The city's skyscrapers are getting a high-tech window washing, one gleaming window at a time. The 45-story office tower at 1133 Avenue of the Americas has just made history as the world's first ...

If you have windows so large that you’re considering this $400 window-washing robot, congratulations on all your success. Me? I have regular windows. If this robot could talk, I have a feeling it ...

A unique robot window washer startup has just raised a whopping $6.5 million. Introducing Skyline, the company that aims to do the dangerous and dirty task of cleaning windows through the use of ...

Vacuum cleaning robots like the Roomba, LG Roboking, Electrolux Trilobyte and Neato XV-11 are already on dust patrol in countless homes around the world, saving people from untold hours of drudgery ...

A skyscraper window washer regularly ranks among the toughest jobs in the world. The role, which can pay an upward of $27 an hour, often requires workers to hang hundreds of feet above the ground. The ...

A Vancouver innovator is hoping to shake up the world of window cleaning. Hossein Kamali has developed a first-of-its-kind robot that can rappel buildings faster and safer than humans. The invention ...

Ever since Spider-Man made the leap from comics to blockbuster films, I’ve always associated window washers with the Marvel superhero. After all, they share many characteristics: They constantly climb ...

For those of you keeping score, we’ve got robots that clean our floors, robots that clean our grills, and robots that clean our windows using a suction-like magic overshadowed only by Spider-Man ...

Nick Savadian of Ecovacs Robotics demonstrates the company's new robotic window cleaning machine, and a veteran New York City window cleaner offers his thoughts. WSJ's Jackie Bischof reports. Clearing ...

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