A New Era of Autonomous Cleaning: Lavo AI

Lavo Bot AI brings enterprise-grade autonomy to one of the most demanding exterior maintenance tasks. Using Click-and-Clean™ job templates powered by Lucid OS™, operators can set up, save, and repeat complex cleaning routes with only a few taps, eliminating hours of manual prep work.

With advanced mapping, full-environment sensing, and powered by NVIDIA edge compute, Lavo Bot AI navigates real facilities with confidence and delivers consistent, high-quality cleaning at scale. This is autonomy designed for real job sites, not just controlled environments.

The system can clean up to 6,000 square feet per hour and integrates with commercial pressure washing rigs up to 20 GPM and 4,500 PSI. Early adopters are already seeing what it means to unlock more output without adding more headcount.

Why it matters

Facility teams are being asked to do more with fewer people as the United States janitorial and building maintenance market reaches ~$108B. Labor shortages continue to grow, service expectations are rising, and operators are under pressure to maintain cleaner, safer exterior environments while also reducing costs. Within this market, exterior surface cleaning alone represents $15 to $22B  dollars in recurring annual work, most of which is still performed manually.

Despite the size of the industry, autonomous systems account for well under one percent of all surface cleaning operations today. Most facilities rely on slow and physically demanding manual workflows that limit throughput and make scheduling unpredictable. Lavo Bot AI gives operators an immediate path to higher productivity, consistent quality, and more reliable service delivery. The robot augments crews rather than replacing them and allows existing teams to cover significantly more ground with far less strain, making exterior maintenance more scalable and cost effective.

How It Works

Lavo Bot AI uses the latest NVIDIA edge compute platform to power its autonomy, vision systems, and mapping intelligence. These capabilities allow the robot to move safely through real-world environments and produce enterprise-grade results.

Key capabilities include:

• Autonomy that lasts. Operators can save job areas and rerun them with precise route memory on a recurring schedule.
• Safety for active job sites. Multi-sensor vision systems and zone-based geofencing support safe operation around people and equipment.
• Purpose-built durability. The robot can handle long hose runs and challenging outdoor conditions including grime, gum, grease, and inconsistent surface textures.

Customer perspective

"You recover the investment in just a couple of months," said Francisco Oliveras, owner of PWR Wash PR. "With this approach, you can reduce operating expenses by 40% or more." 

Availability

Limited pilot programs begin this winter, with general availability planned for Q2 2026. Pre‑orders open today. Live demo events are scheduled for January. 

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If you’re running a small building-services or cleaning business, you’ve probably heard some buzz about the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA).

You don’t need to be a tax expert to understand it. This bill is a big win for small business owners investing in equipment that helps them grow.

Here’s what it means in simple terms, and how it could save you thousands when you buy a Sherpa Drone before the end of 2025.

What the Big Beautiful Bill Does

According to EisnerAmper’s Contractor’s Cheat Sheet, the OBBBA makes several long-term updates to U.S. tax law designed to boost construction, maintenance, and building upgrades.

Here are the two most important changes for small business owners buying tools or equipment:

1. Permanent 100% Bonus Depreciation
   
   Contractors and building-services companies can now deduct the full cost of qualifying equipment immediately, starting January 2025.
   
   That means if you buy a Lucid Bots Sherpa Drone, a Sherpa Drone and Tethered system, or our Lavo Bot and Sherpa Drone combo,  you could potentially write off the entire amount this year and not spread it over 5 or 7 years like before.
   
   EisnerAmper notes that this provision now applies to both new and used assets, and it’s permanent, so you get the deduction right away, improving your cash flow.
   
   
2. Expanded Section 179 Deduction
   
   The OBBBA also raises the Section 179 deduction limit to $2.5 million, with a phase-out beginning at $4 million.
   
   Section 179 lets small businesses deduct equipment purchases that are actively used for work. So this is your trucks, pressure washers, and yes even our drones.
   
   As EisnerAmper’s Real Estate update explains, this expansion makes Section 179 far more powerful for smaller operators, especially those upgrading tools, vehicles, or building systems.
   
   

How This Works in Real Life

Let’s say you run a small exterior-cleaning or maintenance company and earned $300,000 in profit this year.

You decide to purchase a Lucid Sherpa Drone for $90,000 in November 2025.

If you qualify under Section 179 or 100% bonus depreciation, you can deduct that full $90,000 from your taxable income lowering your taxable earnings to $210,000.

That could translate to tens of thousands of dollars in tax savings, depending on your state and filing status.

Why Timing Matters

Many of these incentives  like 100% bonus depreciation and the higher Section 179 limits are tied to equipment placed in service after January 2025.

But here’s the key:

Projects and purchases made before the end of 2025 are best positioned to take full advantage of the bill before any future tax adjustments or sunsets kick in.

So, if you’ve been planning to expand your cleaning fleet, the 2025 tax year is your window to buy and deploy your equipment.

Why It’s Perfect for Lucid Bots Customers

Lucid Bots builds robots that help you do more with less. Our Sherpa Drones replace risky, slow manual cleaning work  letting you take on bigger jobs with the same crew.

Because drones like Sherpa qualify as business equipment, they can be deducted under the same rules outlined in EisnerAmper’s OBBBA analyses. That means your investment could reduce your tax bill while expanding your capacity.

And if you’re planning to grow your business in 2026, now might be the perfect time to purchase more than one drone to take more advantage of 2025’s powerful tax incentives before they change.

Important Note

This article is for informational purposes only.

It is not financial or tax advice.

Tax laws can change, and your business situation is unique. Always check with your licensed accountant or tax advisor to confirm eligibility before making purchasing decisions.

Bottom Line

The Big Beautiful Bill was designed to reward small businesses that invest in American infrastructure and that includes companies keeping our buildings clean, bright, and safe.

By purchasing your Lucid Bots drone before December 31, 2025, you can:

• Save big on taxes
• Boost cash flow
• Get to work faster with safer, smarter tech

In short: make 2025 the year your business takes flight  and let the Big Beautiful Bill help fund your future.

NVIDIA just announced a milestone that signals more than progress — it signals a shift in history. Over 2 million robotics developers are now building on its platforms, from Isaac Sim for simulation to Jetson for edge AI computing. This isn’t just a developer count; it’s the early scaffolding of the next industrial revolution.

The first industrial revolution mechanized human labor. The second scaled it with electricity and assembly lines. The third digitized it with computing and the internet. Now, the fourth industrial revolution is physical again — driven by embodied AI and robotics that can perceive, decide, and act in the real world.

At Lucid Bots, we are building for this moment. Our focus is on developing robotic systems that take on dangerous, dirty, and time-intensive jobs and preserve human value. We’re pushing forward technologies that protect people while scaling efficiency — transforming how work gets done in the built world.

NVIDIA as the Backbone of the Revolution

For Lucid Bots, NVIDIA’s ecosystem is more than validation — it’s infrastructure.

• Isaac Sim provides photorealistic simulation environments where we maintain digital twins of our Lavo Bot robots and Sherpa Drones. We run software-in-the-loop (SITL) and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) regression tests with stereo, RGB-D, LiDAR, and IMU sensor models. This tightens the sim-to-real loop and reduces risky, expensive field iterations.
  
  
• Isaac ROS GEMs are core to our autonomy stack. With Visual SLAM, our drones and ground robots gain a strong sense of position in real time even when GPS is weak or unavailable. For recurring missions, Map Localization enables a robot to recognize a site and align to a saved map within seconds. Together, these capabilities shorten deployment times, reduce operator workload, and ensure consistent, repeatable performance in tasks like high-precision surface cleaning, data capture, and inspection.
  
  
• Jetson edge compute powers real-time autonomy, enabling perception, obstacle avoidance, and sensor fusion directly onboard our robots.
  
  

Combined with a global community of 2M+ developers, this infrastructure accelerates R&D, de-risks deployment, and ensures Lucid Bots can move faster than the market.

The Market in Transition

We believe this revolution is already underway. Just as factories a century ago transformed productivity with machines, industries today will transform safety and efficiency with intelligent robots.

• Property and facilities management is a $1T+ global market, facing rising costs, labor shortages, and regulatory pressure.
• Legacy approaches — scaffolding, diesel light towers, and manual cleaning — are relics of the last era.
• Robotics doesn’t just replace these methods; it leapfrogs them, delivering safer, cleaner, and more cost-effective outcomes at scale.

Why Lucid Bots, Why Now

The industrial revolutions of the past favored companies that seized the moment when the right infrastructure converged with unmet demand. That’s exactly where we are today. NVIDIA’s milestone proves the infrastructure is here. The demand for safer, more efficient operations is only accelerating.

Lucid Bots is positioned at this intersection. Our systems are not science projects — they are field-tested, revenue-generating platforms, designed for immediate deployment at scale.

For investors and pioneers, the story is clear: the fourth industrial revolution is no longer on the horizon. We’re building it — and delivering it — now.

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