The verified answer
As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies CUES: 1 model, 2 deployments across 2 regions, $189.0M raised. 1 source back the record.
Overview
CUES (Community Utility Equipment Supply) is a manufacturer of robotic pipeline inspection and rehabilitation equipment, founded in 1963 and headquartered in Orlando, Florida. The company builds CCTV sewer inspection cameras, robotic crawlers, lateral launch systems, pipe profiling tools, and the GraniteNet data acquisition software used by municipalities and contractors for buried infrastructure condition assessment.
CUES pioneered the first self-propelled sewer camera transporter (1984), the first pan-and-tilt mainline camera, and the LAMP II lateral-and-mainline inspection robot. Spx corporation acquired CUES parent ELXSI Corporation in 2018 for approximately USD 189 million.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 2 deployments on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Valuation of record
Company-claimedPriced roundAcquisition post-money
Key facts
Focus
Parent Company
Robot
Products
Technology
CEO
Parent company
Acquisition price
Revenue (2017)
Employees
Origin
Key innovation
Data & sources
Web sources
1
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Models (1)
View all models →Partnerships
Every company CUES has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1SPX Corporation1× joint
Most recent
- SPX Corporation acquires CUES2018-04-25with SPX Corporationoperating
CUES on the deployment map
View the global map2 verified deployments across 2 regions, newest verified Jun 2024. Explore where CUES's robots are operating, by place and type.
View the full CUES deployment record →
Relationships
Current leadership (1)
- Sandy Milley CEOsecondary-verified
Former / Previously (1)
- Ken Guthrie General Managersecondary-verified
Safety record
No incidents on record for CUES.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Operator customers (1)
- CUES2 deployments
Recent coverage
CUES in third-party press
Peer companies
- Roborock20 models
- Unitree Robotics10 models
- DJI7 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Gobio Robot6 models
- Orbbec6 models
Financial state
- Total funding
- $189.0M
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- growth
- Counterparty risk class
- moderate
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
1 total · 1 operating · 1 ended
Every company CUES has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- SPX Corporation acquires CUES2018-04-25with SPX Corporationoperating
Most-frequent partners
- 1SPX Corporation1× joint
All 1 partnerships
open in the atlas →- SPX Corporation acquires CUESwithSPX Corporationother2018-04-25concludedoperating
Funding rounds (1)
- Acquisition2018-04-25
$189M · $945M post
Investors: SPX Corporation (lead)
Acquisitions (1)
- acquired by SPX Corporationfull acquisition
Timeline
Every recorded move in CUES’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Funding roundAcquisition funding round
2018-04-25Acquisition raising $189000000
PartnershipSPX Corporation acquires CUES
2018-04-25SPX Corporation acquired CUES parent ELXSI Corporation for approximately USD 189 million. CUES now operates as a subsidiary within SPX's Detection and Measurement segment, continuing to manufacture pipeline inspection equipment from its Orlando, FL facility.
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 24, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJun 1, 2024
Ultra Shorty at United States (multiple hotel chains)
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJun 1, 2024
Ultra Shorty at Germany, Europe
Sources (1)
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Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for CUES.Peer companies
- Roborock20 models
- Unitree Robotics10 models
- DJI7 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Gobio Robot6 models
- Orbbec6 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning CUES from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
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Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/cues.md
- RSS feed: /companies/cues/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/5b35a923-5f8f-41bc-877c-8bd31d726a4c
- Revision history: /companies/cues/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Roborock20 models
- Unitree Robotics10 models
- DJI7 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Gobio Robot6 models
- Orbbec6 models
Video
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Heat Index
Category contender77/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
CUES draws attention at the 95th percentile but verifies reality at the 35th percentile among other robots. Hype Gap +60.1, 21st widest among other robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 2 verified deployments. Meaningful press and media coverage across the period. Deployment footprint remains limited relative to category peers.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 3, 2026