# A Look at UnitX's Journey to $6.1B in Inspections

"UnitX has scaled to 820+ systems across 135 factories, inspecting $6.1B of products each year. Here’s how the team is transforming manufacturing with Robotics 2.0."

August 19, 2025

Welcome to the first edition of Robot Rundown’s Founders Spotlight, a series dedicated to showcasing the innovators shaping the [future of robotics](https://www.lucidbots.com/blog/best-commercial-drone-building-cleaning).

Today, we're featuring [**UnitX**](https://www.linkedin.com/company/unitxlabs/), a company that's gone from just a handful of images to inspecting billions of dollars in products.

Back in 2018, Keven Wang saw a massive gap in manufacturing quality control — slow, costly, and inconsistent inspections.

His answer? Build a robotics company that fuses AI, optics, and edge hardware to accelerate human productivity.

**Numbers:** Today, UnitX has 820+ systems running in 135+ factories worldwide, inspecting $6.1B of product annually.

**Products:** UnitX makes money from AI inspection platforms, software licenses, and service subscriptions. Their lineup includes FleX, an AI-powered inline inspection system that deploys in under a week, and GenX, a generative AI tool that can train defect detectors from as few as three images. Paired with software-defined imaging system, core AI brand and edge computing devices, these systems catch defects faster, with higher accuracy, and at massive scale.

**Coolest milestone:** Using their GenX system, with just 3 images, GenX will synthetic defect images. This will enhance the AI models training efficiency and enhance detection accuracy. It deployed at a Tier-1 EV battery line — slashing defect “escapes” by 9X.

**What’s next:** The Global FleX/GenX rollout with top-tier unicorn brands and systems integrator partners across automotive, EV, and electronics. The next 12 months are all about scaling worldwide.

**Funding:** UnitX has raised **$59M** to date — enough to put them in the upper tier of industrial AI players.

**Most misunderstood:** “We’re not just software—we’re a Robotics 2.0 company integrating AI, imaging system, and edge hardware”

**Founder tip:** “Design for deployment speed and reliability, prove ROI fast, and productize serviceability from day one.”

The robotics company is quietly positioning itself to redefine factory floors worldwide — and if they execute, this could be the kind of infrastructure play that’s hard to dislodge.

## About Lucid Bots
Founded in 2018, [**Lucid Bots**](https://lucidbots.com/) is an AI robotics company that is committed to uplifting humanity by building the world's most productive and responsible robots that can do dangerous and demanding tasks.

Headquartered in Charlotte, the company engineers, manufactures, and supports its products domestically, which include the Sherpa, a cleaning drone, and the Lavo, a pressure-washing robot.

Lucid Bots' products are elevating safety and efficiency for a growing number of customers around the world. Lucid is a Y Combinator-backed company, with investments from Cubit Capital, Idea Fund Partners, Danu Ventures, and others. Lucid Bots was recently recognized as the fastest growing robotics manufacturer in the United States.