We built a bro for the wire.
Scooter Bro is a little rugged robot that rides your power lines — clamping onto live transmission to inspect, de-ice and hunt faults, so crews don't have to. Here's how a robot small enough to scoot a wire became our whole company.
01The grid was on fire and nobody could reach it.
America runs on more than 200,000 miles of high-voltage line, and most of it gets a real look once a year — from a helicopter, at a hundred feet, hoping the camera catches the fault before it sparks. We watched crews risk their necks on towers and watched towns burn when the inspection came a season too late. The wire needed eyes that lived on it.
02So we built a motor that could climb a live line.
Everyone said a robot small enough to ride a conductor could never grip and climb one. We disagreed, and then we proved it. The Bro Drive is a tiny motor with absurd torque-to-weight — enough to clamp a bot onto an energized high-voltage line and walk it, span after span, in any weather. Once a small bot could hold the wire and move, everything else got possible.
03One robot, doing the whole job on the wire.
We could have chased a dozen models. Instead we put everything into one: Scooter Bro inspects splices, hunts faults, rates the line, and sheds ice — all on the same live conductor, no shutoff, no bucket truck. It's IP67, works energized, and plugs straight into your SCADA. One company, one obsession, one product done right. It's not a scooter — it's a bro on the wire.
Four rules we don't break.
- Built to work live
- Our bots clamp onto energized lines and stay there. No outage, no shutdown, no crew on the tower — the inspection happens while the power keeps flowing.
- Honest about the data
- Thermal, visual, acoustic — we report what the bot actually saw, geotagged and timestamped, straight into your system of record. No guessing from a helicopter window.
- Made in America, made to last
- Designed and built in the US, rated IP67, and serviced with parts on the shelf. A bro you can keep running is a bro worth deploying.
- Mission first
- Every fault we find early is a fire that doesn't start and a crew that doesn't climb. We measure ourselves in outages prevented, not units shipped.
- 200Kmi
- Of US line the grid can't inspect fast enough
- 1
- Product, doing the whole job on the wire
- IP67
- Sealed to work live, in any weather
Keep the grid alive.
Every span on a schedule, not a snapshot once a year. See Scooter Bro ride your line — or deploy it across your whole network.