The document discusses wall-climbing inspection robots and their potential applications. It describes the inventor, Professor Xiao, and his wall-climbing robots called City-Climbers. It then discusses potential uses of the robots for building inspections, industrial inspections, and other applications like window cleaning. It outlines business models, pricing, partnerships, and routes to commercialization.

1. city climber
wall-climbing inspection robots
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2. team
• Professor of robotics at CUNY City College
• Inventor of City-Climber wall-climbing robots
• Co-founder and Senior Technical Advisor of InnovBot
• Recipient of NSF CAREER Award, 2007
Jizhong Xiao / PI
• NYC-based Academic Industrialist
• Served as Chief Scientific Officer of biotech start-up until 2010
• Academic basic science research faculty for over 25 years
• Responsible for CUNY Industry-University Research Collaborations
John Blaho / IM
• MA candidate in Computer Science, CUNY Brooklyn College
• Experience in education technology, policy analysis, politics, teaching
• Author of chapter in forthcoming book on for-profit education startups
• Does the „robot‟ celebration after every video game soccer goal
Mickey Muldoon / EL

3. the first canvas
KEY PARTNERS KEY ACTIVITIES VALUE CUSTOMER CUSTOMER
PROPOSITION RELATIONSHIPS SEGMENTS
• Manufacturers • Continuous R&D • Cost/risk • Personal support • Property
• Large civil • Manufacturing reduction: for major management
engineering firms • Sales and window customers companies
• Military marketing cleaning, • Automated • Property owners
painting, or support for • Window cleaners
building exterior cheaper models • Military
inspection • Communities for • Construction and
• Performance: research and engineers
Reach difficult hobbyists • Academic
KEY RESOURCES spaces for CHANNELS research and
surveillance hobbyists
• Human: (e.g. tunnels, • Direct sales • Municipalities
engineers skyscrapers) • Government • Solar farms
• Intellectual: IP • Newness: for grant-writing • Dry docks
• Financial: R&D research and • Website • Oil rigs
money hobbyists
COST STRUCTURE REVENUE STREAMS
• Research and development • Unit or bulk sales
• Sales and marketing • Leasing units
• Manufacturing • Direct contracts for window washing or inspection
• Cost of raw parts • Military/police/naval contracts
• Installation revenue
• IP License/royalties

4. the canvas today
KEY PARTNERS KEY ACTIVITIES VALUE CUSTOMER CUSTOMER
PROPOSITION RELATIONSHIPS SEGMENTS
• Manufacturers • Continuous R&D • Cost reduction: • Mix of free and • Architecture and
• Component • Manufacturing replaces paid support for engineering
suppliers • Sales and scaffolds or lessees and robot companies
• CUNY marketing human rope owners • Non-destructive
climbers • Subscription testing service
• Risk reduction model: access to providers
(Safety) 1/2/3/4 robots at
• Speed a time
improvement
KEY RESOURCES • Performance: CHANNELS
Reach difficult
• Human: spaces for • Direct sales
engineers surveillance • Potential
• Intellectual: IP • Rapid distrib./licensing
• Financial: R&D deployment partnership
money
COST STRUCTURE REVENUE STREAMS
• Research and development • Unit or bulk sales
• Sales and marketing • Direct contracts/subcontracts for inspection
• Manufacturing • Extended warrantees, support
• Cost of raw parts • Daily rentals
• Labor: inspection services
• Warehouse space and maintenance

5. building inspection: here‟s what we thought
sell/lease robots
Our Property
company owners
$$

6. building inspection: here‟s what we found
 Ecosystem of third-party architects,
engineers, and inspection companies
 Other industrial inspection robots use daily
rental models
 Offering services on top of products is far
more profitable and sustainable
 Customers have little desire to maintain and
service their own robots
 Customers more interested in daily rentals
than yearly leases, if technology is new

7. building inspection: here‟s what changed
Sales, Rentals Primary
Leases, Subcontracts contracts
Our Property
Inspectors owners
company
$$ $$
Local
inspection
Build pathway over time, codes
will be more lucrative

8. pricing: here‟s what we thought
 Technology is unique
and patented We can charge a premium:
 Saves over costly and
dangerous human
scaffold work
 Other industrial
$20-50k
“crawlers” sell for
upwards of $50k

9. pricing: here‟s what we found
• Customers explain that
human inspectors are far
more versatile and
capable
• Disruptive innovation,
could replace centuries-
old inspection techniques
• Survey: $10k is the most
any engineering company
would pay
Deep price savings must be a major part of value proposition

10. pricing: here‟s what we changed
 Focus on low-end
Minimal Viable
Product
$5k retail
$200/day
rental

11. customer discovery: here‟s what we thought
(robot)

12. customer discovery: here‟s what we found

13. Total market size Target
Façade Inspection
Services $1B
Maybe 1/40 of market
spending diverted to
Min. $40 million spent per year in robots
NYC for gov’t compliance, at least
25x worldwide
$25M
Do our own inspections
NDT equipment
Frost & Sullivan, 2011 $100M+
$1B Our robots could
maybe take 1/50 of
market
$20M
$100M+
NDT services Do our own inspections
Frost & Sullivan, 2011
$2.5B $200M+
(and
growing
at 5%)

14. use cases: industrial inspection
Stainless steel storage tanks are non-
Magnetic inspection crawlers already in
magnetic, so current inspection is labor-
widespread use for storage tank inspection,
heavy: workers holding devices on poles.
especially for ultrasonic thickness tests
Robots would be cheaper

15. use cases: industrial inspection

16. from an industrial inspection
company:
“We currently have some extremely promising commercial
opportunities … and I would like to introduce your climber
… There are at least three such opportunities I am working
on right now. They are rather urgent … They have
applications now. The only thing they lack is a small
Climber that can be demo'd. And you have that NOW …
Their revenues are in excess of $200M and they would
want your Climber ideally to fully commercialize it and
scale it up.”

17. use cases: building inspection
• Mandatory façade
inspection in NYC,
Chicago, Phila, Boston,
Pitt, St. Louis, Detroit,
Columbus, Milwaukee
• Real-time video feed
• Follow cracks beyond
reach of scaffold
• Corner buildings: check
street-facing façades
where scaffold drop not
mandatory
• Cheaper way to do
thorough inspection where
some problems found
• Impact echo analysis

18. customers: building inspection
Rental: $150/day + $2500/yr membership
x 3000 inspections/year nationwide
x 2 days/inspection
(90 customers)
= $1.2M annual revenue
Work on economics
Payment flows

19. earlyvangelist

20. how to get there?
revenue <$100k $500k $2M $10M +
Non-destructive testing
high-end
Channel Customer
serious industrial
partnership in the discovery/
contracts product
works demos
$$ SERVICES $$
line
basic
commercial-
grade model
Open small Lobbying:
Pilot test with Iterate Mainstream Expand
rental/sales update
earlyvangelists product usage in outside
warehouse building
NYC NYC
code
Building inspection
funding SBIR and/or seed SBIR Phase II and/or angel Series A Series B

21. why not surveillance?

22. what about other wall-
climbers?
City Climber is:
• Patented
• Cheaper
• Simpler
• More reliable
• Better with rough
surfaces
• Best weight-to-payload

23. From ASTM standard E2270 - 05: 12.1.5 Document conditions of the facade so that it may be
compared with past or future observations to establish a rate of
deterioration.
Need building photos
Code: The methods used to examine the building shall permit a complete inspection of same.
Except as herein required, the use of a scaffold or other observation platform is preferred, but
the QEWI may use other methods of inspection as he/she deems appropriate. A physical
examination from a scaffold or other observation platform (a “close-up inspection”) is required for
a representative sample of the exterior wall. The QEWI shall determine what constitutes a
representative sample. The representative sample shall include at least one physical
examination along a path from grade to top of an exterior wall on a street front using at least one
scaffold drop or other observation platform configuration, including all setbacks.

24. March 21
KEY PARTNERS KEY ACTIVITIES VALUE CUSTOMER CUSTOMER
PROPOSITION RELATIONSHIPS SEGMENTS
• Manufacturers • Continuous R&D • Cost/risk • Personal support • Property
• Large civil • Manufacturing reduction: for major management
engineering firms • Sales and window customers companies
• Military marketing cleaning, • Automated • Property owners
painting, or support for • Window cleaners
building exterior cheaper models • Military
inspection • Communities for • Construction and
• Performance: research and engineers
Reach difficult hobbyists • Academic
KEY RESOURCES spaces for CHANNELS research and
surveillance hobbyists
• Human: (e.g. tunnels, • Direct sales • Municipalities
engineers skyscrapers) • Government • Solar farms
• Intellectual: IP • Newness: for grant-writing • Dry docks
• Financial: R&D research and • Website • Oil rigs
money hobbyists
COST STRUCTURE REVENUE STREAMS
• Research and development • Unit or bulk sales
• Sales and marketing • Leasing units
• Manufacturing • Direct contracts for window washing or inspection
• Cost of raw parts • Military/police/naval contracts
• Installation revenue
• IP License/royalties

25. March 22
KEY PARTNERS KEY ACTIVITIES VALUE CUSTOMER CUSTOMER
PROPOSITION RELATIONSHIPS SEGMENTS
• Manufacturers • Continuous R&D • Cost reduction: • Personal support • Government
• Large civil • Manufacturing replaces for major infrastructure
engineering firms • Sales and scaffolds customers inspection , esp.
• Military marketing • Risk reduction • Automated Bridges, dams
(Safety) support for • Nuclear power
• Speed cheaper models plants
improvement • Communities for • Property
• Performance: research and owners/managers/
Reach difficult hobbyists Third party
KEY RESOURCES spaces for CHANNELS evaluators
surveillance • Dry docks
• Human: • Rapid • Direct sales • Military
engineers deployment • Website • Construction
• Intellectual: IP • Newness: for • Indirect : via • Solar farms
• Financial: R&D research and partners • Broadcasters
money hobbyists • Window cleaners
COST STRUCTURE REVENUE STREAMS
• Research and development • Unit or bulk sales
• Sales and marketing • Leasing units
• Manufacturing • Direct contracts for inspection
• Cost of raw parts • Installation revenue
• IP License/royalties
• Military/police/naval contracts

26. March 28
KEY PARTNERS KEY ACTIVITIES VALUE CUSTOMER CUSTOMER
PROPOSITION RELATIONSHIPS SEGMENTS
• Manufacturers • Continuous R&D • Cost reduction: • Personal support • Building inspection
• NDT research • Manufacturing replaces for major and engineering
centers and labs • Sales and scaffolds customers companies
• Military marketing • Risk reduction • Automated • Non-destructive
• Large civil (Safety) support for testing service
engineering firms • Speed cheaper models providers
improvement • Government
• Performance: infrastructure
Reach difficult inspection , esp.
KEY RESOURCES spaces for CHANNELS Bridges, dams
surveillance • Website • Nuclear power
• Human: • Rapid • Indirect : via plants
engineers deployment partners
• Intellectual: IP • Indirect: NDT
• Financial: R&D equipment
money distributors
COST STRUCTURE REVENUE STREAMS
• Research and development • Unit or bulk sales
• Sales and marketing • Leasing units
• Manufacturing • Direct contracts for inspection
• Cost of raw parts • Installation revenue
• IP License/royalties

27. April 4
KEY PARTNERS KEY ACTIVITIES VALUE CUSTOMER CUSTOMER
PROPOSITION RELATIONSHIPS SEGMENTS
• Manufacturers • Continuous R&D • Cost reduction: • Personal support • Building inspection
• NDT research • Manufacturing replaces for major and engineering
centers and labs • Sales and scaffolds customers companies
• Military marketing • Risk reduction • Automated • Non-destructive
(Safety) support for testing service
• Speed cheaper models providers
improvement
• Performance:
Reach difficult
KEY RESOURCES spaces for CHANNELS
• •
surveillance
• Direct sales
Human:
engineers
Rapid
deployment
• NDT equipment
distributors
• Intellectual: IP
• Indirect : via
• Financial: R&D
partners
money
• Website
COST STRUCTURE REVENUE STREAMS
• Research and development • Unit or bulk sales
• Sales and marketing • Leasing units
• Manufacturing • Direct contracts for inspection
• Cost of raw parts • Installation revenue
• IP License/royalties

28. April 11
KEY PARTNERS KEY ACTIVITIES VALUE CUSTOMER CUSTOMER
PROPOSITION RELATIONSHIPS SEGMENTS
• Manufacturers • Continuous R&D • Cost reduction: • Personal support • Building inspection
• NDT research • Manufacturing replaces for major and engineering
centers and labs • Sales and scaffolds customers companies
• Military marketing • Risk reduction • Automated • Non-destructive
(Safety) support for testing service
• Speed cheaper models providers
improvement • Federal and State
• Performance: Departments of
Reach difficult Transportation
KEY RESOURCES spaces for CHANNELS
surveillance
• Human: • Rapid • Direct sales
engineers deployment • NDT equipment
• Intellectual: IP distributors
• Financial: R&D
money
COST STRUCTURE REVENUE STREAMS
• Research and development • Unit or bulk sales
• Sales and marketing • Leasing units
• Manufacturing • Direct contracts for inspection
• Cost of raw parts • IP License/royalties

29. April 18
KEY PARTNERS KEY ACTIVITIES VALUE CUSTOMER CUSTOMER
PROPOSITION RELATIONSHIPS SEGMENTS
• Manufacturers • Continuous R&D • Cost reduction: • Personal support • Building inspection
• NDT research • Manufacturing replaces for major and engineering
centers and labs • Sales and scaffolds customers companies
• Military marketing • Risk reduction • Automated • Non-destructive
(Safety) support for testing service
• Speed cheaper models providers
improvement • Federal and State
• Performance: Departments of
Reach difficult Transportation
KEY RESOURCES spaces for CHANNELS
surveillance
• Human: • Rapid • Direct sales
engineers deployment • NDT equipment
• Intellectual: IP distributors
• Financial: R&D
money
COST STRUCTURE REVENUE STREAMS
• Research and development • Unit or bulk sales
• Sales and marketing • Leasing units
• Manufacturing • Direct contracts for inspection
• Cost of raw parts • IP License/royalties

30. April 25
KEY PARTNERS KEY ACTIVITIES VALUE CUSTOMER CUSTOMER
PROPOSITION RELATIONSHIPS SEGMENTS
• Manufacturers • Continuous R&D • Cost reduction: • Personal support • Building inspection
• NDT research • Manufacturing replaces for major and engineering
centers and labs • Sales and scaffolds customers companies
• Scaffolding equip. marketing • Risk reduction • Automated • Non-destructive
distributors (Safety) support for testing service
• Component • Speed cheaper models providers
•
suppliers improvement • Federal and State
Robotics • Performance: Departments of
companies Reach difficult Transportation
(licensing) spaces for
• Military
KEY RESOURCES
surveillance
CHANNELS
• Human: • Rapid • Direct sales
engineers deployment • Scaffolding equip.
• Intellectual: IP distributors
• Financial: R&D • NDT equipment
money distributors
COST STRUCTURE REVENUE STREAMS
• Research and development • Unit or bulk sales
• Sales and marketing • Leasing units
• Manufacturing • Direct contracts for inspection
• Cost of raw parts • IP License/royalties