Winboni Sucks Dirt Off Windows
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Wednesday, 3 of December , 2008 at 2:32 am
Last week we posted about a micromouse that used vacuum power to stick to the floor as it races about at high speed. Students at Michigan State University used the same principle to create Winboni, a window cleaning robot, that uses suction to stick itself to windows and automatically drive around and clean them with felt pads.
The students won a prize for their design at the International Student Design Competition of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, which I guess means it must be good, but I don’t quite think that this is likely to be the Roomba of windows (Woomba?). Currently, the bot has to be placed on each window by hand, and I know my mom wouldn’t let me get away with cleaning windows without Windex or something. Not a bad little robot for 900 hours of work, though.
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Category: Competitive, DIY, Research
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Comment by Ironman
Made Wednesday, 3 of December , 2008 at 9:35 am
soon enough they’ll be cleaning everything, with absolutly amazing efficiency.
Comment by ironman
Made Wednesday, 3 of December , 2008 at 4:34 pm
if only it sucked the dirt off windows OS