ProxGrid develops aerial robotic systems that perform critical work on high-voltage transmission networks — work that has been done the same way for sixty years.
Transmission networks worldwide are aging into the most maintenance-intensive period of their operational lives. The towers, conductors, and insulators built through the post-war grid expansion are now decades into service in environments — coastal salt, agricultural dust, industrial pollution — that demand continuous, costly intervention.
The methods used to perform this work have not fundamentally changed. Specialist crews, helicopters, and live-line techniques remain the industry standard despite their cost, their safety profile, and their dependence on a shrinking pool of qualified operators.
The economics, the workforce trends, and the regulatory pressure on network reliability all point in the same direction: the industry needs unmanned, repeatable, cost-effective alternatives to crewed aerial work. ProxGrid is building them.
Towers, conductors, and insulators built through the post-war grid expansion — now decades into service, in environments that demand continuous intervention.
The infrastructure that powers modern life has been maintained the same way since it was built. The workforce that knows how to do this work is shrinking.
We are not adapting consumer drones to industrial work. We are engineering purpose-built systems for the operational realities of high-voltage transmission.
An industry maintaining continents of critical infrastructure with tools designed in a previous century.
ProxGrid was founded to address one of the most overlooked engineering challenges in modern power infrastructure: the cost and risk of maintaining the assets that move energy across continents.
We are working with an initial focus on Australian transmission network operators, with global deployment in view. Our work combines deep domain expertise in high-voltage systems with a discipline of engineering for sovereign manufacture and real-world operational integration.
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