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Inspect steel towers and pipelines without sending crews up.

Shifters AI builds autonomous climbing and crawling robots that spot corrosion and cracks at the source, so your maintenance team stays on the ground.

Autonomous robot gripping transmission tower lattice steel

Manual inspection puts your crews in the most dangerous position possible

  • Rope-access teams spending hours on transmission lattice in wind and rain
  • Coverage gaps at bolt seats, anchor bases, and interior pipeline sections where human reach fails
  • Inspection backlogs growing as qualified climbers become harder to staff

Three deployment environments. One robot platform.

Transmission power tower structure

Power Towers

Climbs transmission lattice steel, reaches every joint and cross-member, flags surface deterioration in real time.

Pipeline interior inspection corridor

Pipelines

Crawls interior pipe runs with continuous wall-contact sensors, covers sections no human inspector can enter.

Underground mine corridor

Mines

Operates in confined underground corridors without GPS, dust-tolerant optical stack, tethered power for extended runs.

Computer vision trained on infrastructure defect morphology

The onboard CV model classifies surface pitting, oxidation banding, and fatigue crack patterns from imagery captured at climbing speed. Defects are geotagged and grouped by severity before the robot completes its run.

Explore the Technology

Deploy. Climb. Report.

Deploy

Mount the robot at the tower base or pipeline entry point. Set mission parameters in the web portal.

Climb and Inspect

The robot navigates autonomously, capturing imagery at every segment. Onboard CV classifies defects in real time.

Receive Report

Structured inspection report with a defect map, severity tiers, and GPS-linked coordinates delivered within minutes of run completion.

What the robot detects

Detection categories based on the defect taxonomy the CV model was trained on.

  • Surface pitting: early-stage corrosion formation in steel substrate

  • Oxidation banding: galvanic corrosion zones at dissimilar metal contacts

  • Fatigue crack propagation: weld-seam and stress-concentration fracture patterns

  • Coating failure: delamination and micro-blistering before visual pop-off stage

  • Mechanical joint wear: bolt-seat corrosion and loose-fitting indicators

Built by engineers who have worked inside industrial robotics problems

Ofer Ballin, CEO and Co-Founder

Ofer Ballin

CEO & Co-Founder

Years working on the commercial and deployment side of autonomous systems, with focus on qualifying robotics products with industrial operators.

Priya Nambiar, CTO and Co-Founder

Priya Nambiar

CTO & Co-Founder

Years designing autonomy stacks for mobile robots operating in unstructured industrial environments. Specific depth in sensor fusion and chassis design.

Erik Lindqvist, Head of Perception

Erik Lindqvist

Head of Perception

Spent years building computer vision models for industrial inspection applications. Deep background in defect detection dataset construction.

Meet the Team

We are selecting infrastructure operators for our first pilot cohort

If you operate transmission corridors, buried pipeline networks, or underground mining infrastructure, we want to understand your inspection workflow. Pilot partners work directly with our engineering team.

Apply for Pilot Access