Swarming robot cleaner concept wins Design Lab 2013

by Larra Morris

Fancy coming home to find a swarm of flying mini robots doing your cleaning? That’s the futuristic picture of domestic bliss envisioned by young Colombian designer Adrian Perez Zapata, whose Mab concept has won this year’s Electrolux Design Lab competition.

Each year the Design Lab competition sees students from all over the world invited to submit futuristic and life changing appliance designs and concepts. In 2013, the competition was inundated with over 1,700 entries from 60 countries, focusing on the themes of Urban Living, Social Cooking, Natural Air and Effortless Cleaning.
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Swarming robot cleaner concept wins Design Lab 2013

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