VitroBOT exists because gravity does not negotiate. Every year 200+ people die cleaning building facades, clipped to ropes, trusting gear that has barely evolved since the last century. A $40B industry still runs on pulleys, muscle, and silence. We call it maintenance. The workers call it risk. Everyone else looks away and signs the invoice.
Picture the job without the brochure gloss. Human bodies hanging hundreds of feet above pavement, glass flexing in the wind, one mechanical failure from a headline nobody budgets for. Manual #facade cleaning still costs $20 to $30 per square meter. It still faces labor shortages. It still forces #property managers into an ugly trade between safety and spend. The inefficiency is not technical. It is cultural neglect.
VitroBOT walks straight into that neglect with no romance attached. Autonomous facade cleaning guided by #LIDAR, driven by AI, built with aerospace discipline. Real time #3D facade mapping, adaptive path planning, material aware cleaning pressure pushing 80 to 120 bars, and redundant #safety systems designed so humans are never the backup plan. The economics hit just as hard as the mission, roughly $3 per square meter with ROI modeled under 18 months. Same dirt. Same buildings. Entirely different consequences.
The credibility starts with @Enguerand Chretien. Aerospace robotics experience from Safran, where failure is measured in lives, not warranty claims. #IRATA-certified rope access layered on top, meaning Enguerand Chretien has done the job VitroBOT is building to eliminate. This is not theory or sympathy. It is scar tissue converted into system design by someone who understands facade geometry because he has lived inside it.
@Maxime Blondel joining the journey adds a different kind of gravity. As co-founder and CEO of @The Quest, backed by @Kima Ventures, Maxime Blondel has built a reputation for identifying deeptech teams before categories harden. His involvement signals focus on scale, production, and operational rigor, the unglamorous work that turns prototypes into fleets and pilots into revenue.
The timing is structural. High-rise construction keeps climbing. Skilled rope access labor keeps shrinking. The facade cleaning #robot market already sits north of $1B and is projected to multiply over the next decade. Standards are not locked. Pricing is not fixed. Expectations are still forming. VitroBOT is not chasing noise. It is positioning to define what normal looks like when humans stop risking their lives to clean buildings.
This is a seed moment with Series ambition baked in. Capital here does not just buy growth. It buys velocity toward a world where facade cleaning stops killing people and starts behaving like modern infrastructure. If you are building, investing, or partnering where engineering actually matters, VitroBOT deserves attention now, not later.
