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Probably more flexibility? A window cleaning type system only really works for a straight segment of wall, plus if you have a human doing it, it’s potentially d
by bobthepanda 2y ago
Probably more flexibility? A window cleaning type system only really works for a straight segment of wall, plus if you have a human doing it, it’s potentially dangerous if anything happens to the system during for example a sudden high wind event.
you could use one robot for this, but on a building like the empire state building you would need one for each level's 4+ sides of wall.
- kwhitefoot 2y agoThis would surely have a safety line if used in real life, no one would want it falling from ten storeys up onto a busy street. So it wouldn't have quite as much freedom of movement as it ha in the lab.
- bobthepanda 2y agoa safety line that can potentially move side to side still is quite a lot more flexibility than just going straight up and down. also, these things are like the size of an arduino board so i imagine they're cheap to deploy, and easy to replace. plus, if you have a fleet of them, you can probably just have some on standby ready to go, as opposed to a fixed window washing style system.
- kwhitefoot 2y ago> easy to replace. Replacement cost wasn't my concern, it landing at terminal velocity on someone's head was what I worry about.