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therawfeed.com - 12/2/2008

Students Build Window-Washing Robot

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Four MSU mechanical engineering students have invented what is essentially a Roomba for windows. No, not Microsoft Windows. Their "Winboni" robot cleans glass . The robot attaches to any window with a suction fan, and moves across the surface cleaning and scrubbing with felt pads. It runs ...

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dvice.com - 12/4/2008

University students take home award for automated window-cleaning robot

— dvice.com — A team of four engineering students from Michigan State University have created — and won an award... for — an automated window cleaner that requires a human to do no more than push a button to get it started. Called the Winboni, the ... (more) University students take home award for automated ...

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University students take home award for automated window-cleaning robot
DVICE Atom Feed — ... on both home and office buildings, just like a robotic vacuum cleaner. If the design was improved upon, we could very well see a successor of the Winboni cleaning every office building in the future. Teammates Emily Duszynski, Kyle Koepf, Jonathan Luckhardt and Joshua Thomet took first place in the International Student Design Competition of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Check out the video above to see how they did it. Media Newswire, via The Raw Feed

The Winboni is the Roomba of Window Washing [Robots]
Gizmodo — ... MSU first place in the International Student Design Competition of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. With one push of a button, the Winboni autonomously goes to work on your windows using a suction fan (to keep it attached to the window) along with some Windex and felt pads to do the washing. Obviously, the device is a little crude at the moment, but I can definitely see a team of tiny robots washing our windows somewhere down the line. [Media Newswire via The Raw Feed] ...

MSU's Winboni robot cleans windows, wins awards
Engadget — ... x 5-inch bot uses a fan to stick to the window (not unlike like Takara Tomy's wall-climbing AeroSpider, makes a great gift), and relies on two AA batteries to motor itself around the window, scrubbing all the while. We definitely like the concept and its promise of extra light for our dwellings, but until this thing can find a way to get from one pane to the next without us having to get out of our chairs we'll sadly have to keep squinting through the grime. [Via The Raw Feed] ...