Industries

Six trades,
the same problem.

Not enough people for work that repeats. Here is where robotics currently fits each industry we serve, which equipment applies, and the numbers behind it.

Pressure Washing Contractors

Exterior cleaning is where robotics reached the trades first. Drone-mounted and ground-based washing systems take the facades, roofs, and heights that would otherwise need a lift, a harness, or a shutdown — and the same crew covers more buildings in a day.

$1.2B
Annual revenue of the US pressure washing services industry.
IBISWorld, 2026
32,193
Pressure washing businesses in the US — highly fragmented, few large operators.
IBISWorld, 2024
Equipment that fits Pressure/Soft Washing Inspection

Solar

Soiling is a measurable, recurring loss on every array, and manual cleaning does not scale across a utility-scale site. Vegetation between and beneath rows is the other recurring cost, and both are schedulable work a robot handles well.

3–5%
Of annual PV energy production lost to soiling across typical installations.
IEA-PVPS
up to 7%
Annual energy lost to soiling in the dustiest parts of the United States.
IEA-PVPS

Facilities Management

Large interior floors are the clearest case for autonomous cleaning: the same route to the same standard every night, which frees a cleaning crew for the work that actually needs judgment. Turnover in this sector makes consistency hard to buy any other way.

$110B
Size of the US janitorial services market.
IBISWorld, 2025
200–400%
Average annual staff turnover across commercial cleaning.
ISSA

Property Management

A multi-site portfolio turns one-off exterior jobs into recurring schedules, and turns condition documentation into an insurance and warranty requirement. Robots suit both: predictable repeat work, and getting a camera somewhere nobody should be standing.

389
Fatal falls to a lower level in US construction in 2024.
US Bureau of Labor Statistics
14 years
Consecutive years fall protection has been OSHA’s most-cited violation.
OSHA, 2024

Landscaping

Recurring mowing and growth control is predictable, repetitive, and rarely needs a skilled operator on every pass — which is exactly the shape of work a robot absorbs. For most operators the constraint is not demand, it is finding people.

$188.8B
Size of the US landscaping services market, employing more than 1.4 million people.
IBISWorld, 2025
72%
Owners naming labor availability and retention as their biggest barrier to growth.
Industry survey, 2025
Equipment that fits Vegetation Management

Utilities

Vegetation management around overhead lines is often the single largest line item in an operations budget, and inspection work usually means sending someone up a structure. Both are recurring, both are compliance-driven, and both are candidates for automation.

$6–8B
Spent every year by US power utilities on vegetation management around overhead lines.
Accenture estimate, via industry reporting
$9.83B
Global drone inspection and monitoring market, growing about 16.4% a year.
Emergen Research, 2025
Equipment that fits Vegetation Management Inspection

These are published third-party estimates, not ServiceBots figures. Each is attributed to its source and year, and describes the industry rather than our own results.

Not sure where your operation fits?

Most businesses we talk to have never used robotics before. The Assessment exists to work out whether it fits yours, before anyone buys anything.

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