The conventional automatic maintenance method for heating defects of high voltage transmission lines mainly uses the aggregate spatiotemporal correlation analysis method to obtain the location characteristics of heating defects, which is vulnerable to the change of defect attributes, leading to the high deviation of automatic maintenance positioning distance. Therefore, it is necessary to design a new automatic maintenance method for heating defects of high voltage transmission lines using flexible maintenance robots. That is to say, a flexible robot maintenance platform for thermal defects of highvoltage transmission lines is constructed, which compensates the positioning error of the automatic maintenance of thermal defects of the flexible maintenance robot, optimizes the movement state of the joint of the automatic maintenance arm for thermal defects of the flexible maintenance robot, and thus realizes the automatic maintenance of thermal defects of high-voltage transmission lines. The experimental results show that under the same maintenance environment, the automatic maintenance positioning distance of the automatic maintenance method for heating defects of high-voltage transmission lines based on the flexible maintenance robot designed in this paper is consistent with the actual distance for heating defects, and there is no automatic maintenance positioning deviation, which proves that the designed automatic maintenance method has good maintenance effect, reliability, and certain application value. It has made a certain contribution to improving the operation reliability of high-voltage transmission lines.