Mission
Take people off the ropes
Rope-access work is one of the most dangerous trades in construction. The crew stays on the roof and the robot goes down the facade, making facade cleaning and inspection safer, faster, and more affordable.
Building the future of
facade maintenance
Vision
A world where no worker risks their life on a facade
Build the world's largest dataset of facades, so no rope access technician ever has to risk their life on a wall again.
How VitroBOT started
From rope access to robotics
VitroBOT started with a near-death experience
Théo, our COO, was a professional rope access worker, the kind of person who rappels down skyscrapers to clean and inspect glass facades. One day, a rope failure almost killed him.
That was the moment Enguerand, his brother and our CEO, decided the problem wasn't the worker. It was the job itself.
In 30 days at Founders Inc in San Francisco, they went from a $1,000 prototype to a working robot on real glass. Six months later: a full computer vision system and signed letters of intent for paid pilots in Europe.
VitroBOT exists because some jobs shouldn't be done by humans
The founders
Théo Jouanno (COO), Enguerand Chretien (CEO), and Jean-Philippe Winckler (CTO) at the first working prototype
Today and tomorrow
Cleaning first, inspection next
- 2026
Cleaning robots, leased
Suction cleaning robots on a proven partner platform, leased by the month to window-cleaning contractors. Paid pilots lined up in Europe, US pilots booking for 2027.
- 2027
Our inspection robot
Built in-house: it scans the facade in 3D, flags 13 types of defects with vision AI and turns them into a repair quote in VitroBOT Cloud, on the buildings the cleaning robots serve.
- 2028+
Full autonomous maintenance
Continuous monitoring, preventive repair, retrofit analysis, ending the need for human climbers on buildings entirely.