Lucid Bots Raises $20M To Keep Up With Demand For Its Window-Washing Drones
Lucid Bots raises $20M Series B for its window-cleaning drones tackling dangerous building maintenance work across the US.
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Lucid Bots Raises $20M To Keep Up With Demand For Its Window-Washing Drones
Window-Washing Drones Are Replacing Dangerous Jobs — And Investors Just Put $20M Behind It Window-washing drones are no longer a futuristic idea — they are already working on real job sites, and the company making them just raised $20 million to scale up fast. Charlotte-based Lucid Bots, the startup behind the Sherpa drone and Lavo robot, has secured a Series B round to meet a surge in demand from the building maintenance industry. This is the story of a company quietly doing the hard, unglamorous work that most of the robotics world ignores. A Robotics Startup That Skipped the Hype Most robotics startups are busy chasing headlines with dancing humanoids and flashy demos. Lucid Bots is doing the opposite. The company makes drones and robots designed to clean, coat, and waterproof the exteriors of buildings — work that is genuinely dangerous, chronically understaffed, and growing more urgent every year. Andrew Ashur, the company's founder and CEO, started the business not from a roboti…