The Lucid Bots Sherpa drone can cover over 300 sq. ft. per minute. | Credit: Lucid Bots
Lucid Bots Inc., an autonomous exterior cleaning company, today announced it has raised an oversubscribed $20 million Series B round co-led by Cubit Capital and Idea Fund Partners. The investors also included Taylor Rhodes, WaterStone Impact Fund, and Front Porch Ventures, in addition to existing investors.
The raise brings Lucid Bots’ total funding to $34 million. The Charlotte, N.C.-based company said it will use the funding for commercial operations and expanding its domestic manufacturing capacity. Lucid Bots also plans to accelerate the rollout of its robotics-as-a-service (RaaS) offering, Lucid Refresh — its full-service subscription platform for exterior cleaning operators.
Lucid Bots expands its product line
The drone provider said it has experienced rapid growth, increasing deployments from 100 to nearly 700 units in less than five months.
On the product side, Lucid Bots has launched several new features. Its Sherpa drone now supports the spraying of sealing/coating additives as well as paint. To support the new applications, the system can now be equipped with a power tether for unlimited flight time. By eliminating the battery, the drones are more efficient in the air and can lift more payload.
The launch of the power tether option has garnered nearly $1 million in pre-orders, according to Andrew Ashur, founder and CEO of Lucid Bots.
The other new product offering is the Lavo AI autonomous, ground-based, power-washing mobile robot. Lavo is designed to power wash sidewalks, driveways, and parking lots. Lucid Bots noted that its existing service providers can quickly expand their offerings to include these areas.
“We’re on an ambitious journey to give software a body to do physically productive work that the world needs and become the USA’s leading supplier of modular drones and robots,” said Ashur. “This capital allows us to meet the massive market demand we’re seeing today while expanding our product offerings and accelerating our manufacturing and autonomy goals. The next 18 months will be transformative for our product roadmap and the industry at large.”
Both platforms are manufactured at Lucid Bots’ 25,000-sq.-ft. facility in Charlotte, which complies with federal mandates for domestic manufacturing. The company said this positions it to serve the growing number of commercial and government customers that require a U.S. footprint.
A platform built on operator success
At the core of Lucid Bots’ go-to-market strategy is the Lucid Refresh owner-operator business model. The company said it is building the industrial tools that enable these robotics service providers (RSP) to manage their own local businesses.
All of the training, software, and equipment is available to the operators through a single ongoing subscription. The operator brings the contract, and Lucid delivers everything needed to fulfill it.
“Our customers are running cleaning businesses,” said Vic Pellicano, president and chief platform officer of Lucid Bots. “They don’t need a robot; they need a way to take on jobs they couldn’t do before, execute them better than the competition, and do it without betting their company on a capital purchase. That’s what we built. It’s less like buying equipment and more like adding a robotics division to your business that you can deploy on any job, any time.”
Lucid Bots said its systems and operator network have generated more than $75 million in exterior cleaning revenue. The company asserted that this proves the core thesis behind its model: “Lucid wins when its operators win.”
The Sherpa platform can reduce job completion time by two to five times, and operators report payback periods of less than two months. With nearly 1,000 robots now in active operator hands, and 93% of new business originating from inbound interest, the company said it generated as much revenue in 2025 as it did in its first seven years combined.
Lucid Bots added that its customer base spans independent operators to enterprise-scale accounts, including Disney, Sunbelt Rentals, and commercial facilities managers across the U.S.
The Sherpa drone delivers automated window cleaning with professional safety at the push of a button. | Credit: Lucid Bots
Lucid claims a data advantage over the competition
All of the Lucid equipment uses the same data layer. This enables its customers to progress as the system becomes more intelligent over time. Lucid Bots said its systems have logged hundreds of thousands of hours of real-world exterior cleaning across building types, surface materials, weather conditions, and job configurations.
That operational dataset trains the AI systems embedded in every Lucid robot and improves with every job completed, the company explained. Over time, Lucid Bots said its robots will clean more precisely, adapt to job conditions, and produce more consistent results than any service relying on human judgment or a thinner data foundation ever could.
“The Lucid Sherpa drone has elevated our business to new heights, opening doors and differentiating ourselves from the competition,” said Ryan Godwin, owner of Godwin Facility Services. “We wouldn’t be where we are today without adding the Lucid Sherpa to our business.”
Founded in 2018, Lucid Bots is a member of the NVIDIA Inception Program and is actively developing its AI and autonomy capabilities in partnership with NVIDIA Corp.
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