Aberdeen-based High Performance Robotics (HPR) is expanding into Taiwan after securing its first commercial contract in the country, marking another major step in the subsea technology specialist's international growth.

High Performance Robotics secured its first commercial contract in Taiwan.

The offshore wind contract follows a self-funded trial by HPR earlier this year, when the company traveled to Taiwan to prove its technology could operate effectively in challenging high-current conditions, which have historically presented difficulties for remotely operated vehicle (ROV)-based inspection.

HPR will now deploy its technology and personnel to support IOG on an offshore wind project, which gives the business a foothold in the Taiwanese market.

Rather than waiting for a commercial contract, HPR invested its own resources in testing and demonstrating its technology, confident that it could provide a faster and viable solution to a longstanding inspection challenge.

Testing was carried out at FloWave in…