, at the intersection of AI capability and APAC business reality.

Business Development

Drive partnerships and client relationships across rail, utilities, construction, and manufacturing. Help teams understand what field visual AI can do for their operations and turn scoping conversations into deployed solutions.

Computer Vision Engineer

Build and ship vision models that run on phones and edge devices. Work across the full pipeline: synthetic data generation, vision-language model fine-tuning, model distillation, and on-device deployment.

Expressions of Interest

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