Eyes on every span.
No helicopter required.
Scooter Bro is a little rugged robot that rides your power lines — clamping onto live transmission to inspect, de-ice, and hunt faults, so your crews don't have to. It's not a scooter. It's a bro on the wire.
The grid is too big to watch and too old to ignore.
You can't fly every mile, you can't shut every line off to work it, and you can't hire enough crews to be everywhere at once. So the small failures sit there — until they aren't small.
Wildfire starts at a splice nobody saw
A single hot connector or slapping conductor can start a fire that costs a utility billions. The failure was visible months earlier — in thermal — if anything had been watching.
A helicopter once a year isn't coverage
Roughly 200,000 miles of US transmission line get a fly-by about once a year. That's a snapshot, not surveillance. Most of the span goes unwatched between passes.
Ice and heat don't wait for a crew
Lines collapse under ice load and sag dangerously in heat. By the time a truck rolls, the span has already failed or tripped — and the de-icing window has closed.
The grid is older than the people watching it
Aging conductors, decades-old hardware, and a shrinking line workforce. You cannot hire your way to continuous coverage of every mile. You have to put something on the wire.
The math is
brutal.
- Transmission miles
- 200K+
- Wildfire liability
- Billions
- Works the wire
- Live
- Sealed to
- IP67
US lines inspected mostly by helicopter, roughly once a year.
Paid out by utilities for fires traced to line faults.
No de-energizing, no outage, no bucket truck. The Bro grips a hot line.
Built to ride through dust, rain, and the weather that grounds aircraft.
Pilot one circuit. Then scale the territory.
You don't buy a platform on a promise. You prove it on your worst feeder, watch the dashboard fill in, and grow from there.
Pilot one circuit
Pick your worst feeder — the one in the fire zone, the one that keeps tripping. We put a fleet on it and you watch the dashboard fill in. No platform commitment, no fork-lift integration.
Read the deltas
Bros run the span on a schedule and report thermal and optical findings against the last pass. Hot splices, frayed strands, encroaching vegetation, sag against clearance — flagged, not buried.
Scale across your lines
Prove it on one circuit, then add more. The same Scooter Bro, the same dashboard, expanding across the service territory one corridor at a time — every span on a schedule instead of a snapshot once a year.
No shut-off.
No bucket truck.
Taking a line out of service to inspect it costs money and risk. So the Bro doesn't ask you to. The Bro Drive — a tiny sealed motor with absurd torque — lets a small robot grip a live conductor and carry tools for days, not minutes.
Self-tensioning clamps hold it on the wire. Thermal and optical eyes read the span. Autonomy keeps it running the route while your crews stay on the ground, where the ground is safer.
One robot. The whole job on the wire.
Scooter Bro rides your power lines today — inspection, fault-finding, de-icing, and line-rating in one machine. Pipelines and rail are on the roadmap; the wire is where it ships.
Inspect
Scooter Bro rides the conductor span by span, reading every splice, clamp, and strand — thermal for the hot connections, optical for corrosion, broken aluminum, and bird damage.
Find faults & rate the line
It flags the failing splice while it's still a maintenance ticket, and measures conductor temperature, sag, and clearance directly — so your control room can rate the line on real data, not a worst-case guess.
De-ice live spans
When ice loads up and a span starts to sag toward failure, Scooter Bro sheds it on the wire — energized, no crew on the tower, no de-energizing the circuit to do it.
It feeds your
SCADA, not another silo.
A new inspection tool is worthless if it lives in its own app nobody opens. Bro findings flow into the dashboards your operators already watch — thermal anomalies, fault locations, and clearance violations as alerts on the systems you run today.
Geotagged, timestamped, and tied to the span. Your control room sees a flagged splice where they already see everything else.
Put a bro on your worst circuit.
Tell us about your territory and where it hurts — the feeder in the fire zone, the corridor you can't reach, the line that keeps tripping. We'll scope a pilot on one circuit and show you what Scooter Bro sees.
Already running a pilot? Email fleet@scooterbros.co and we'll get your operators on the dashboard.