Mission
Rope-access work is one of the most dangerous trades in construction. We replace it with intelligent robotics, making facade inspection, diagnosis, and maintenance safer, faster, and more affordable.
Vision
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
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, signed contracts, and a first client demo on the horizon.
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
Our robots already scan facades across France, classifying 13 types of defects with vision AI trained on 35,000+ buildings, and turning every detection into a priced repair report in under a day.
The same platform adds high-pressure cleaning and sealant application, starting with glass facades and extending to stone and concrete.
Continuous monitoring, preventive repair, retrofit analysis, ending the need for human climbers on buildings entirely.