Rolls-Royce Holdings plc

Rolls-Royce Holdings plc is a British multinational aerospace and defense company that has been integrating AI into its operations for several decades, with documented use since at least 1999 in real-time engine health monitoring. The company employs AI across predictive maintenance, manufacturing quality control (via its 'Smart Discovery' suite), digital twin technology, and robotic inspections of critical components, supported by an internal data innovation unit called R2Data Labs. Rolls-Royce has also publicly developed and published an AI ethics framework and a five-layer trust-checking process, signaling a structured, ethically-grounded approach to AI deployment. Additionally, its Power Systems division is increasingly supplying backup power infrastructure to AI data centres, positioning it as an indirect infrastructure beneficiary of the AI industry.