Ed Selkow announced the launch of Scientific Maintenance Corporation (SMC), the world’s first robotic facility services company, on Friday 25 September at a meeting of the Tampa Innovation Alliance.

Selkow has 40 years experience in the commercial cleaning and maintenance industry and has shown a vested interest in robotics since the 1980s when he attended a robotics convention, and then published an article about robot janitors for a commercial real estate magazine.

Following the developments in robotic cleaning, he started a global networking group called Future Cleaning Technologies and published another article highlighting the current state of robotic technology in 2014.

While working as a consultant to the facility services industry, he assembled a team of experts from commercial real estate management, infection prevention and robotic engineering to reduce the cost of routine cleaning in office buildings, schools and hospitals.

“With the advent of technology enabled buildings, it simply means that robots will now join with current building cleaners and provide some daily services autonomously. We have several companies from around the country who have expressed an interest in merging their operations with ours, in order to insure their own place in the future of the building cleaning and maintenance industry,” commented Selkow.

ZoeeTheRobot is the digital spokesperson for SMC and is a real cleaning robot and will be sharing insights from Selkow and his team as they deploy robot janitors across the country.
www.scientificmaintenance.com