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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.

3× Faster. Zero Lifts. Same Great Finish.

When VEMAC needed to stain a series of large tilt-up concrete wall panels, they faced the same problem many builders encounter: slow, expensive, and risky work at height. Setting up lifts, repositioning between panels, and sending crews up and down all day consumed time, labor, and budget.

Lucid Bots’ Sherpa Drone changed that.

In a pilot on a 400 sq. ft. panel, Sherpa Drone applied two full coats in just 13 minutes, compared to 44 minutes with a traditional man lift. The crew stayed safely on the ground the entire time.

Sherpa Drone reduced labor time by 70%, eliminated lift use, and proved that vertical finishing can be done faster, safer, and more efficiently.

Why Tilt-Up Matters Now

Tilt-up construction is experiencing a major resurgence, driven by the rapid growth of data centers, logistics hubs, and large-scale industrial buildings.

Developers and general contractors are choosing tilt-up because it’s faster to build, structurally durable, and cost-effective for massive footprints. However, the finishing process—especially staining and coating—remains one of the most time-consuming steps.

That’s where Sherpa Drone comes in. By automating coating at height, Sherpa Drone removes one of the last manual bottlenecks in large-scale concrete construction, helping crews meet the high-speed demands of modern industrial projects.

The Challenge

VEMAC’s teams pride themselves on quality. Their finishing standards demand smooth coverage, consistent color, and no missed areas. But on large tilt-up projects, production speed was limited by lift logistics. Each new panel required new setup, safety checks, and careful maneuvering—costing valuable time across an entire site.

With project timelines tightening and labor costs rising, VEMAC needed a faster, safer, and more scalable way to apply coatings.

The Sherpa Drone Solution

Sherpa Drone is Lucid Bots’ aerial work platform designed for large-scale exterior maintenance and finishing. It replaces lifts and scaffolding with an intelligent, tethered drone system capable of precise spraying, washing, and coating applications at height.

At VEMAC’s El Paso job site, a Sherpa Drone equipped with a stain sprayer module applied two coats of H&C Colortop concrete stain. Operated by a ground pilot and supported by a two-person crew, the drone maintained consistent coverage and uniform finish across the test panel.

The entire process—from takeoff to the final coat—took less than 15 minutes, with no workers leaving the ground.

The Results

The Sherpa Drone dramatically outperforms traditional methods in both efficiency and safety. It completes two coats over 400 sq ft 3.4× faster (13 minutes vs. 44 minutes) while eliminating the need for workers at height, making the process 100% safer. Setup and teardown times drop by 85%, and the drone’s coverage rate improves from 9 to 61 sq ft per minute, a 6.7× increase in productivity.

Safety and Efficiency in One Flight

Each Sherpa Drone flight keeps the entire crew safely on the ground. There are no harnesses, no OSHA lift paperwork, and no exposure to height-related risks.

Crews can focus on mixing, material prep, and quality checks while the Sherpa Drone handles the vertical work. This parallel workflow boosts overall site productivity and reduces downtime.

Real ROI in Minutes

With Sherpa Drone, VEMAC achieved:

• 65%+ reduction in labor hours per panel
• 100% elimination of lift rentals
• 70% reduction in total application time
  

Across a large project with dozens of panels, this performance translates into days of time saved and measurable labor cost reductions.

Why It Matters

For modern contractors, productivity and safety are the key drivers of profitability. Sherpa Drone enables both:

• Speed: Complete vertical coating work up to 3–5× faster
• Safety: Keep every worker on the ground
• Consistency: Smooth, repeatable coverage across every panel
• Flexibility: Swap payloads for painting, staining, washing, or inspection
  

VEMAC’s pilot showed that Sherpa Drone isn’t just a prototype—it’s a practical way to modernize how tilt-up and exterior finishing work gets done.

Looking Ahead

After the success of this pilot, VEMAC is exploring Sherpa Drone for additional applications including media blasting, surface prep, and protective coating. These operations share the same challenge: repetitive, at-height labor that slows projects down.

Sherpa Drone’s ability to automate these tasks at scale positions it as a key tool for the next generation of construction and maintenance workflows.

See It in Action

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Schedule a live demo and see how Sherpa Drone can cut your labor time in half—or better.

Lucid Bots successfully tested its new application sprayer module to protect the concrete facade at Alcorn State Stadium’s facade in a fraction of the time, validating a safer, faster, and more cost-effective approach to concrete and building envelope protection.

300%  more efficient than traditional methods.
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80% cost savings vs. traditional methods.

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Overview

At Jack Spinks-Marino Casem Stadium in Lorman, Mississippi, Lucid Bots partnered with contractor FlyByShine to test its next-generation sprayer module designed for drone-based drone-based water repellent application. Using PROSOCO’s industry leading water repellent, Siloxane WB Concentrate, the project demonstrated how Lucid Bots’ technology can transform large-scale concrete protection.

“By the time you scaffold a building like this and put the product on, work through all of any kind of tweaks that need to be done...I would say it’s a lot faster, 20 times”
— Bill Daniel, Prosoco

The Challenge

Traditional Methods Are Too Slow, Risky, and Expensive

Waterproofing stadiums and other vertical concrete assets has always been a costly and time-consuming process. Scaffolding or lifts must be rented and assembled, and workers are sent up as high as 90 feet in the air. This increases liability, slows down timelines, and often discourages facility managers from performing necessary maintenance.

The Solution

Lucid Bots’ Sprayer Module Proves Its Value

Lucid Bots deployed its Sherpa drone with the new application sprayer module to apply Prosoco’s siloxane-based sealer directly to the stadium facade. Partnering with Fly By Shine for on-site operations, Lucid demonstrated that thousands of square feet could be waterproofed in a single day—without scaffolding, lifts, or worker risk at height.

Key Outcomes:

• 4x Faster than traditional methods
  
  
• 80% Cost Savings vs. scaffolding and lifts
  
  
• Safer by keeping crews on the ground
  
  
• Consistent, Professional Finish meeting manufacturer standards
  
  

Customer Validation

FlyByShine’s team provided field feedback during the test and confirmed the commercial potential of the solution:

“Before another contractor could even get scaffolding up, we were already done. The simplicity of what we just did is shocking.”
— Ric McCluskey, Owner, Fly By Shine

“It’s really safe. Nobody is 90 feet in the air — the drone does the work.”
— John Young, Prosoco

Looking Ahead

This successful trial confirmed that Lucid Bots’ sealing solution is ready to move into beta with select partners. The company is packaging the module into a Sealing Kit including payload, pump, regulators, hose, and intuitive software, enabling contractors to deliver faster, safer, and more profitable sealing jobs.

Key Takeaway: Lucid Bots is redefining infrastructure maintenance. By eliminating scaffolding and lifts, reducing costs, and improving safety, the new sprayer module empowers contractors like FlyByShine to take on projects once considered too complex, costly, or risky.

Robots are not apps. You cannot A/B test your way to a machine that changes an industry. You have to ship, stand next to customers while it works, and take responsibility for the outcome.

We have deployed 500 robots into real businesses. It took five years to go from 0 to 100. We went from 400 to 500 in four months.

We are sharing a non-exhaustive list of what we learned in hopes that it helps others think clearly about robotics. It is an important and still nascent industry, and our vantage point is unique because we build, deploy, service, and scale robots in the field every day, from Charlotte, NC.

Our three fundamental beliefs about the future

1. Robots are the future of dull, dirty, dangerous, and demeaning jobs. Robots increase human dignity by removing work that ruins bodies and shortens careers.
2. Robots must be built in the United States. A domestic supply chain is essential for economic resilience and national security.
3. Robots plus automation unlock human abundance. Everything that moves will be automated over time.

1) Master one job, design for expansion

Reputation is currency in the trades. You earn it by mastering one task first and becoming the reliable tool crews ask for. That first win proves you can deliver a robot people trust and businesses rely on.

Think LEGO, not Swiss Army knife. A Swiss Army knife can technically do many things, but none as well as a purpose-built tool and it rarely holds up in industrial or professional use. Build a common brain and stable base with standardized connection points, then add specialized payloads only when the job requires them. Architect for expansion while you execute, so new capabilities click into the same system without a ground-up rebuild.

This is the NVIDIA arc: start with a concrete performance problem in graphics, build a repeatable architecture, then extend the same core into new workloads and markets. Robotics should follow the same pattern: master one job, keep the base constant, and add specialized payloads and software as new bricks.

Generalist robots that are mediocre at everything always lose to robots that are great at the task at hand in real commercial and industrial settings. I don’t care what the headlines say. Adoption in B2B robotics always comes down to ROI.

Marketing doesn’t win. Proof and clear ROI in the field wins at scale.

2) Focus on transformative ROI

Marketing gets you a meeting. Proven outcomes get you adoption. In serious commercial settings, pilots are auditions, not victories.

Our bar

• Up to 5x faster. A radical shift in how the work is done, not an incremental improvement. Customers need a compelling reason to switch from the status quo.
• We emphasize growth and efficiency over simple labor reduction: throughput per crew, revenue per day, job cycle time, consistency, and rework avoided.
• Proof comes from production jobs, not demos.

Sidebar: Why B2B adoption beats B2C

Household robotics has allure, but adoption lags even for products that work and are affordable. Quick show of hands: what percent of your neighbors run robot lawn mowers? They have been around for years, often cost under $1,000, and still see low penetration. In B2B, the buyer has an active P&L and adopts when the job gets done faster, safer, and more profitably. That is where the next wave of robotic adoption will compound.

3) Own the customer relationship

Integrate hardware, software, training, service, and parts so you own the outcome. That earns trust and creates a distribution moat through workflow integration, training, and the internal playbooks your customers build around your platform.

Owning the outcome also makes you faster. If you do not own repairs or training, every product update creates drag and cost. Control the loop, iterate quickly, and keep customers happy through change.

4) Control the full stack: software is not enough

Early advice we heard: focus on software and let someone else handle hardware. That is the quickest way to be three layers removed from your user and to lose control of reliability and iteration.

Hard take: If you want to sell to customers who use the product every day, outsourcing the physical stack is the dumbest thing you can do. You will be slow to fix issues, slow to improve, and you will not own the future of your product.

Why full stack control wins

• Reliability and safety. You control tolerances, power, thermals, EMI, sensing, and failure modes. That is where uptime is won.
• Iteration speed. Hardware, firmware, and software evolve together. You ship coordinated updates instead of waiting on vendor roadmaps.
• Serviceability and telemetry. Consistent interfaces and LTE connected diagnostics make field support fast and predictable.
• Independence. You are not gated by third party repair loops or parts bans. You can fix defects and improve the product on your schedule.

Owning the stack is not about perfection. It is about earning the right to improve fast in the real world.

5) Reliability and customer success are non-negotiable

You win only when your customer wins. Customer wins and reliability are your marketing. Measure it and organize the company around improving it.

How we measure progress

• Our north star is Robot Operating Minutes (ROM). More minutes doing productive work means customers are winning.
• We track the ratio of operating hours to customer issues and work to improve it continually.

Most customers do not expect perfection with frontier tech. They expect visible progress, quick action, and clear communication when something goes wrong.

6) Robots are learning and data platforms

A production robot should both do work and produce a stream of high quality operational data. This data improves autonomy, reduces downtime, informs preventive maintenance, and opens software revenue. Tesla is a useful parallel: large scale deployments created the driving data that now powers Full Self Driving. The same logic applies in industrial robotics.

The goal is not to simply sell data. Use it to deliver better outcomes and, where appropriate, monetize the insight stream.

7) Supply chain is strategy

You cannot service customers if you cannot build and repair machines. Component choices, vendor depth, domestic availability, and test coverage matter. Invest early in:

• Second sources for critical parts
• Clear QA and QC at incoming, in process, and final assembly
• Bills of materials that are stable and serviceable in the field
• Spare parts logistics that match your installed base

A great supply chain turns reliability into a habit, not an act of heroism.

8) Build in the USA: resilience, security, velocity

Building domestically is not about symbolism. It is a performance choice.

• Economic resilience. Domestic sourcing shortens lead times, reduces single points of failure, and avoids customs and port delays that stall revenue.
• National security. Critical infrastructure depends on trustworthy supply chains. A U.S. based stack reduces exposure to geopolitical shocks and policy whiplash.
• Data privacy and control. When hardware, firmware, and fleet data are under domestic control, compliance is simpler and customer risk is lower.

Service speed is the most visible difference. Before we built our own systems, we relied on international technology. Repairs routinely took months. With DJI, our average turnaround was about 4.5 months, and some units never returned. International shipping and queue times erased revenue opportunities. When a robot is a P&L asset, a quarter without it is unacceptable. Domestic design, parts, and repair centers mean fixes in days, not months.

This shift is happening across categories. For products that matter to operations, domestic build is becoming the default expectation.

9) Operations are as hard as the tech

Standing up a facility, production line, vendor management, technician training, and repair flows is real work. Scalable hardware powered by software and electronics is even harder. The best way to deliver a scalable robot is to focus relentlessly on quality. Treat service as a product. Design for maintainability: fast access to wear parts, diagnostic telemetry, and procedures that a field tech can run in minutes. Connectivity is critical. If you send robots into the wild without LTE, your ability to troubleshoot and support customers will struggle. Ubiquitous connectivity is how you manage a growing fleet.

Robots are like cars. Even with a century of learning, cars still need tires, oil, and brake pads regularly changed. Your robots will need planned maintenance and unplanned repairs. Design the machine and the org for that reality.

10) Training beats turnover

Many industrial customers have high crew turnover. If your training assumes a stable team, the deployment will stall. Make training easy, accessible, and scalable so a new operator can become productive quickly and safely.

11) Field time compounds

One hour on a job site is worth ten in the office. You will learn more standing with a customer than you will in any simulator. Ship, observe, fix, and repeat. The feedback loop is where moats form.

We require every employee to attend at least one job site per year, regardless of role. If you are in engineering, customer success, sales, and adjacent teams, it is many more. Field time sharpens judgment and keeps the whole company grounded in customer outcomes.

12) Move fast to learn, not just to move

Speed without learning is noise. Move fast when you can extract a new truth from the field. Slow down when changes stop teaching you.

A simple guardrail: every change ships with a hypothesis and a metric. If you cannot write both in a sentence, you are guessing.

13) Solve for problems, not features

Customers change behavior when you change their economics. Focus on big, frequent, painful work and aim for step changes, not marginal gains. Always anchor on the customer problem. Robots that do not solve real world problems are useless. Features that impress in demos but fail on job sites do not matter. Keep asking: does this change an outcome the P&L can feel?

14) Be inevitable, not just innovative

Pick markets where adoption is a matter of when, not if: labor shortages, safety exposure, and chronic inefficiency. Show up with a working product, a clear ROI, and a plan to support it for years. That is what leadership looks like.

15) Build the team you can trust, then listen to them

Robotics is a team sport. Hire people who take ownership, who will meet you at midnight at a customer site, and who tell you the truth

The next decade will be decided by deployed minutes, not demos or press cycles. Our north star is Robot Operating Minutes because minutes compound into learning, reliability, and customer trust. That is how Tesla turned fleet miles into Full Self Driving and how NVIDIA turned a graphics engine into a compute platform. Robotics follows the same pattern: specialize, deploy, learn, expand.

We build in the United States because resilience matters. We focus on B2B because outcomes are measurable. We design like LEGO so new payloads click into a proven base. We own the outcome so iteration is fast and support is real.

If you are building, chase customer outcomes over features. If you are buying, demand radical performance, not incrementalism. If you are investing, back teams that ship, service, and learn in the field.

Robots are the arms and legs of AI. Done right, they raise productivity, improve safety, and increase human prosperity. We are just getting started. See you at 1,000.

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Figure hits a $39B valuation as investors double down on humanoid robots built for real-world jobs. Galway-based Forge Robotics joins Y Combinator, plugging Ireland’s robotics scene into Silicon Valley’s accelerator network. And Uber Eats is partnering with Flytrex to bring FAA-approved drone deliveries directly into its app—pushing autonomous last-mile logistics closer to the mainstream.

Robotics startup Figure valued at $39 billion in latest funding round

Figure, a California-based company focused on humanoid robotics, has successfully raised fresh funding, which establishes its valuation at $39 billion. This substantial valuation underscores surging investor confidence regarding the commercial potential of general-purpose robots. The startup is actively developing humanoid robots specifically engineered to handle a variety of industrial and service assignments, including essential tasks in manufacturing support and warehouse environments. The newly acquired capital is designated for expanding production capacity, growing the engineering team, and expediting broader commercialization efforts. Financial backers have indicated that Figure is favorably positioned to capitalize on recent advancements in specialized hardware and artificial intelligence, developments that are rendering sophisticated humanoid robots increasingly practical and highly capable.

Major Takeaway: With a multibillion-dollar valuation, Figure is rapidly emerging as a frontrunner in the competitive humanoid robotics race, effectively demonstrating how investors are strategically betting on robots that possess the flexibility to handle diverse real-world functions. Read More

Forge Robotics joins Y Combinator to scale robotic automation from Galway

The Irish startup Forge Robotics, based in Galway, has secured acceptance into Y Combinator, providing the company with a powerful platform to accelerate its growth and global presence. This acceptance integrates Ireland’s burgeoning robotics sector directly into Silicon Valley’s influential accelerator network. Forge Robotics focuses on manufacturing robotic automation systems for manufacturing and logistics sectors. Their core product strategy revolves around developing modular, flexible platforms designed to adapt seamlessly across different industries. Participation in the program is intended to help the company refine its product offering, attract new talent, and foster connections with international investors. Its inclusion highlights the increasing trend of Europe’s robotics ecosystem becoming integrated within the global startup pipeline centered in Silicon Valley.

Major Takeaway: Forge Robotics’ entry into Y Combinator signals the growing globalization of robotics innovation, illustrating how startups situated outside major technological centers can effectively connect with crucial global networks and capital. Read More

Uber Eats to expand drone deliveries through Flytrex partnership

Uber Eats is partnering with drone startup Flytrex to broaden the scope of food delivery conducted by air, commencing deployment in specific metropolitan areas across the United States. Flytrex contributes the essential flight systems and hardware, having recently obtained necessary FAA approval for nationwide Beyond-Visual-Line-of-Sight (BVLOS) operations. Uber Eats will integrate this aerial service directly into its consumer application. The initiative is designed to achieve multiple benefits: reducing delivery times, mitigating traffic congestion, and providing customers with swift, contactless service. If successful, this strategic partnership holds the potential to transition drone-based last-mile logistics into a widely accepted, mainstream commercial practice.

Major Takeaway: By establishing this partnership with Flytrex, Uber Eats is making a significant investment in drones to transform the food delivery landscape, introducing enhanced autonomy, scale, and speed to essential last-mile logistics operations. Read More

About Lucid Bots

Founded in 2018, Lucid Bots is an AI robotics company that is committed to uplifting humanity by building the world's most productive and responsible robots that can do dangerous and demanding tasks.

Headquartered in Charlotte, the company engineers, manufactures, and supports its products domestically, which include the Sherpa, a cleaning drone, and the Lavo Bot, a pressure-washing robot.

Lucid Bots' products are elevating safety and efficiency for a growing number of customers around the world. Lucid is a Y Combinator-backed company, with investments from Cubit Capital, Idea Fund Partners, Danu Ventures, and others. Lucid Bots was recently recognized as the fastest growing robotics manufacturer in the United States.

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Autonomy is scaling fast as Kodiak rolls out its first factory-built self-driving truck, Nvidia and OpenAI back a multibillion-dollar UK AI infrastructure push, and HARR-E brings on-demand robotics to urban trash collection.

Nvidia and OpenAI to back major investment in UK AI infrastructure

Nvidia and OpenAI are joining forces to support a multibillion-dollar investment in the UK’s AI infrastructure, aiming to strengthen the country’s position as a global leader in artificial intelligence. The funding will go toward building advanced data centers, expanding access to cutting-edge GPUs, and supporting research in AI and robotics. UK officials say the investment will accelerate innovation across industries, from healthcare to autonomous systems, while reducing dependence on foreign compute resources. The move highlights the growing geopolitical significance of AI infrastructure in shaping economic competitiveness.

Major Takeaway: With Nvidia and OpenAI backing, the UK is set to rapidly expand its AI capabilities—building the compute backbone needed for future breakthroughs in robotics and beyond. Read More

Kodiak Robotics delivers its first factory-made autonomous truck

Kodiak Robotics has rolled out its first factory-produced autonomous truck, marking a milestone in the commercialization of self-driving freight. Built in partnership with a major OEM, the truck integrates Kodiak’s autonomous driving system directly on the factory floor rather than as a retrofit. This streamlines production, improves reliability, and signals readiness for large-scale deployment. The company says the trucks will be used in long-haul freight operations, targeting cost savings and efficiency for logistics providers while addressing driver shortages.

Major Takeaway: By moving from retrofits to factory production, Kodiak is signaling that autonomous trucking is shifting from experimental pilots to scalable, real-world deployment. Read More

New HARR-E robot lets you summon trash pickup like Uber for your garbage

A new service featuring the HARR-E robot is bringing on-demand waste collection to neighborhoods, letting residents summon trash pickup through an app much like calling an Uber. The autonomous, wheeled robot navigates streets to collect garbage and transport it to designated processing points. Designed to reduce missed collections and improve urban cleanliness, HARR-E also integrates with smart city infrastructure for efficient routing and scheduling. Developers see the system as a scalable way to modernize waste management and cut reliance on traditional collection trucks.

Major Takeaway: By turning trash collection into an on-demand robotic service, HARR-E shows how everyday city infrastructure is getting smarter, cleaner, and more autonomous. Read More

About Lucid Bots

Founded in 2018, Lucid Bots is an AI robotics company that is committed to uplifting humanity by building the world's most productive and responsible robots that can do dangerous and demanding tasks.

Headquartered in Charlotte, the company engineers, manufactures, and supports its products domestically, which include the Sherpa, a cleaning drone, and the Lavo Bot, a pressure-washing robot.

Lucid Bots' products are elevating safety and efficiency for a growing number of customers around the world. Lucid is a Y Combinator-backed company, with investments from Cubit Capital, Idea Fund Partners, Danu Ventures, and others. Lucid Bots was recently recognized as the fastest growing robotics manufacturer in the United States.

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