It´s a fact, People always touching the shopwindow, after you finished cleaning it.
Here, there is an innovation that could to solve this problem:
¨Windoro¨ is a window cleaning robot. It´s a PIRO´s development, the Pohang Institute of RObotic, in Korea.
For ¨Windoro¨ the goal is to keep clean the shopwindows, releasing the employees for this task.
Its consists of two modules similar in appearance, except that while one of the modules controls the movement, the other makes the dirty job, cleans the window using cloth wheels and detergent.
Both modules are moving together through the glass by magnets.
In my opinion it is a good initiative, a good development of technology but a very bad product, seeing it from the point of view of industrial design.
It surely depends on batteries to work. It needs attention from employees. It´s easy to steal. Its cost should be high. It makes your job relatively slow.
I believe that a better idea should be an axis system through which a single module to slides across the glass. Furthermore, this module could be of variable length extension to clean the entire glass in one stroke.
So, it would be programmed to perform periodic cleaning without requiring the operation of the employee.
To be more stable than the magnets could move faster through the glass.
It could be programmed to clean only critical areas of the glass.
It is definitely an interesting challenge for any industrial designer...
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