Legged inspection rounds
Walks substations, tunnels, plant rooms and pump houses on a fixed route. Stairs, grating and gravel are part of the job, not an obstacle to it.
Solution · Infrastructure
The assets everything else runs on, inspected on a cadence.
Bridges, tunnels, substations, dams and solar farms age whether or not anyone is looking. werob puts legged and mobile robots on the inspection rounds that today need scaffolding, rope access or a shutdown, so the interval is set by the asset rather than by crew availability.
40.264
bridges on German federal trunk roads
Solution · Infrastructure
Inspection intervals set by access, not by condition.
A substation bay, a tunnel wall or a bridge bearing gets looked at when a crew can safely reach it. That means scaffolding, rope access, traffic management or a shutdown, and it means the interval is driven by cost rather than by what the structure actually needs. A legged robot walks the same round on a fixed cadence, carries visual and thermal payloads, and logs every pass the same way, so the record is comparable over years instead of over one campaign.
What the robot runs
Visual & thermal capture
Carries visual and thermographic payloads on every pass, so hot joints, moisture ingress and spalling show up as a trend rather than a surprise.
Repeatable, comparable records
Same route, same waypoints, same angles, every time. The value is the comparison between passes, which a hand-held inspection cannot give you.
Cleaning where yield is the point
Solar farms lose yield to soiling. Cleaning robots run the array on a cadence set by the soiling rate, not by when a crew is free.
Hardware match
- ANYbotics ANYmal X
- Boston Dynamics Spot
- Taurob Inspector
- Clearpath Robotics
Connectors
- CAFM
Standards
- DIN 1076
- RI-EBW-PRÜF
- EU 2023/1230
- DSGVO / GDPR
Built for infrastructure
| What the operator described | Hardware match | Cadence | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| “Ex-certified legged robot walks a substation bay on a fixed route, carrying visual and thermal payloads. Findings land in the maintenance record.” | ANYbotics ANYmal X | Weekly | Available |
| “Legged robot runs a tunnel or plant-room round, capturing the same waypoints every pass so condition is tracked as a trend.” | Boston Dynamics Spot · Taurob Inspector | Scheduled | Available |
| “Cleaning robot runs a ground-mounted solar array on a cadence set by the soiling rate, recovering yield lost to dust.” | Clearpath Robotics · Custom AMR | Seasonal | Available |
Infrastructure is a newly available werob solution. Hardware and cadence are representative; per-site scope and savings are set in your spec. The figure above describes the addressable asset base in Germany, not live deployments. Bridge count: BASt, bridge statistics 03/2026.
Infrastructure questions
- Where does werob stop and wedrone start?
- If it drives or walks, it is werob: substation and tunnel rounds, plant rooms, solar-array cleaning, anything reachable on the ground. If it flies, it is wedrone: bridge soffits, power-line corridors, dam faces, rotor blades and solar thermography from the air. Most real infrastructure programmes need both, and they are specified together.
- Does this replace a DIN 1076 inspection?
- No. The statutory bridge inspection under DIN 1076 is carried out by a qualified engineer and that does not change. Robots run the routine passes between those dates, so the engineer arrives with a documented trend instead of a blank sheet.
- Can a robot work in an explosion-protected zone?
- That is exactly why the hardware differs per site. Ex-certified platforms such as ANYmal X or the Taurob Inspector are built for zones where a standard robot is not permitted. The spec picks the platform from the zone, not the other way round.
- How large is the asset base?
- Germany alone carries 40,264 bridge structures on its federal trunk roads (BASt, March 2026), roughly 51,000 km of trunk road, about 37,900 km of extra-high-voltage transmission lines (BNetzA, end of 2024) and 30,906 wind turbines (end of 2025). Every one of them is on a mandated inspection interval.
- Is infrastructure robotics live yet?
- Infrastructure is a newly available werob solution. The deployment path is the same eight steps as every other solution: first spec in 48 hours, first robot on the asset in eight weeks.
Start
Put the inspection round on a cadence.
Describe the asset and the interval in plain language. First spec in 48 hours, first robot on site in eight weeks.