Founded to solve a challenge no one else could

No GPS. No comms. No line of sight.

We were asked to inspect a sewer with no GPS signal and no reliable comms, somewhere existing systems simply couldn't operate, so we built one that could, and that's still how we work today. We don't build for the sake of it, every solution we've delivered exists because someone had a real challenge to solve.

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Our Mission

Our mission is to push the boundaries of what's possible in drone and embedded systems software, delivering reliable, secure and innovative solutions that operate in the most challenging environments.

We're realising that today by surveying the sewer and wastewater networks that are too hazardous or hard to reach for manned entry, building the technology and experience that will carry into the wider environments we believe autonomous systems can eventually operate in safely.

Our Journey

Built through deployment, not theory.

February 2024

Founded in Donegal, Ireland

Subterranean was established to address the limitations of unmanned systems in environments, where GPS, RF and visibility are degraded.

December 2024

First Deployment in Glasgow, Scotland

Deployed an unmanned inspection system in Victorian-era sewers, maintaining video and communications in a GPS-denied, RF-constrained environment.

October 2025

Stelios Business Award Winner

Subterranean and Good Friday Robotics are named as winners at the Stelios Awards for North-South Business Cooperation, recognising our cross-border innovation in underground inspection.

March 2026

First Public Product Release

HALO was developed to enable operators to explore and analyse spatial data captured during inspection deployments.

What We Do

Sending people underground to inspect sewer and wastewater assets is often unsafe, slow or impractical. We survey these assets using drones and robotic crawlers instead, capturing the 2D and 3D data your team needs to grade defects and decide what action to take.

Every survey we deliver is stored and shared through HALO, our own data platform, so results don't end up scattered across emails, PDFs and folders that eventually stop working.

Everything we build comes from real deployments, not theory. We've surveyed live, hazardous, hard-to-reach infrastructure ourselves, and every improvement to our service and our software comes from what we've learned doing that work.

About Us

Subterranean was founded by Anthony Hutton and Aidan Gallagher after more than two decades working together on complex engineering and software systems for security camera and IoT manufacturers and system integrators.

Across this work, they repeatedly encountered the same problem: systems that perform well in controlled conditions fail when deployed in the environments where they are most needed.

Subterranean was established to address this gap - building systems that operate reliably where communications, positioning and visibility are constrained.