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Finally! A robot to clean your windows

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We’ve all heard of Roomba, the frisbee-sized vacuum robot. Until recently we thought this slightly egregious piece of technology was the end-all-be-all of home cleaning innovation. Then we met Winbot. Made by Ecovacs Robotics—a company boasting 300-500 engineers on staff at any given time—the similarly-sized window cleaning robot uses multiple motors and an array of sensors to navigate any window, inside or out, without any human assistance. Launched at CES earlier this month, we recently got the chance to see it in action at CH HQ, and after a few moments were pretty impressed by the near-autonomous little robot.
via Cool Hunting

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