Charlotte business cleaning up by using drone tech

The founder of Lucid Drone Technologies, Andrew Ashur, started the company in 2018. He told WCNC Charlotte he started it after seeing window washers on a platform on a windy day.
"It was a pretty windy day, and you saw this platform just get caught in the wind start slamming against the side of the building," Ashur remembered. "And you saw these window washers hanging onto the rails for dear life. And I remember just thinking to myself, how could we find a way to leverage technology to make this a safer, more efficient job?"
An economics and Spanish major at Davidson College at the time, Ashur started learning how to build an industrial drone.
"[It] could physically affect the world around it by doing some kind of productive, labor intensive type of task, like cleaning," he said.
At the height of the pandemic, the facility team at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta heard about the company.
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