In the fall of 2017, Andrew Ashur (Founder) watched window washers nearly lose their lives on a swing stage a hundred feet up in high wind, and thought there had to be a better way to keep a building clean. That question became Lucid Bots, built out of a Davidson College dorm room.

We lived this problem before we tried to solve it, starting as a cleaning company and servicing more than 100 properties by hand and by drone. That work taught us exactly what this job costs the people who do it, all the way down to a chemical burn. In 2019, Lucid Bots joined Y Combinator, one of the most competitive startup accelerators in the world, and turned that firsthand conviction into a commercial robotics company. Lucid Bots became the first company to commercially sell and support third party businesses using cleaning drone technology, opening an entirely new category of automated building maintenance.

As customers put Sherpa to work and saw the return on investment, in hours saved, injuries avoided, and jobs completed faster, the growth compounded. Lucid Bots has grown from a college dorm room into the fastest growing robotics manufacturer in the USA, one of the fastest growing companies in Charlotte, and a name on Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies list. To keep pace with that demand, Lucid Bots has raised $34 million in venture capital, funding used to scale manufacturing, expand the Sherpa platform, and put automated maintenance within reach of more of the customers who need it. What started with two men on a swing stage and $42 in the bank has grown into a robotics company operating at national scale, and the rate of innovation is only accelerating from here.