Washing skyscraper windows regularly ranks among the world's toughest jobs. High wages and steep turnover rates have made the industry ripe for automation. An Israeli startup wants to replace those roles with robots, while still employing the same humans.
The role, which can pay an upward of $27 an hour, often requires workers to hang hundreds of feet above the ground. The high wages and steep turnover rates have made the industry ripe for automation.Israeli startup Skyline Robotics wants to replace those roles with robots, while employing the same people who currently hold those jobs."We're hiring the window cleaners," Yaron Schwarcz, CEO and Co-founder of Skyline, told CNN Business.
"Every obstacle that it might have, like a head bobbing out the window, the robot will self-correct and move around it so as not to break a window."Unlike humans, the robots need 3D maps to do their jobs. A surface plan of the building is entered into the system, which takes into account every ledge, bump and other obstacle a robot may encounter going up and down the structure. The filtration system Skyline Robotics uses requires no soap or Windex.
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