Verobotics has built autonomous robots that clean and scan building exteriors, allowing building owners to proactively maintain and upkeep their buildings faster, cheaper, and smarter.
The problem is decades old. The only way to clean or inspect a building's exterior has been to lower a person from a BMU (Building Maintenance Unit) at the top of the building.
BMUs are heavy, can be out of service, complicated to operate, and limit cleaning to a couple of times per year.
Verobotics breaks this paradigm completely. Their robots are lightweight, portable, and need no equipment on the roof.
One person can deploy multiple robots to the building's facades and let the robots do the rest.
Once they're done, the building owner not only has a clean building but also a digital twin of the building exterior for documenting health and identifying issues before they become risks.
Robot spots a crack? Noted! 📄
They're equipped with onboard cameras that scan the surface, detect window frames to crawl over, and ensure not a spot is missed. That means a consistent result and thorough inspection every time.
Onboard sensors continuously detect motion, location, and the surface beneath and around it.
The data feeds to a hub that analyzes the surface in real time, building datasets that become the backbone of a digital twin for predictive maintenance.
Love seeing the specialized robots bringing value from day 0! :)
I thought pretty hard about trying to do this some years back. My concept was more of a suspended gondola (which itself could triangulate to any point on the side of a building by having two winches + cables) with several tethered drones attached which would scrub windows and cling to them with suction. The gondola would provide power, cleaning solution and a waste return.
It's interesting that they went with climbing, but I'm sure it doesn't work on all facade types.
Not even that titanium plate on which you stamped down your seed phrase
This is really cool