# KEWAZO raises funding to accelerate LIFTBOT deployment in heavy industry - Date: 2026-03-19 - Category: Robotics The Crane Operator and the Robot: KEWAZO's Bet on Heavy Industry Artem Kuchukov spent years watching the same problem play out on construction sites and industrial plants across Russia and the United States: workers hoisting materials by hand, cranes backed up, schedules slipping, bodies at risk. ---