Roomba’s Big Brother
I’m sure everyone in the audience is aware of the Roomba, which vacuums floors with a minimum of human guidance. It is a machine well-suited for home maintenance tasks and feline transport. However, larger tasks, such as office building cleaning, are beyond its design and battery life.
For those of you who may have a office building in need of floor cleaning, there is a droid solution in the works. Fuji Heavy Industries and Sumitomo have issued a press release bout this droid which not only cleans the floors, but which will use the building’s elevator system to access each floor, eliminating the need for redundant cleaning systems on each floor.
‘Tenth Floor Please’ Says The Japanese Janitor Robot Stepping Into the Elevator (Gizmodo)
