Crawlers & climbing robots
Magnetic & climbing crawler
A robot that sticks to steel walls with magnets (or to blades and towers with suction or clamps) and scans thickness, welds and corrosion with ultrasonic or other NDT sensors.
Good at
Dense thickness data on tanks, boilers and hulls without scaffolding.
Watch out for
Needs a ferrous, reasonably clean surface; access and setup still take time.
Specs that matter for this type
- Weight
- Top speed
- Sensors
- Payload
- Ingress protection (IP)
Jobs it does
Usually the main robot for
- Storage tank inspection
- Ultrasonic thickness & NDT crawlers
- Wind turbine blade repair robots
- Penstock & hydropower inspection
- Ship hull blasting & painting crawlers
Also used for
Models we've catalogued
No models catalogued yet. We only list a model once we can source its specs from the maker's own spec page. Providers who do this work are listed on the job pages above.
Also called: magnetic crawler, crawler, tank crawler, blade crawler, blade robot.